Hi Marak! I’m Fouad and I work at Segment, specifically on this program.<p>To provide a bit of additional context, we launched the program on March 23rd (which closed on May 8th), received 285 applications, and then selected four of them as fellows on June 20th. We notified everyone that had applied that day.<p>From there, we still had to coordinate the final logistics with the fellows who were selected. A few were at full-time jobs and needed time to coordinate long-term sabbaticals, so we’ve had to delay the announcement on the selection process.<p>As far as why you weren’t contacted, this is totally my fault and an honest mistake. Even though the deadline was May 8th, we still had an ‘apply late’ form that was able to submit applications for late participants. However, nobody was monitoring the form after June 20th since we’d already accepted the fellows and were still figuring out the logistics with them. I just checked your application and it came in on June 21st.<p>I’m really sorry about that, we’ll do better here next time–I honestly feel terrible for botching the logistics, and can totally understand the frustration. For what it’s worth, nobody had seen your application until now, and I removed the application form earlier today to ensure this mistake doesn’t happen again.<p>Happy to answer other questions here or at open@segment.com, we’ll be announcing the four fellows in September.