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Entrepreneur First’s Founder On Indian Talent, AI Startups, Selling SaaS Globally And Silicon Valley Aug 2, 2024 · 54 mentions

• ▶ 0:46 Matt Clifford If you're an EF India founder, and you visit London, and you go into the office, I want you to walk into the building and be like, ah,
• ▶ 1:21 Siddhartha Ahluwalia He's the founder of Entrepreneur First.
• ▶ 2:52 Matt Clifford And I remember we, so we started entrepreneur first, or at least we left our jobs and, and we started working on the first version of the idea.
• ▶ 4:20 Matt Clifford Yeah, I mean, I, I was very lucky that at EF, we were very early to investing in, um, in AI companies. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 7:36 Matt Clifford You know, the fact that, you know, I remember like when we first started EF, we would get founders from the previous generation of internet companies to come in and talk to the entrepreneurs.
• ▶ 9:30 Matt Clifford And then, um, in the, at the end of the summer of 2011, we left to start Entrepreneur First. 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 12:36 Matt Clifford I mean, one of the, one of the things we encourage founders at EF today to do is to work on their edge. 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 16:02 Siddhartha Ahluwalia And how many companies would EF have invested in since the beginning? 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 23:08 Matt Clifford And then, you know, of those, I think historically something like 60% of seed from the companies EF have gone on to raise a series 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 27:19 Siddhartha Ahluwalia Do you have any geography that has dictated EF outcomes? 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 33:44 Matt Clifford And, you know, certainly EF companies always have, you know, a significant option pool for employees.
• ▶ 35:53 unnamed speaker And so actually one of the things that I think EF provides is a little, 6 times in the scene
• ▶ 38:52 unnamed speaker Um, so one of the things I do outside Entrepreneur 3 times in the scene
• ▶ 48:00 Matt Clifford And, you know, we're very lucky at EF that Demis was one of our earliest investors. 5 times in the scene
• ▶ 55:17 Siddhartha Ahluwalia I mean, like, when you started EF, probably that was the right time to enter into software because it was an open market. 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 58:44 Matt Clifford But I think, like, I do think that when I look at, you know, the Clios and the Tractables and, you know, there are other big EF companies like, you know, this one called Acurix that serves 99% of the UK, um, primary healthcare health… 2 times in the scene
• ▶ 1:00:20 Siddhartha Ahluwalia From what is happening right now in India, in the US, what is happening in AI, what is required to build a large company, your journey at EF. 2 times in the scene