Associate (London) - The Bridge

WHAT IS THE BRIDGE? The Bridge is the fastest way for Europeans to build massive companies in San Francisco from scratch. At Entrepreneurs First, we’ve spent over a decade refining how to identify the most talented potential founders around the globe, help them build teams, ideate and raise funds from the world’s best VCs. The portfolio we’ve built this way is now worth over $15bn. San Francisco is the most competitive startup ecosystem in the world - if you can win there, you can win globally. It has forged the most valuable companies to ever exist; for those that want to build something generational, there’s no better place to found. That has led us to The Bridge: combining the best European talent with a decade of company‑building knowledge, and bringing it to the SF ecosystem. Cohorts of 40-50 founders, living, working and building companies together from scratch, in a house in San Francisco. 8 weeks to go from nothing, to a funded startup. This will be the place the next $100bn company gets created.

THE ROLE Your job is to identify outlier individuals before the pivotal moments in their lives, then make sure they reach their potential. Once you’ve found them, help them build a moonshot. You will learn how ideas become reality, have day‑to‑day exposure to world‑class founders, and directly influence how we deploy millions of dollars every year into founders and teams in Europe and the US. We’re creating a whole new category - you can be a pioneer.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute theses on where you can find exceptionally talented individuals early in their career.
• Become a trusted advisor to those individuals - help them unlock their ambition and reach their potential, from advising on career decisions to supporting them in building companies and raising funds.
• Sharpen your judgement: learn what exceptional founders and world‑changing companies look like.
• Build relationships with experts in a broad range of fields.
• Be a key influencer in deciding which founders and companies EF invests in.

What This Looks Like

• Sourcing talent in Europe: you will spend approximately eight months of the year working intensely on finding great people that we want to invest in.
• Shaping talent and companies in San Francisco: you will spend approximately two to three months of the year in San Francisco, supporting the people we’ve invested in, to build their founding teams and figure out the ideas they want to work on.

Fundamentally, your job is to find exceptional people and support them to build exceptional companies. If you do this job well, you will become part of the origin story of the iconic companies of the future.

Who We Are Entrepreneur First (“EF”) has existed for over a decade. We’re a small team within EF spinning out The Bridge, our newest product. We’re backed by some of the most successful founders and investors in Silicon Valley and beyond. They include Founders Fund, John & Patrick Collison (founders of Stripe), Demis Hassabis (founder of DeepMind & Head of GoogleAI), Mustafa Suleyman (founder of DeepMind & head of MicrosoftAI), Reid Hoffman (founder of Linkedin), Charlie Songhurst (Board member at Meta), Lachy Groom (Founder of Physical Intelligence). They’ve built the biggest companies in the world, and are helping us back the next wave of companies that will shape the next decades of technology.

At The Bridge, we believe that a small number of exceptional people will have an extraordinary impact by creating the companies which shape the future in ways we cannot yet imagine. We exist to identify, and amplify the impact of, these individuals. We do this via our unique approach to company creation, which sees us identify and work with outliers before they even know they’re outliers, right through to the day they prove it. We call this Talent Investing. We’re looking for the next generation of Talent Investors to join us, and enable the world’s most exceptional people to fulfil their potential.

Who You Are Early in your career, hungry to learn by doing, and ambitious. You likely recognise yourself in most of the below:

• Intellectually curious: you dig for first principles, self‑teach, and range across domains.
• Driven: you find creative ways through walls; you own your outcomes.
• Network builder: you build meaningful relationships with exceptional people, peers and seniors alike.
• Discerning judge of talent: high standards; optimistic yet realistic about people’s potential.
• Tech‑impact oriented: fascinated by how technology, especially via startups, changes the world.