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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

Rethinking the Innovation Ecosystem

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View

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🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Starting a company with a stranger is not the traditional path for many entrepreneurs, but this is one of the basic principles of Entrepreneur First (EF), the world’s leading talent investor. Matt Clifford, EF’s CEO and co-founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explain why he invests in founders before they have a business idea and other novel approaches to venture capital and innovation.

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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

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

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

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

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Matt, welcome to exponential view.

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It's great to be here.

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Thanks for having me.

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

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

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

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

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

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