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Three and a Half Founders

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30 April, 2019

LEAVING A JOB I LOVED TO FOUND A COMPANY | Entrepreneur First

'The co-founding relationship I had before wasn't as valuable' - Tomide Adesanmi | TAAHF Episode #2

The importance of knowing when to let an idea go - Stacy-Ann Sinclair | TAAHF Episode #3

Two tips for pitching to investors - Yassir Al-Refaie | TAAHF Episode #4

How to choose your investors - Stacy-Ann Sinclair | TAAHF Episode #5

Why I don't react to negative situations - Tomide Adesanmi | TAAHF Episode #1

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Three and a Half Founders is a podcast designed to give you the insider’s view of starting a globally important company.

The show features roundtable discussions with four EF London 10 cohort members – Stacy-Ann Sinclair of CodeREG, Greg Lawton of Nodes & Links, Tomide Adesanmi of CircuitMind and Yassir Al-Refaie of Seyo – about everything from generating ideas and finding product market fit to finding the right co founder and raising money from VCs.

In this podcast

Three and a Half Founders

Stacy-Ann Sinclair

Developer, previously worked in tier one investment banks

Tomide Adesanmi

CEO, Circuit Mind

Electronics engineer, Master's from University of Leeds

Yassir Al-Refaie

MSc in IC Design, youngest department head in former company's history

Greg Lawton

CEO, Nodes & Links

Astrophysicist with experience managing defence programmes and in BAE systems

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