Founding again?
The playbook for founding a company has changed. AI has compressed timelines, capital markets have reset, and the bar for what counts as a breakout business is higher than it was five years ago. For repeat founders considering starting their second or third company, the questions are different - and the answers from the first time around don't all carry over:
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How do you now pick a problem worth a decade?
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How have team structures changed, and how has AI shifted what the best hires looks like?
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How do you think about defensibility today?
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How has the bar for "breakout" shifted?
Join Matt Wilson & Ed Steele from Jack & Jill, and a room full of select repeat founders to trade hard-won answers, pressure-test the new playbook, and discuss what building a world-class startup looks like today.
Our Panel
Matt Wilson (CEO, Jack & Jill) previously founded Omnipresent, which scaled to a $600m valuation in 3 years before exiting to Deel. Now leading Jack & Jill, he has hired a 16-person, founder-heavy team (10 ex-founders) across London and San Francisco, and raised $20M led by tier-1 VC Creandum (Lovable, Spotify, Black Forest Labs, Bolt).
Ed Steele (Founding Operator, Jack & Jill). Before joining Jack & Jill, Ed spent five years building Hoxton Farms, a cultivated fat company he founded and scaled with $35m in funding from Founders Fund, Collab Fund, Fidelity and others. Earlier in his career he worked as a mathematician supporting companies across biotech, finance and sport, and an ML engineer at fintech unicorn Thought Machine. He read maths at Oxford and machine learning at Imperial.
Agenda & Timings
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6:30pm: Arrival
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7:00pm: Panel
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7:45pm: Q&A
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8:00pm: Networking
