News Summary

• Max Harding and Skyler Ji were among 66 mostly young, mostly imaginative startup founders taking part in a two-week "incubator" workshop called Launchpad.
• The novel event was hosted by Stan, the company behind a moderately successful platform for independent creators to advertise and sell their services.
• At the incubator event, the entirety of which was filmed for use in a reality show that Stan plans to release sometime soon, magnetic personalities were among the most valuable commodities.
• "It's not the building that gets you to revenue, it's the distribution," said Stan cofounder Vitalii Dodonov.