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The Family Directors share their views on entrepreneurship with you 😉   “In Good Company” is a live discussion, a spontaneous moment to discuss our thoughts on the tech startup world.   This time we talked about:  0:55 James Vincent, London-native, 2 decades working day-to-day with Steve Jobs, Brian Chesky and more  4:47 Storytelling in startups, helping founders find their story  12:15 Favorite storytellers  20:03 Utopia vs. dystopia in narratives  30:03 Creating human connections over Zoom  40:18 Calls from Steve Jobs at 7:00 am on Sunday  41:59 How entrepreneurs have changed over the years   🌎 Feel free to join us every Monday 6pm CEST.  📹 We’ll be streaming live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitch.    🔔 To be notified when we’re live, just subscribe to our YouTube Channel  👆 Our doors are open to daring founders willing to build global tech companies, wherever you’re from!  Apply for our next batch, starting in September: https://www.thefamily.co/apply   ABOUT THE FAMILY ✨  At The Family, we believe that tech entrepreneurship can build better societies. The Family is a long-term, minority shareholder dedicated to supporting ambitious founders in learning and building their businesses.  In the past 8+ years, we’ve been there for hundreds of startups and thousands of entrepreneurs as they’ve collectively raised over $800M and continued taking their startups to the next level.  Our portfolio includes companies quickly developing into market leaders such as Algolia, Payfit, and many more!

The Family Directors share their views on entrepreneurship with you!   “In Good Company” is a live discussion, a spontaneous moment to discuss our thoughts on the tech startup world.   🌎 Feel free to join us every Monday 6pm CET 📹 We’ll be streaming live on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. This week we talked about: 00:00 — Intro 03:07 — Unpredictable problems and the importance of adaptability 13:54 — Hiring, reference checks and diversity in your initial team 28:25 — Exits: the impact of how and who you sell your startup to 37:11 — When should you apply at The Family? 44:19 — The new social contract 50:08 — Raising a seed based on an idea and team 52:58 — Book recommendations for building your culture 56:17 — How to meet potential cofounders ABOUT THE FAMILY ✨ At The Family, we believe that tech entrepreneurship can build better societies. The Family is a long-term, minority shareholder dedicated to supporting ambitious founders in learning and building their businesses.   In the past 8+ years, we’ve been there for hundreds of startups and thousands of entrepreneurs as they’ve collectively raised over $800M and continued taking their startups to the next level.  Our portfolio includes companies quickly developing into market leaders such as Algolia, Payfit, and many more!

The Family Directors share their views on entrepreneurship with you 😉 “In Good Company” is a live discussion, a spontaneous moment to discuss our thoughts on the tech startup world.   This time we talked about: 01:17 — The Family’s transition to remote and new acceleration program 15:24 — GDPRFolder, privacy and regulation 36:02 — Boon.today , the first conscious and responsible advertising infrastructure 50:07 — Dark: launching rockets from planes and conquering space 01:02:33 — Unai, the hardware-as-a-service model & public subsidies 01:07:44 — GameStop, Robinhood and the impact it'll have on regulation 01:25:14 — Clubhouse's meteoric growth and Elon Musk   💬  This was the very 1st (and way too long) test run... and we’d love to get your feedback, opinions & comments! 🌎 Feel free to join us every Monday 5.30pm CEST.

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Lyle Fong's experience, pragmatism and passion in building things are truly contagious. He shared his insights about one of the key long-term success metrics of a startup: The ability to scale values and culture, going through his whole journey as a founder at Lithium ⚖️ ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Lyle has an outstanding experience: serial founder & now Partner at EQT. He’s been super active in Silicon Valley since the 1990s and just moved to London to get closer to our European ecosystem.  Gamers.com, Lithium Technologies (almost $200M raised in total, 600 employees, exit), Hobo Labs - these are the great startups that Lyle co-founded. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

Anyone asking you to work on a business plan while you’re still searching for a virtuous business model isn’t an investor you want. Who you raise money from is a key question - not every dollar is the same 💵  Good money comes when you can reverse the balance of power. Raising funds is like a mix between playing poker and buying a house. You need to go all in with your own cards. But you can’t keep a poker face in front of the landlord, because it could be a long-term relationship, and that should be based on honesty 🃏

What happens when you live with your co-founder, first employee and your girlfriend for 3 years? You apparently end up with one of the fastest growing companies EVER! 😁 If anyone ever told you that giant companies don’t come out of Europe, well PayFit is on the verge of changing that! Since their launch PayFit grew to 200 employees in just 3 years, moved from 40m2, to 200m2, to 2000m2 offices and raised more than €$100M Million🔥 And if you’ve ever seen somebody in love, thats how VCs look like when you mention serial entrepreneur, and CEO of PayFit, Firmin Only 26 years old Firmin is tackling one of the fastest and most convoluted industries - HR. According to Forbes the HR market is expected to be worth $30bn by 2025, and at the heart of all the incredible innovation is PayFit. 🚀 If that didn’t pop your eyes out 👀, here is another insane fact: to realise the insanity behind PayFit they invented their own programming language Jetlang. 👾 Harry Stebbings, partner at Stride and founder of The Twenty Minute VC joined us on stage to interview Firmin about his journey. Hope you enjoy it.

