Human Clock Speed | Ali Mitchell, Odyssey Ventures

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My First Conversation with Ali Mitchell, Odyssey Ventures Timestamps 00:00:00 Work is life 00:02:23 Building the Ninian oil platform 00:09:10 The big red bus theory 00:11:47 Learning human clock speed at dunnhumby 00:16:22 Betting everything on Huddle.com 00:20:21 Mortgaging the house for Flow 00:23:01 Garrett Lord’s extreme grit 00:25:46 Slaughtering sacred cows 00:35:08 Booting up Silicon Roundabout 00:39:14 Bringing Silicon Valley back to London 00:42:38 The era of the PhD founder 00:44:55 Backing founders, not technology 00:47:39 Turning a farm into a deep-tech laboratory 00:49:40 Running on startups & adrenaline 00:51:49 The body is a battery 00:53:43 Buying back the Handshake bet 00:56:22 Putting founders before the fund 00:58:00 Staying the underdog 00:59:26 Global on day one 01:01:17 The never-ending game

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