Scaling Ambition By Entrepreneur First

Joe White, Entrepreneur, CFO and General Partner at Entrepreneur First. An entrepreneur at heart, Joe founded his first business - a digital design agency - while still at university racking up big name clients like Disney, LSE and Bain & Company. He then went on to co-found Moonfruit, a DIY website platform, building and launching one of the world’s first SAAS products in the process. More recently Joe has become a prominent angel investor and got involved with EF back in 2015, investing in several portfolio companies before eventually becoming a General Partner and the company CFO – so he’s been an integral part of the company’s growth and expansion in recent years, culminating in the $115M first raise of the global fund earlier this year. In this episode Joe and I discuss: - The early days of Moonfruit and the nascent stages of the internet startup scene in the UK - How Joe helped steer the company through the dot com boom and bust in the early 2000s before exiting successfully years later - What star