A CS student graduating from Cambridge usually has numerous job offers for GBP 45k+ or USD 100k+, promising a safe, stable lifestyle. Going down the startup rou

A CS student graduating from Cambridge usually has numerous job offers for GBP 45k+ or USD 100k+, promising a safe, stable lifestyle. Going down the startup route with no team, no idea, and funding of only 10-20k to live and develop a business in London for an entire year is still massively risky. Programs like EF are simply helping manage that risk, and increase the chances of success by providing the right mentorship, peers and support environment. And of course, appetite for risk is not the only great quality in startup founders, so if you give the intelligent, capable people with smaller risk appetites who would have normally chosen the safer route, the opportunity to work on their own company, it isn't unfeasible to imagine they might succeed.