The Impact of Extreme Talent in Venture Capital

EF's culture is based on strong beliefs, weakly held. One of the pushes to do talent investing was to make sure people were working on the right idea for them. We literally are picking people deliberately idea agnostic before we know what they might build at all. If you're a CTO, that needs to be really deep understanding of technology. So I think there needs to be something obvious about how tech companies should look and behave. And alongside thatwe build software companies, we build software companies with great teams who can solve big problems in 10 years' time. It's quite funny that you opened with culture as infrastructure because of course, the other thing that comes to mind when you