Congrats to @matthewclifford@Alicebentinck and everyone at @join_ef. @gensynai is a proud alum of the ‘Covid Cohort’ - feb ‘20!
If you want to startup - there is no better time, and EF have more dry powder than ever 🤝
wonderful to see my entrepreneurial alma mater thrive like this. thoroughly well deserved, @join_ef is a very special institution that accelerates, nurtures and connects truly exceptional talent.
We’re excited to announce that @join_ef has raised $200m of fresh capital, including $130m into our management company at a unicorn valuation, to be the natural home of the world’s most ambitious people in the Age of Entrepreneurship 🧵
1/ It's Demo Day Week at @join_ef 🇺🇸
Meet Mike @mjwgoh and Raf @KhaykinRaf - they met for the first time a few months ago at a NY retreat I hosted for engineers. Less than two weeks later, they'd build a product, landed paid pilots and called it Krew @with_krew
Larry Page and Sergey Brin tried to sell Google for under $1m so they could return to their PhDs. Paul Allen had to convince Bill Gates to drop out of Harvard. Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard took day jobs until pushed by a professor to start HP. Steve Wozniak wanted HP to build his Apple I design because he didn't want to start a company. Herbert Boyer had no interest in starting a company before Bob Swanson convinced him to start Genentech.