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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 31:40 Harry Stebbings That the best talent just wants to go there, and talent follows talent, and you're seeing the fucking founder of Monzo, a multi-billion dollar bank in the UK go there from YC as a partner, Matt Clifford, you know, the founder of EF, which…
Anthropic’s $10B Raise | a16z’s $15B Fund: Is the Middle Dead in VC? | How OpenAI Could Go to Zero? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 52:11 unnamed speaker So inception's in me and maybe there'll be a new fund pre EF that, that locks up the pre inception market.
OpenAI’s $6BN Jony Ive Deal & YC Is Both Chanel and Walmart, and Has Officially Won! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 56:30 Jason Lemkin I mean, EF, EF is hybrid now, isn't it? 4 times in the scene
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 20:48 Jason Lemkin To me, it was just, I was at, um, I was at EF's demo day a couple of weeks back, uh, in the US, and I saw one of my LPs there who had retired, but one of the best foundation, like, you know, all the LPs, I don't, okay?
Benchmark vs a16z: Why Stage Specific Firms Win · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:15 Jason Lemkin Vinod said this so many times until I was at EF did a demo day out here and I watched the note again after building our AI with 130,000.
Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 45:20 Reid Hoffman I mean, this is part of the thing of, you know, occasionally, since, you know, as part of my support for Entrepreneur First, I meet with these entrepreneurs.
Laela Sturdy: Life Inside Alphabet's $7BN Growth Fund | E1190 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:20 Harry Stebbings Because we had Matt Clifford from EF on the show, who's the entrepreneur first, the second largest, I guess, incubator compared to Y Combinator.
Kevin Hartz: "How I Lost Airbnb at Seed Because of an Exploding Term Sheet" | E1180 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:29 Harry Stebbings I had Matt Clifford from EF. 2 times in the scene
Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:18 Matt Clifford We believe one of our kind of cool ways that we evaluate founders entrepreneur first is that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.
- ▶ 36:49 Matt Clifford What I mean by that is, I would love it that when, you know, a 20 VC company or an EF company goes public, that the, you know, the pools of capital that own that company are my mom and dad's, you know, West Yorkshire pension fund.
- ▶ 45:22 Matt Clifford Really pivot my time within EAF to working on defensive technologies is, I think there's an amazing commercial opportunity there, but I also think it's what the world needs.
- ▶ 51:18 Matt Clifford It probably is in the Bay Area, but you know, like, I remember when we started EF, um, um, well, yeah, but this is the point, right, is that the reason that I think there's a huge opportunity in the UK and in Europe and in India where,…
- ▶ 54:10 Matt Clifford When, when I start, you know, like, when I started visiting university campuses properly, when, when Alice and I started EF, um, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:35 Harry Stebbings What did EF get most wrong in your assumptions on talent? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:14 Matt Clifford He did, you know, he was, he was one of the first investors in the EF.
Reid Hoffman: The Future of TikTok and The Inflection AI Deal | E1163 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 54:17 Reid Hoffman You know, um, it was, he did a very strong public service by stepping out, ah, from his entrepreneur first role, temporarily, to go and help the country set up the, you know, the AI safety institute.
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:06:53 Jason Lemkin It doesn't even work for EF or certainly anybody else.
Tom Blomfield: Do the Best All Raise Pre-Demo Day & YC's Fundraising Advice to Startups | E 1152 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:42 Harry Stebbings So funny, because like, you know, EF have been touting that, hey, mindsets have changed, mindsets have changed.
20VC: Lessons from 150 Angel Investments into the likes of Carta, Gusto, Airtable and Superhuman, Creating Algorithms and Models For Investing At Seed & Why Younger Investors Have An Advantage When It Comes To Finding Deals Early with Jude Gomila, Angel I
- ▶ 18:54 Jude Gomila From an algorithm's perspective in investing, human perspective is not changing as much, and that's why maybe you can say things like Entrepreneur First have really deep angle, because they're focusing in on the part that doesn't change so…
20VC: Why The Whole Industry Is Backward Looking, The Best Funds Are Entrepreneur Led and Venture Is All About Access with Alex Bangash, Founder @ Trusted Insight
- ▶ 10:48 Alex Bangash I think in, you know, AngelList and others, so there is a structural advantage that platforms like AngelList and Y Combinator and, um, Entrepreneur First and others,
20VC: Why More People Should Be Entrepreneurs & How Do You Know When You Are Ready with Matt Clifford @ Entrepreneur First
- ▶ 0:14 Harry Stebbings However, on with the show today, and I'm thrilled to welcome Matt Clifford, founder and CEO at Entrepreneur First, Europe's leading pre-seed investment program for founders of deep tech startups. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07 Harry Stebbings However, back to the show today, and I'm delighted to be joined by the main man, Matt Clifford at Entrepreneur First.
- ▶ 2:43 Harry Stebbings So what caused the pivotal shift to founding Entrepreneur First, and what was that aha moment for you? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:07 Harry Stebbings And I want to start off then with a brief synopsis of, of entrepreneur first, or EF as we might refer to it today. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:20 Matt Clifford I mean, we, we've often talked at Entrepreneur First about, um, your, your abilities as a founder are something that you discover by being a founder.
- ▶ 11:12 Matt Clifford I mean, we, we really live and breathe rapid iteration on Entrepreneur First. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:45 Harry Stebbings I'm really intrigued that we, we spoke about ideas and this isn't in the schedule, but I'm, I'm fascinated by it because obviously as we said with the FP in entrepreneurs and amazing individuals come without ideas in some cases, how do you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:18 Matt Clifford I think probably one of the mistakes that we made at the start of, um, this process of building Entrepreneur First was we probably overrated raw intellect.
- ▶ 16:50 Harry Stebbings And I want to touch on one final thing on entrepreneurship before we dive into a future of EF aspect.
- ▶ 18:10 Harry Stebbings And I want to finish then on the future of EF this before we dive into a quick fire and you're expanding into Singapore. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:37 Matt Clifford We've not yet had an EF company work in that space, but I believe that over the next 10 years we will see startups 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:57 Harry Stebbings Yours and EF's incredible journey, so thank you for sharing it with us. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Raising A Solo GP Fund & Why They Are So Prominent Today with Charles Hudson, Managing Partner @ Precursor Ventures
- ▶ 27:42 Harry Stebbings Founder and CEO at Entrepreneur First, one of the world's most exciting accelerators who accept founders pre-product.
20VC: Europe's Youngest Series A Venture Partner, James Wise @ Balderton Capital on How To Get Into Venture & What The Future Of The VC Industry Looks Like
- ▶ 33:31 James Wise And it's a machine learning approach to, uh, working over video compression.
20VC: James Cameron @ Accel on Building Great Startup Communities and The Rise of Enterprise and Cyber Security Software
- ▶ 8:29 James Cameron You know, guys, Seacamp, guys like, um, One Minute First here in London, um, and even sort of in the emerging areas in Spain, guys like Plug and Play and Seedrocker.
20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Doug founded numerous internet companies which have achieved millions of unique visitors per day before moving into the investing world, where he has made investments in the likes of Techstars, Entrepreneurs First, and Ignite.io.
- ▶ 18:54 Doug Scott I'm an investor in Entrepreneurs First, Techstars, and Ignite in Newcastle.
20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones
- ▶ 23:12 Thomas Jones If that means getting involved in a, a program like Entrepreneur First, uh, or Seed Camp or Techstars, then that's good.