Introducing Three and a Half Founders

Nasos Papadopoulos
Entrepreneur First
Published in
3 min readApr 30, 2019

Today, Entrepreneur First has launched Three and a Half Founders, a podcast designed to give you the insider’s view of starting a globally important company.

These conversations, made up of roundtables between four EF LD10 cohort members Stacy-Ann Sinclair, Greg Lawton, Tomide Adesanmi, and Yassir Al-Refaie, are the most honest discussion of the EF process we’ve managed to capture yet.

Over the course of the six part series you’ll get the real view of what it’s like to start a company from four people who have just gone through the process.

That means we cover everything including generating ideas and getting Product-Market Fit, finding the right co founder, pitching your business and raising money from VCs.

Top Left to Bottom Right — Greg Lawton, Yassir Al-Refaie, Tomide Adesanmi and Stacy-Ann Sinclair

The first 3 episodes of the series are now live on the EF website and all major podcasting platforms — here’s a quick summary and clip of each to give you a flavour for what’s in store.

Episode #1 Becoming an Entrepreneur

In this first episode the founders chat about their backgrounds discussing everything from their family’s influence on them, to what school was like for them and the early stages of their career. Plus, they also talk about the big decision to take the leap and start their own company with Entrepreneur First.

>>>LISTEN TO EPISODE #1 NOW

‘I don’t think I could go back to that environment’ — Greg Lawton

Episode #2 Finding a Co Founder

In this episode the founders talk about the challenges they had finding a co-founder before joining Entrepreneur First, the CEO/CTO relationship and the difficulties of co-founder breakups. Plus, they also go into how they found their current co-founder and why the relationships works for them.

>>>LISTEN TO EPISODE #2 NOW

‘The co-founding relationship I had before wasn’t as valuable’ — Tomide Adesanmi

Episode #3 Getting Product-Market Fit

In today’s episode the founders talk about coming up with great ideas and matching them to customers’ needs. We discuss frameworks for ideation, strategies for talking to customers and how to prove traction with limited data. Plus, we also talk about how the founders settled on their current ideas.

>>>LISTEN TO EPISODE #3 NOW

The importance of knowing when to let an idea go — Stacy-Ann Sinclair

Check out the podcast now

You can listen to Three and a Half Founders on all your favourite podcasting platforms here

>Apple — https://apple.co/2UMhXCL
>Spotify — https://spoti.fi/2PyXDnn
>Stitcher — https://lnkd.in/dV6UNUj

And subscribe to stay tuned for the next three episodes — #4 Pitching and Demo Day, #5 Fundraising from Investors and #6 Growing your Business.

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Nasos Papadopoulos
Entrepreneur First

Storyteller, Writer & Interviewer | 7 years interviewing the word’s top experts for MetaLearn (200+ eps) | Building content empires at Mediopolis.