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a16z Podcast | Building Tech Startups in a Place Where Tech Isn’t Everything
- ▶ 0:36 Michael Copeland And finally, Matt Clifford joins the pod, a co-founder of Entrepreneur First, which is an accelerator that has a twist on the whole thing by it identifying technical talent and then funding those people before they've actually started a…
- ▶ 1:52 Sonal Chokshi Matt, coming at it from your perspective, running Entrepreneur First, how do you view that? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:01 Matt Clifford Um, you know,
- ▶ 23:36 Matt Clifford The most important for us, entrepreneur first, has been that suddenly every PhD in computer science in the country is saying,
- ▶ 28:44 Sonal Chokshi Matt, what are you seeing, um, on the EF side?
- ▶ 30:25 Matt Clifford And what we've, what we've chosen to do at Entrepreneur First is to kind of abandon the, um, uh, the kind of mentorship model that some accelerators have where, you know, have a hundred names on a website and they'll come in for 15 minutes…
10 Years Too Early: On a Tech Career, Business, and Investing
- ▶ 10:01 unnamed speaker So a big part of our thesis that EF is about backing technologists and saying actually something that in the Valley is extremely obvious, but maybe historically less so in Europe, which is some of the best founders are tech founders. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:31 unnamed speaker So shifting away slightly from trends to more company building, um, I think what EF does phenomenally well is bring teams together, so maybe you can speak a little bit about what you view as a kind of cohesive complementary team, and kind… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:53 unnamed speaker Look, the world is getting flat on entrepreneurship, and there is no one region that has a monopoly on all of the great talent, which is why 500 Startups, why EF, there are all of these organizations around the world that are training a…
- ▶ 30:47 unnamed speaker We're, uh, EF company doing a lot of enterprise B to B sales.