Matt Clifford: Incubators Should Pick Exceptional 21-Year-Olds Over Good 31-Year-Olds
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Matt Clifford is the co-founder of talent investor Entrepreneur First. He discusses lessons learned about evaluating founder talent as EF scaled.
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“You got into the thing where it's very hard if you're new to what we do to compare the CV of like a thirty-one-year-old Who's actually good but not exceptional, and a 21 year old who's exceptional but has no experience, and choose the 21 year old. But you actually should choose the 21 year old.”
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