The Founder's Mindset – Details, episodes & analysis

In the final episode of season 3, Alice and Gena reflect on the five conversations they've shared.

We hope you’ve found these conversations as valuable and thought-provoking as we have.

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In this episode Gena and Alice had the pleasure of speaking with David Booth, the founder and CEO of OnDeck—a curated community designed to increase your odds of building a successful venture-backed company.

Now, if you're thinking that sounds a bit similar to Entrepreneur First's mission, you wouldn't be far wrong. Both organizations share a belief that the world is missing out on some of its best founders, and a passion for catalyzing globally important companies by reducing the barriers for the world's smartest and most ambitious people to go and found them. 

In this conversation Alice, Gena and David talked about how David's parents raised him to be entrepreneurial from an early age, why founders need community before they need advice, the mistake of seeking external validation and credentialism as a way of outsourcing your own judgment of readiness, and much more. 

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Victor and Aswin, co-founders of Theo, have an ambitious goal: to revolutionise delivery using semi-autonomous robots. The team are moving at lightning pace.

But it’s not always been easy to get investors to buy into their bold vision of the future.

They join psychologist Dr Gena Gorlin to explore how they’ve been able to keep their convictions strong in the face of all the noes. Gena and co-host Alice Bentinck reflect on the conversation throughout, pulling out valuable learnings for other ambitious founders.

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We’re kicking off Season 2 with an extra-special episode, as Entrepreneur First’s co-founders Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford share what they’ve learned about themselves and their partnership over 10 years and $10B+ of portfolio value.

In this season, we’ll be featuring a wide range of guests from every stage of the founding journey, from pre-seed, to exit, and beyond. Through these conversations, we’ll get inside the head and heart of our guests, extracting insights that you can apply to your own journey as we go.

Today, Dr Gena Gorlin speaks with Alice, along with her co-founder Matt, to learn about their journeys as co-founders of Entrepreneur First.

It’s been ten years since they both left their jobs at McKinsey to start EF. Since, they’ve produced over 500 companies worth over $10B. In June 2022, Alice and Matt announced the raise of EF's $158M Series C to power the next generation of founders.

So it doesn’t look like things will be slowing down anytime soon.

EF has become a world-leading authority in how to find the right co-founder and build a globally important company.

But what about the co-founders of EF themselves? Has it always been smooth sailing for Matt and Alice? What have they learned about themselves and each other along the way? And how do you learn to trust somebody enough to build your life’s work together?

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In this episode, Alice and Gena summarise their learnings from this season on The Founder's Mindset and give their advice for future entrepreneurs.

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There's plenty to learn from anyone who has been through the founder process, but what about someone who has gone through the journey twice? Camin McCluskey tells us about his experience in this episode of The Founder's Mindset.

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Not every co-founding relationship lasts forever, and on this episode of The Founder’s Mindset, Sidsel Løschenkohl tells us why that’s okay.

Each week, Gena will be talking to a different guest at various stages of their start-up journey. Then Alice and Gena will be debriefing on the session, taking away valuable learnings which you can apply to your own founder experience.

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What makes a great team? In this episode, we hear from Kit Logan and Charlie Leggate, the co-founders behind the fitness app, Avie. They talk to Gena about how great co-founder relationships often rely on working on your own insecurities first.

Each week, Gena will be talking to a different guest at various stages of their start-up journey. Then Alice and Gena will be debriefing on the session, taking away valuable learnings which you can apply to your own founder experience.

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In this episode of The Founder’s Mindset, we speak to Britta Srivas. She talked to Dr Gena Gorlin about how she hit the reset button on her EF journey after identifying and overcoming her validation seeking tendencies.

Each week, Gena will be talking to a different guest at various stages of their start-up journey. Then Alice and Gena will be debriefing on the session, taking away valuable learnings which you can apply to your own founder experience.

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Thank you to Cofruition for consulting on and producing the show.

Welcome to the first episode of The Founder’s Mindset, the podcast where we find out how to better understand the way our minds work in the early days of founding a company.

Throughout this series, Alice Bentinck and Dr Gena Gorlin will be exploring common mental challenges that founders face. Each week, Gena will be talking to a different guest at various stages of their start-up journey. Then Alice and Gena will be debriefing on the session, taking away valuable learnings which you can apply to your own founder experience.

When Gena first met Fabien Koutchekian, he was struggling to communicate the magnitude of his business to investors. Throughout his EF journey, he learned the value of openness and honesty, which is what we explore in this week’s episode.

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