I co-founded Entrepreneur First with Matt Clifford. EF is the world’s leading Talent Investor. We invest in exceptional individuals pre-company and help them build a startup from scratch. The companies that have been built through EF are now worth >$13bn. We’re backed by some of the world’s best investors and founders including Reid Hoffman and John and Patrick Collison. We are hiring – if you think you could be a Talent Investor, get in touch.
I’m also co-founder and on the board of Code First: Girls. We’ve taught >250,000 women and non-binary people to code, for free.
Matt and I wrote a book for individuals at the start of their founding careers called How to be a Founder. The accompanying podcast explores the questions and concerns founders have in their first 100 days.
I like writing about the earliest days of being a founder:
- Advice for European founders raising seed in the US
- Finding a secret – my Slush 2023 talk
- The Founding Career
- We’re giving the wrong advice to future founders
- Rejecting the Legible Career
- How to gain the right experience to be a founder
- In the future, you’ll reject your friend to cofound with a stranger
- On micro and macro happiness
- Why knowing you’re the exception to the rule matters
- Team norms – working with your cofounder
- Stop building a startup
Also autobiographies and biographies of female leaders that I’ve enjoyed.
You can also hear me on CNBC, TBPN, Invest Like the Best, Grey Matters and The Financial Times Tech Tonic.