Did you ever get close to shutting EF down?
Replied byAlice Bentinck
Co-founder and CEO, Entrepreneurs First at Entrepreneurs First
Niche: Technology, Finance, Edu
Revenue: $1M+/month
Location: USA
Started: 2015 or
Yes. Before our third demo day in 2015, Matt and I said, if this doesn’t go well, we’re going to can it. From that demo day we got our first unicorn and our first $7 million exit, and then the rest is history. But we were genuinely close to stopping.
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