S2E14 - Alice Bentinck, Co-Founder @ Entrepreneur First

Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | Technology

English - September 03, 2021 06:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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Alice Bentinck MBE is one of the co-founders of Entrepreneur First, one of the world's leading talent investors that helps people develop their startup ideas. Away from EF Alice is also one of the founders of Code First: Girls, an organisation which offers free web programming courses for women in university. In 2015 Alice was named one of the Fifty Most Inspiring Women in European Tech by Inspiring Fifty.

James and Hector sat down with the former McKinsey Management Consultant to discuss what drove her to launch her own business, what Entrepreneur First looks for in potential founders and why it is important to adapt to different business cultures when expanding globally.

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