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Following courses from the best universities & companies in the world online, and even being able to get a degree from them, is now possible - thanks to Coursera.  This company is fully dedicated to transforming lives through learning. Having a good learning curve is one of the most important traits for success we see amongst entrepreneurs at The Family. The internet made it possible to access tons of information easily and freely online. However, hacking the system by giving access to world-class quality knowledge (you know, the same one rich people get in top universities) was still a big challenge to address to make education ever more inclusive. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Jeff Maggioncalda's background is phenomenal. Before joining Coursera as CEO two years ago, he co-founded Financial Engines, one of the biggest & hottest fintech companies in Silicon Valley at the time, together with the Nobel Prize in Economics winner Bill Sharpe; he then sold it for… $3B. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

There is only one CEO. And the CEO isn’t necessarily the smartest person in the room 🧠   It’s also not necessarily the person who had the idea: ideas have no value. The CEO is the person who you all agree has the ultimate responsibility, the person who is making the final decision.  People like the title of CEO but there are downsides as well: You have to be an excellent manager, and that’s hard. It’s hard to nourish all of the relationships within the company, to have open conversations when things aren’t going well, to personally handle the most difficult times in the life of a startup.  So one piece of advice: Always make the most sensible person on your team the CEO 👐

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Cyril talked about the pros & cons of our current internet stack: How was it built 30 years ago? Why and how it could be radically improved by entering the new phase of WEB3? We dived deep into why Blockchain and CryptoNetwork matter. Knowing how these technologies work is not an easy task, and it’s especially hard to figure out current & potential use cases. That was Cyril’s mission: Explaining to us how they will become a major component of the worldwide web in the next decades. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Cyril Paglino is a serial entrepreneur who now invests in blockchain-related technologies and projects. As General Partner at Starchain Capital and cofounder of The Garage, he’s highly aware of all the new stuff coming :) *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

Picture this 👉 earth is on the verge of extinction, in order to survive you travel with the remaining human survivors to an inhabitable planet. 🌍 There you need to build a new community and start a new life.  It seems quite probable, no? Don’t worry we are not there … yet. 😉   But for Mundi Vondi, CEO and co-founder of Klang, this scenario is not just a lingering thought. Together with his team, he has built a game called Seed, that would allow us to virtually live out this story. 👾  We are very excited to have Mundi at The Family. 🙌 He will share with us what it means to create games using new technology that allows for more players to exist in the same world, way beyond what has previously been possible.  Amongst other things, he will also discuss with us the structuring of the politics inside of Seed and what it means to build a virtual government. 🤓

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Mathieu, co-founder & CPO at Openclassrooms, is interviewed by Emilie Maret, ex-Fellowship at The Family. This time, the conversation wasn't really about one specific topic. They talked about his company's story, culture, the way he sees education, their business model and how he, personally, keeps continuously learning. Sparkles of experience & wisdom EVERYWHERE. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Mathieu Nebra is a local legend in France. He built "Le Site du Zéro" in 1999, online coding lessons for anyone willing to learn. He was one of the first people democratizing education online in France. Since then, it became OpenClassrooms, a fully-online educational platform helping anyone learn new skills & even get a diploma. After raising a $60M Series B last year, they are now focused on helping people getting jobs out of learning online. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

When you’re starting out, no one knows you, yet you have to convince your customers, employees, investors to believe in you. Everyone’s expecting you to step up, or fail! So how do you build trust? Meet an entrepreneur who's cracked this problem in one of the toughest industry to start with: Health. Dr. Sophie Chung is the CEO and founder of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that is providing patients worldwide access to high-quality affordable healthcare. In this talk, she shares the story and the mindset it required her to grow her startup from 0 to +4,000 patients per month across 25 countries. The secret to their early success?  Customer CARE. It's that simple.  From day 1, her approach was to move slow to move fast! When you’re small, you can afford to be true to your mission every step of the way. Qunomedical limited their offer to ensure they were providing the highest quality possible. Dr. Sophie Chung is the CEO and founder of Qunomedical, a digital health platform that is providing patients worldwide access to high-quality affordable healthcare. After earning her MD degree from Medical University of Vienna, Sophie gained first-hand experience in treating patients as a doctor in Australia and provided access to healthcare whilst working at an NGO in Cambodia. Prior to founding Junomedical in 2015, Sophie worked at digital health startup Zocdoc in New York, and for McKinsey & Company in Berlin.

