Pete Flint - Founder NFX (part 2)

Pete Flint, part of the founding team of lastminute.com and Trulia joins us in the second half of this episode to discuss the 48 hours where he met Steve Jobs and Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital.

How he had to change mindset when transitioning to an investor from being a founder, demonstrating no matter what you have achieved an agile mindset is very important.

In addition, we discuss how modern day entrepreneurship is similar to the geographical explorers like Shackleton of centuries gone by.

He has recently written a brilliant essay on the NFX website on how to 10X your career, you can check out that piece here which we talk a lot about in the show.

I have been thinking of how to transition my career for a year since leaving Downing Street and it is the best piece I have read on the subject.

Thank you to this episode’s sponsor, Juggle.Jobs

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Flexible hiring is the most obvious route while you grow, but it's difficult to find experienced hires that can hit the ground running through traditional recruitment firms that don't focus on flexible workers and charge expensive market rates.

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He was able to hire the perfect candidate on a flexible basis through Juggle, and this resulted in him saving both time and money.

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