Launch your career like a founder launches a company.
You're the founder. Your career is the venture. The Vantage Career Accelerator is an eight-week cohort program that teaches college students the same process founders use to launch companies, applied to launching you.
FELLOWSHIP
8 wks
Now forming
FORMAT
Live + 1:1
Every week
COMMITMENT
5+ hrs
Per week
APPLICATIONS
Rolling
Dan reads every one
SEATS
Limited
Application only
Most students send applications and hope. Founders run a process.
Your first job won't come from a job board.
Career services teaches résumés. AI tools promise automation. None of it gives you the actual playbook for finding work that fits, because the playbook lives with founders and operators who figured it out for themselves.
That's what this program brings. The same process founders use to launch a company, applied to launching you.
Four things make it work.
Workshops, not lectures
A small, application-only cohort that learns by building, and challenges each other along the way.
A proven entrepreneurial framework
The same process founders use to launch companies, applied to launching you.
AI woven through every module
AI as the working environment, not a topic. You'll use the tools the way real operators use them.
Personalized 1:1 coaching
A weekly 1:1 where your work gets pressure-tested and refined.
8 weeks. 8 modules. One clear path.
Each module answers a real question every college student has. Each one ends with a concrete output you keep.
Self
Market discovery
Target + AI fit
Experiment design
Story + brand
Network + pipeline
Career math
Board of advisors
The founding cohort's numbers.
Students say it best.
Two weeks ago I was so indecisive I couldn't pick. Now I feel secure in the path I've chosen. What I'm taking away most is to really figure out yourself before you go and do anything.
I'm learning so much more than I had in the three years I've been at college. No professor has ever put this level of getting into it with you. It's never been this personal.
It's such a good group. Everyone is so motivated. Being around these guys, hearing what they're working on and getting their pushback on ideas, is really motivating.
Dan Sommer
Founder of Trilogy Education, acquired for $750M. A workforce accelerator that powered skills programs at 50+ universities across 7 countries, helping tens of thousands of people change careers.
Dan has spent more than 30 years as an entrepreneur, building companies centered on how people learn, work, and grow. Now he's coaching students directly, in person: the same entrepreneurial process, pointed at the venture that matters most.
Stop hoping. Start running a process.
Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Dan reads every one personally. No résumé required.