What Drives The Best Founders? w/ Alice Bentinck

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About Alice:

Alice co-founded Entrepreneur First with Matt Clifford. EF is the world’s leading Talent Investor. EF invests in exceptional individuals pre-company and help them build a startup from scratch. The companies that have been built through EF are now worth more than $10bn. They are backed by some of the world’s best investors and founders including Reid Hoffman and John and Patrick Collison.

Alice is also the co-founder and on the board of Code First: Girls. They've taught 100,000 women and non-binary people to code, for free.

In this episode, we talk about Money, Power, Fame --- What Drives The Best Founders?

+ so much unheard advice for young people

(00:00) intro + @doolaHQ 👀👀

(02:45) Who is @Alicebentinck?!

+ how she built @join_ef w/ @matthewclifford

(05:40) Obsession as a founder

(09:42) How should young ambitious people start building stuff without being surrounded by ambitious people? be the convening power!

(16:42) How to deal with people that don't believe in you?

(23:38) How long should you work on something before giving up?

(24:52) How to pivot well?

(28:07) Is @Alicebentinck a mercenary or missionary founder?

(29:17) What drives the best founders? Why??

(37:01) What drives you? Money, Power or Fame?

(37:45) Does power drive ego? (the good kind and the bad kind)

(40:04) Every founder is not an entrepreneur!

Enjoy!