The Family

ABOUT THE EPISODE: 

Don’t fall in love with one single brilliant idea. As an entrepreneur, you’re fighting against a problem, you’re not worshiping ideas. Problem first, idea second.  You’re about to dedicate all of your time & energy to tackling this problem, so make sure it’s a good one. A good problem is real, you can clearly acknowledge and define it, and it’s getting worse every day.  Leave your ideas behind and concentrate on the problem that obsesses you

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Aditya was CTO at Dropbox, leading every innovation and managing the engineering teams. New product development? He oversaw that. Tech ops? He was in charge of that too. He joined the company when his own startup Cove was acquired by Dropbox.

Before that, Aditya was one of the first engineers and Director of Product Engineering at Facebook. Over there, he led the development of core products like news feed, search, profile, and photos.

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Key things he told us when he came to The Family:

- Working with people you love is more important than finding the perfect or industry project for you.

- Patience is needed to build a LT company.

- How do you maximize impact during your career?

- How do you balance professional & personal life?

He did a presentation of his entire career, showcasing what he learned in the process before being interviewed on stage by our Director, Erika Batista.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: Fireside Chat with Aditya Agarwal, CTO at Dropbox

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Join us at one of our events: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Claire Novorol’s career has been guided by her deep interest in developing creative solutions to tackle real world problems. 

At Ada, she is responsible for overseeing medical affairs, clinical partnerships and for ensuring Ada's products are tailored to support patient needs. 

She has advised several health startups throughout her career, and also founded Doctorpreneurs - a global community of over 10,0000 medical professionals who share an interest in health entrepreneurship.

Prior to Ada, Claire worked as a Paediatrician and Clinical Geneticist within the NHS. She also has a degree in Pathology and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge.

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If you take the U-Bahn in Berlin you must have noticed those huge posters saying “Hi I’m Ada I can help if you are feeling unwell”.

Awesome no? What’s even more awesome is that Ada raised $69.3M to push full steam ahead and influence the health system for the better.

We are overly excited to have had Dr. Claire Novorol at The Family for a fireside-chat lead by Balthazar De Lavergne, Director at The Family. She is the Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Ada and shared valuable insights with us. 

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: An evening with Claire Novorol, Founder & CMO of Ada Health

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

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Riley Newman is Airbnb's former Head of Data Science. He actually joined the company as the first data scientist and as one of the first employees.

ABOUT THE EPISODE: 

Have you already heard the Airbnb story from the inside? 🚀

In this episode, we get a global overview of the journey. Riley presents us they way they came across many critical challenges startups commonly face - jumpstarting, competition, product development, and scale.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: The Airbnb story by Riley Newman, former Director of Data Science @Airbnb

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Join us at one of our events: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

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The only reason you're in the startup game is to quickly get rich & successful? 💸 Too bad! The mercenary era is over, we're now looking for missionaries! 😈  Learn how to fight on the war to sucess thanks to TheFamily's cofounder Oussama Ammar!

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based).

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: Mercenaries VS Missionaries 

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

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SEO is magic because it’s a kind of automated sales prospecting. Leads & opportunities come to you. But beware! If you’re a startup, SEO is a long-term investment. There are many variables that have to be taken into consideration: the structuring of the platform, the proper usage of keywords, adequate content creation

Luigi will share with us why SEOs basic principles are rarely absolute. He will see how to assess the impact of the most common SEO factors in each and every market niche and shape our SEO strategy accordingly.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Luigi Perri has been doing SEO for the past 11 years. He is currently Head of SEO at Delivery Hero SE HQ in Berlin. He’ll never stop talking about SEO. And football.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: SEOs Lie by Luigi Perri, Global Head of SEO at Delivery Hero

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

In this Bonus episode we’re giving you the opportunity to ‘Ask Oussama Anything’. We received more than a hundred questions, picked some and turned it into an interview.

This episode is also a chance to let you know that now you can find all the interviews, articles or keynotes made by Oussama in the following website: www.daedalium.com

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Ron Conway is the man. He is THE investor. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb... He was an early backer of all of these companies and the list keeps going.

Ron has been an active angel investor since the mid 90s and is the founder of SV Angel. He has invested in hundreds of companies & talked to thousands and thousands of startups in Silicon Valley. Angel and seed investments aren’t hiding any secrets from him.

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We’re in love with what Ron did for the Internet industry. He truly is a rockstar and it was a honour having him talking at The Family for a unique fireside chat with Mathias Pastor, Director at The Family.

They talked about which traits of greatness he observed in entrepreneurs, what makes an investment profitable + how he started and what he sees is coming next.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: Ron Conway, the “Godfather of Silicon Valley” 💸 at The Family

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

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This episode is part of D-code (https://www.d-code.thefamily.co/), our series of events where the best startup CTOs talk about their entrepreneurial adventures: Tech challenges converted into clear stories.

Alan is a digital health insurance platform. They built a first-class engineering team and the credit goes mainly to Charles. He did it by getting rid of old managerial principles and by giving ownership & responsibility to his team. 

They work as a network of individual contributors whose unique goal is to build the best tech to support Alan’s awesome mission: Simplifying health insurance for all of us.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Charles Gorintin worked as a data-scientist for years at Facebook, Instagram & Twitter. He was already leading teams & proved high-level skills in analytics and product. 

He came back to France in 2016 to start Alan with his cofounder Jean-Charles Samuelian. The insurance service they offer is 100% digital service with no administrative hassle, 5 minutes to register, a beautiful dashboard & a reactive customer support. By focusing that much on user-experience, building a world-class tech team is essential and Charles does it perfectly.

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: Building a 1st-class team based on transparency, ownership & trust

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium 

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Europe is toxic for entrepreneurs.  

Does that mean nothing can survive? Nope. It means some startups that should succeed don't.  

People think that creating accelerators and incubators can create another Silicon Valley. But those things weren't the cause of Silicon Valley's success - they were a consequence of it, a way to allow people that work hard and have the right mindset to be really close to each other. 

Europe isn’t Silicon Valley, and trying to copy it without really understanding it is a waste of time. And yes, in Europe we like to waste time. But as an entrepreneur, there are three things that you need: capital, talent, and time.  

 So what about all those incubators and accelerators across Europe, created to help entrepreneurs but that just...don't?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Oussama Ammar is the Co-Founder of The Family. He got his first taste of the startup world when he was 12 years old and launched one of the first web agencies in France. He spent a few years working on it with multiple spin-offs and independents platforms, including one of the first online antique shops. In his early 20’s, after a quick detour through the social sciences, law, logic and philosophy at La Sorbonne, Oussama created Hypios that became, in less than 3 years, one of the few open innovation leaders in the world. Angel Investor for over 2 years with 21+ active deals (most of them Silicon Valley-based).

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Learn more about The Family and apply to join us here: thefamily.co

Check out the video of the talk here: European Toxicity

Check out other videos on our Youtube channel: Startupfood 

Check out our events here: The Family Events

We also write amazing articles: Medium