The information from my ‘inside scoop’ comes from this story, which appeared on Ev’s own profile. It’s locked, hence the subtitle of my story. Only Medium members can read it. Maybe Arin Basu could use the link though

Our approach to member-only content

It explains the membership-partnership thing and has a link to the partnership program sign-up.

To be fair, they are making it sound like the one reason they are being a little secretive, is because they are launching with a limited number of participants. In essence, we’re beta testers.