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Going from 0 to 1 isn’t an achievement on its own, but nailing it from the beginning is necessary for greatness. Starting a company can take various forms and diametrically opposed directions. What are the first steps you should have in mind when you start? What are the right reflexes in terms of mindset and decisions to adopt from day 1 in order to maximize your chances of success?  You may have heard of booming startups such as Algolia, Payfit, Heetch or Agricool - well, Oussama has known them from their very first days. He also saw a lot of failures and tells us more about the key things he noticed that can be game changers at the very beginning of a startup. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based). *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Our events: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

ABOUT THE EPISODE: As a founder, everything you do should be informed by your "why", the mission you're set out to do. ✨ This helps you keep a clear strategy throughout, which in turn impacts how you define your KPIs and enact your culture. In this talk, Tao highlights important principles they followed at GYG which helped them keep an eye on the larger picture while executing for hyper-scale. 👊🏽  GetYourGuide is world's largest online platform for booking travel activities. 🎆 The founders got the idea when they were in university, spending the first years semi-bootstrapping and doing everything themselves. Today it's 15M monthly active users and $170 in total funding. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

ABOUT THE EPISODE: In this episode, Mathilde Collin, CEO at Front is being interviewed by Erika Batista, Director at The Family. They talked about a lot of different things: her journey as an entrepreneur, the way she structures and scales her team, and the value of discipline in entrepreneurship. Mathilde is really good went it comes to culture, management, rituals etc... She produces amazing content, especially articles, unveiling the secrets behind Front's success.  ABOUT THE SPEAKER:  Front helps teams bring all their communication channels (email, live chat, social media, SMS, voice & many other business apps like Salesforce & JIRA) into a single collaborative platform to manage all their conversations.  Wanna automate your workflow to act quicker? Wanna get a better view of every interaction to make better decisions? With Front, emailing has never been this smooth ⛵  They raised a $66M-Series B last year and are growing strongly without hurting their culture or organizational efficiency. Just look at their Glassdoor, their numbers speak for themselves.   *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

ABOUT THE EPISODE: As we've been moving away from old economic realities into the digital age, new solutions for broad-based social security are needed more than ever. It's time to redesign a social safety net which can provide security without getting in the way of progress - and yes, the tech community has a role to play in this shift! Our Co-founder Nicolas Colin wrote about it in his book Hedge: a Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age. Several months ago he joined us in Berlin for an exhilarating discussion around his findings together with Sandro Gianella, Head of European Public Policy at Stripe. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out the video of the talk here: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age w/ Nicolas Colin, Co-Founder at The Family & Sandro Gianella, Public Policy at Stripe Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Toxicity is everywhere, and your capacity to avoid it during the first two years of a startup matters a lot. When you don't focus early on on the things that actually provide value to your company like talking to your customers and building your product, you lose time. This loss and the lack of intensity associated with it can kill your dynamics and jeopardise your chances of success. Focus on the right stuff & choose wisely your investors. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Fred is a rockstar in the VC industry and a Partner at Stride.VC. He has been a board member for companies including Dailymotion, Deliveroo and PriceMinister.  He’s led many rounds and observed startups from early stages to global expansion. He gives us his unique take on how to survive the critical first 24 months as a startup. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out the video of the talk here: Surviving your first 24 months as a startup 🗝️ Fred Destin, Partner at Stride.VC Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

Sujay Tyle is the CEO of Frontier Car Group, one of the most underrated Berlin startups, and a hell of a founder (fun fact: he went to Harvard at 15 years old)! 😎  And he's moving fast. Actually, if you are used to Berlin bureaucracy speed, this might come as a shock: Frontier Car Group is boldly tackling Africa, Latin America and Asia by promising to sell used vehicles within 45 minutes -- paperwork included! 🤘  And by the way, the company just raised $58 million in funding and is pushing full steam ahead to expand their business. 🙌🏽  Curious about the challenges startups face when entering emerging markets? Lucky you Sujay Tyle (CEO at Frontier Car Group) and Balthazar De Lavergne (Director at The Family) are here to share valuable insights with us. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out the video of the talk here: Fireside Chat with Sujay Tyle, Founder at Frontier Car Group Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

ABOUT THE EPISODE: Being truly powerful has always involved masterfully exploiting leverage. Leveraging means using borrowed capital, labour or networks to increase the impact of one’s investments, financial or otherwise.  For most of human history, leverage was only accessible to those with physical force, or land, or networks, or capital. But leverage has never been as accessible as it is now.  Social media, software and the commoditization of capital have meant that one’s thought, one’s work and one’s financial investments can now be leveraged at essentially no cost. Write an article on Medium and within a day it can be read hundreds of thousands of times for free. Create a new SaaS product, and it can be sold to hundreds of clients, with almost no additional work. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based). *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Video of the talk here: A Brief History of Leverage and Power Our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Our events: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium

ABOUT THE EPISODE: As entrepreneurs we are always sharing our vision, the qualities of our product and sometimes even our own story. And that all falls into the art of sales! But how do we actually sell to large, complex organisations? How do we move forward with a deal? How do we navigate the procurement process? And how do we get a deal closed? To answer these questions and give us an insightful overview of what Sales actually is, we've invited Luca Bovone at The Family to share with us his art. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Luca Bovone is the founder and CEO of Habyt ex. PROJECTS, one of the leading co-living providers in Europe. Before launching Habyt, Luca was one of the first hires of Dropbox in Europe. There, after opening several markets in the SMB and Mid-market segments, he focused on selling into large-scale organisations, managing to close some of Dropbox's largest deals globally. *** Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co Check out the video of the talk here: The Art of Sales Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood  Check out our events here: The Family Events We also write amazing articles: Medium