How to Be a Founder: How Entrepreneurs Can Identify, Fund and Launch Their Best Ideas

An essential guide to equip the next generation of founders with the mindset and tools they need to take the leap to become globally successful entrepreneurs.

Alice Bentinck MBE is the co-founder of Entrepreneur First. She is part of the UK government’s AI Council and was selected as one of the Prime Minister’s Business Council advisors 2022. She started her career at McKinsey & Co.

Matt Clifford MBE is the co-founder and CEO of Entrepreneur First. He is a non-executive director of Innovate UK, and a Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. Matt started his career at McKinsey & Co. and holds degrees from Cambridge and MIT, where he was a Kennedy Scholar.

Matt and Alice also co-founded Code First: Girls, the UK’s leading organization for women in tech, which has taught more than 50,000 women to code, for free. They are both now non-executive directors.