Prop strategies

What are the requirements to run a strategy at prop firms like Jump/Tower/etc.? Sharpe, yearly Pnl.

Assuming relatively high Sharpe and alpha is not large enough to fit Millennium/Citadel/BAM/P72/Exodus.

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