After reading a few comments I feel like there might be need for some clarification. The following is taken from my Quora post in the thread that I already link

After reading a few comments I feel like there might be need for some clarification. The following is taken from my Quora post in the thread that I already linked to: ---- snip ---- The StartupBus is a powerful filter for people. Participants are under pressure to communicate and work with a limited toolset and random strangers; most importantly they can't back out and leave. On top of that they must deal with mundane things like overflowing bathrooms, snoring people and all kinds of other muff. The people that are comfortable with all of the above constraints are almost always interesting, intelligent, successful (in many different ways) and exactly the kind of people that I'd like to work with. The other people don't even bother applying. Last year all participants got along great and the real value (e.g. this year's bigger, better event) was created only after the bus.