Entrepreneur Talks by STATION F

Fundraising has become a rite of passage for any startup that claims to be ambitious. It is perceived to be a must by many founders, especially those who are building SaaS products that need to grow …

There could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report. Plastic pollution is a huge problem — but it's not one that is irreversible if we act qu…

Ivan Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of Notion, the all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases. Entrepreneurs rave about it, VCs chase after it, and we simply cannot stop hearing…

A new billion-dollar fund "crafting a fertile future". A new-generation VC backed by 15 top entrepreneurs to support the "new wave" of founders.

The VC ecosystem is blossoming in France and we intervi…

IPOs or acquisitions? When it comes to exit strategies, going public remains less celebrated in Europe. Most startups imagine huge barriers to listing...but is it really that complicated? In this epi…

Last April, the world's leading accelerator Y Combinator announced that it would be going virtual for its S20 batch. One batch later, we interview YC President Geoff Ralston to learn about the differ…

Sequoia Capital has landed in Europe. Last September, Silicon Valley's premier venture capital firm set up shop in London with Luciana Lixandru at its head. With COVID aside, why make this move in 20…

Today, agriculture is among the greatest contributors to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than the transportation industry, with methane released from cattle rearing largely responsible…

Bailey Richardson grew the early community at Instagram, where she was one of the first employees. She interviewed hundreds of extraordinary community leaders and co-authored a book on how to build c…

With teams spread across the planet and international expansion on every startup's roadmap, understanding and working with cultural differences has never been so relevant as in today's business world…

Patty McCord is the former Chief Talent Officer at Netflix, from its beginnings in 1997 until 2012, post-IPO.

Her 126-page Netflix Culture Deck has amassed over 5 million views on the web and been ca…

What makes a good founder? How do you build a strong co-founding team?

In this episode, we catch up with Matt Clifford and Alice Bentinck from Entrepreneur First (EF), who have been backing talented …

With the development of investment vehicles and financial instruments like syndicates and rolling funds, investing has become more accessible in recent years to a wider non-VC and non-finance audienc…

Howie Liu is the co-founder and CEO of Airtable, a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. The company has taken the world by storm since its creation and has recently raised $185 million …

Hi, STATION F podcast listeners! We are back on campus and, despite COVID-19, things have been picking up. We just introduced a Beta Bar (a bar for beta-testing) at STATION F and we'll be dedicating …

Growth capital deals in the USA and in China tend to get the most attention, but the volume of later-stage VC capital has seen a significant rise in Europe since the last five to ten years. In this e…

In the first segment [1:15-8:20], we explore intergenerational living with Justine Renaudet, Co-Founder of Colette; which is a new startup in the coliving space that matches students and seniors.

In t…

What makes startup communities thrive? How can we improve collaboration amongst ecosystem actors to create success in these complex systems? These are two questions that Brad Feld (Founder at Foundry…

A focus on diversity in the investment space - especially in light of the recent racial injustices in America, which have gotten much less coverage on this side of the ocean in Europe with Daisy Onub…

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown Universit…