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Disney Invites Applications for 2022 Disney Accelerator Program

by frostmatthew on 4/22/22, 7:45 PM with 22 comments

• by madrox on 4/22/22, 9:11 PM

  As someone with some knowledge of the accelerator, I'd describe it as a preferred partner program. I'd only recommend it to series B or beyond. The kinds of mentorship you'll get won't be very relevant to a startup. You won't learn about building companies and you won't gain much of a professional network to raise or sell to, but you'll get meetings with any part of Disney you want to pitch to for a partnership. For the right company that can be huge, like Sphero building BB-8. I'm unfamiliar with their terms.

• by joemazerino on 4/22/22, 8:57 PM

  Turn on dead comments if you want a good chuckle.

  I wasn't aware Epic games was a part of Disney's accelerator program. How does it compare to YCom?

• by programmarchy on 4/22/22, 10:08 PM

  One company this worked out really well for was Sphero. Their robot toy had been on the market a couple years, and they joined the accelerator right before the new Star Wars movie came out with the BB-8, which was a match made in heaven. So if your product could benefit from licensing deals, then the Disney accelerator could be helpful for making those connections.

• by SecurityMinded on 4/26/22, 12:49 AM

  What are these people going to accelerate ? How to talk gender identity to 5 year old children? Or how pedophilia is acceptable? Comic at best

• by protomyth on 4/22/22, 9:12 PM

  I still cannot help but think they have a deep mistrust of software given their digital efforts other than Pixar. Letting EA do it versus continuing Lucas Arts doesn't seem to be isolated.

• by DiabloD3 on 4/22/22, 9:39 PM

  Man, the dead comments here are wild.

  Are there people who believe Disney is somehow pro-LGBT? They're a corporation: they're anti-LGBT and pro-money; the only time they seem to be pro-LGBT is when they think there is a monetary advantage to seem that way.

  The only reason Disney is against the Florida "Don't Say Gay" bill is because this might cost them a fraction of a percent of their revenue. Note: they cut anything that can be misconstrued as gay-friendly content entirely for anti-LGBT foreign markets, such as China.

  Disney does not care about you, or anyone else. They care about money. They are an entertainment company, and the largest one in the world, and they want to turn your money into their money as efficiently and quickly as possible; no matter if you are LGBT or not, your money is still green.

  They are not, however, pedophiles, nor do they support some sort of pedophile agenda. Anyone who claims to believe that doth protest too much.

• by xyzzy21 on 4/23/22, 12:45 AM

  But first you have to give your pronouns and prove you aren't white!