Agree 100%. As someone who's been through the program, I can attest that it's an amazing experience, and people behind it do a remarkable job of upping their game even more from session to session. I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing the companies that come out of it in the years to come.

Seeing as they take no equity and provide a ton of value, it really should be a no-brainer for any team with a founder with a Stanford affiliation to apply.

I tend to agree with your comment, it does seem to be well focused on founder growth rather than being a strict high risk / high growth investment vehicle.

My issue is that every time I see the headline 'StartX demo' I see this picture of someone at the console of a workstation demonstrating that when you type 'startx' all these giant rows of characters go away and are replaced by this really cool window system.