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Super Angel #268: Angel investing insights with Paul Forster: Founder of Indeed.com and investor with +90 portfolio companies.
Join us as Tom Wilson from Seedcamp and Anthony Danon from Cocoa talk to Paul Foster, co-founder & CEO of Indeed and currently an active angel investor.
Paul Forster co-founded Indeed and was CEO until the company’s acquisition in late 2012. Today, Indeed is the leading job site globally, with over 100 million unique visitors in more than 50 countries and 26 languages.
Paul previously co-founded the leading job site for financial professionals, and before that was an investment professional at International Finance Corporation. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and Master’s degrees from Cambridge and Oxford Universities.
Paul loves working with founders and loves their energy, creativity, and variety. As an investor, he enjoys the intellectual stimulation from getting to know different industries and sectors and from working with different kinds of people.
We invite you to listen to this discussion below to hear some wonderful stories, besides the actionable pieces of advice that you can have a sneak peek at below.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Introduction to the Super Angel Podcast
00:01:54 - Early stage investing and angel investing
00:04:50 - Mentally stimulating work and investing in focused founders
00:06:30 - Investing in UK-based Companies
00:08:14 - Approaching New Deals and Portfolio Diversity
00:10:00 - Finding the Balance Between Diversification and Support
00:11:42 - Investing in Founders with Domain Expertise
00:13:22 - Pattern Recognition and Experience
00:15:05 - Collaborating with Other Investors in the Ecosystem
00:16:51 - Investing in Early Stage Companies
00:18:35 - Leading a Round
00:20:16 - Examples of Successful Investments
00:22:09 - Investing in VC Funds
00:23:58 - Core Learnings from Angel Investing
00:25:49 - Key Factors for Successful Investing
00:27:44 - Follow-on Investing and Objective Decision Making
00:29:28 - The Importance of the Right Team and Market Opportunity
00:30:57 - The Importance of Capital Efficiency in Building a Business
00:32:37 - Lessons from Angel Investing
00:34:28 - Building networks for international investments