#50 Pete Flint: Co-Founder of Trulia

Pete Flint is a General Partner at NFX, a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley. He was the co-founder of Trulia, the popular real estate application that has 50 million monthly users. Trulia merged with Zillow in 2015 and was valued at $3.5 billion. Pete shares a treasure trove of life and career advice ranging from his time at Oxford, Stanford, Trulia, and now.

In this episode we discuss:

-Why he saw the need to start Trulia 

-4 reasons why he went to Stanford for b-school

-His appetite for risk tolerance 

-The hardest part of going from 50 to 250 employees

-His best advice for hiring the right talent

-The value he found from investors saying no

-How to cultivate self-awareness

-How Trulia was able to pivot successfully out of the housing crisis in 2008

-How the truly exceptional entrepreneurs focus their time/energy and more..

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Watch the Trulia case study here

Visit NFX, the VC firm here

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