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ACG enables startups to gain deeper insights into Gen-Z ideology, product vision, and need cost-effectively, while enhancing students’ professional networks and consulting experience.
ACG’s vision is to give students across the nation an opportunity to explore startups and product while offering consumer tech Founders instant insight into the needs and ideas of today’s young adults.
Will began his career three years ago as the Co-Founder of Patience Finance, a FinTech mobile app built to simplify strategic investing for novice investors. After raising capital, recruiting a development team, and building a minimum viable product, he began marketing his product on campus. In the coming months, Will began helping other Founders develop marketing plans on campus and later providing guidance on student needs and feature development. Keeping this in mind, he moved on to hire and lead a 30 student product strategy and go-to-market team for a consumer AI company. After a successful launch and months of student guided product iteration that company now has 250k users and is in Y-Combinator this Summer. These experiences are the basis for ACG; Will's mission to provide students across the country with the same unlikely experiences he has had.
Mac has always had bias for giving back to his community and soon after developed strong product sense. He began his career Founding a California 501(c)(3) non profit focused on helping less fortunate families in his local community; ultimately helping hundreds. In college, he began working with tech startups on campus where he met Will. Quickly, Mac earned a leadership role at a venture backed startup directing the product's launch at campuses across the country. In order to launch successfully, he built and leveraging a network of 100+ students across the country. This experience uncovered the pains, costs, and distractions Founders face when trying to learn from and market to students on campus. ACG aims to solve this problem, providing simple, on demand access to students nationwide so Founders can build with confidence and stay focused on their product.
Rick Bennet Sines
Founding Chapter President – UCSB