Jaylen Brown leads guest

Jaylen Brown might want a respite from all the craziness around the Celtics trade rumors. Good thing he’s got a spot at MIT waiting for him.

Brown is one of three inaugural “Entrepreneurship Leadership Fellows” that the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship is bringing to campus this summer to help the 13 fledgling startups at its “delta v” accelerator program. Joining the C’s star will be former pro soccer player Lauren Holiday and former Netflix chief executive Marc Randolph.

Martin Trust Center managing director Bill Aulet says the program’s startups have already heard from some of Greater Boston’s prominent tech mensches such as Paul English, Dharmesh Shah, and Mitch Kapor, along with Klaviyo cofounders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen. (Bialecki and Hallen recently agreed to give $6 million to the center to bolster the delta v program, which offers $75,000 in stipends to each startup team this summer.)

The three fellows will talk with the accelerator participants about leadership and entrepreneurship, and Randolph has agreed to be a pen pal for founders, answering questions and providing advice.

Aulet says the fellows offer broader perspectives that could prove crucial for the delta v founders. Success in entrepreneurship depends heavily on being resilient — and Brown, Holiday, and Randolph know all about resiliency.

“We talk about being anti-fragile,” Aulet says. “Everyone thinks [running a startup] is simply an analytical experience. It’s so much more. It’s team building. It’s this anti-fragile mindset.”

The donation from the Klaviyo cofounders will help Aulet and Trust Center executive director Ana Bakshi build delta v into a program that aims to rival the much-touted Y Combinator in California. Unlike the for-profit Y Combinator, the delta v program doesn’t involve taking equity stakes in the startups; all the money that’s doled out comes with no strings attached.

“It’s going to be great for MIT,” Aulet says. “It’s going to be great for Boston.”

This is an installment of our weekly Bold Types column about the movers and shakers on Boston’s business scene.

Jon Chesto can be reached at jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him @jonchesto.