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H.B.R. presents.

Hi there, I'm Azimazar and you're listening to my exponential view podcast. Every week I come together with a brilliant mind to discuss how technology is shaping our world

and what it promises both good and bad for our future. If you would like to support us, I have one small

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Now my guest today thinks deeply about innovation and puts his vision into practice.

Matt Clifford co-founded entrepreneur first, a London-based accelerator in 2011 and it has since expanded its operations to Berlin, Paris, Bangalore,

Singapore and Hong Kong helping to found well over 200 companies.

Matt, welcome to exponential view.

It's great to be here.

Thanks for having me.

I know you and your co-founder, Alice Benting quite well.

But just to sort of fill your background story of entrepreneur first, the two of you met at

McKinsey, you joined on the same day and you bonded over your shared disappointment about the corporate

culture and it was a wonderful chance meeting the kind of story from which

tech myths are made. But entrepreneur first was in a sense almost founded against the myth of the

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