Uplift Mentorship Onboarding 2 - Hopper

​Your program orientation session. Covers program expectations, mentor matching, community guidelines, and how to get the most from your 9 weeks.

​Cohort 2 — Grace Hopper

​Computer-science pioneer who worked at Sperry Rand in Bloomfield, NJ. Hopper invented the first compiler and was a driving force behind COBOL — the language that made modern business computing possible.

​The builders' cohort. Heavy on Enterprise SaaS / B2B and MVP-stage founders constructing real product infrastructure. Hopper believed in building the tools that let everyone else build. Her famous line — "It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission" — fits the spirit of an MVP cohort shipping into the world