Pete Flint
| Pete Flint | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 25, 1974 (age 43) Essex, UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Oxford University, Stanford Graduate School of Business |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur Internet Executive Investor |
| Employer | Managing Partner at NFX Guild, Board of Directors at Zillow |
| Known for | Most successful British entrepreneur in SF Bay Area. Founding two billion dollar businesses. |
| Spouse(s) | Married, 2 children |
| Website | www.nfx.com |
Pete Flint (born July 25, 1974) is a British Internet Entrepreneur and Investor based in San Francisco. He is the Founder and former Chairman and CEO of Trulia. Formerly he was part of the Founding team at lastminute.com where he was responsible for their highly successful growth and online marketing strategy. He is the most successful British entrepreneur based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently is a Managing Partner at NFX Guild, the early stage venture capital fund focused on Network Effect Businesses.
Flint earned a First Class Bachelor’s degree and Masters in Physics from Oxford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Shortly after graduating from Oxford University, Flint joined Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox to start lastminute.com. He had previously worked alongside Hoberman at LineOne, a joint venture between New International and British Telecom, where Flint worked for less than a year.
Flint spent five years at lastminute.com helping to scale the company from a business plan to a public company with 2000 employees and operations in 11 countries, Flint left lastminute.com to attend Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2003. lastminute.com was acquired by Sabre Group for $1.1Bn in cash in 2005.
Flint conceived of Trulia in 2004 while he was between the first and second year of his MBA course at Stanford while looking for off campus housing. He observed that consumer usage to research real estate was growing rapidly, yet all the major websites in the category were not focused on delivering a compelling consumer experience and failed to provide compelling advertising products to tap into the billions of dollars that were being spent on real estate newspaper classified advertising. Flint wrote the original business plan while at Stanford. Flint recruited a team of Stanford students to turn Flint’s concept into a company, of the original students that worked on the project, Sami Inkinen joined Flint to incorporate the company in June 2005.
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