Founding Again Today: What's changed for second-time founders?

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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: How do you now pick a problem worth a decade? How do you think about defensibility today? How has the bar for "breakout" shifted? Join us for a conversation designed for repeat founders thinking about going again. 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 is Founding Operator at Jack & Jill, where he leads B2B Delivery. 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 6:30pm: Arrival 7:00pm: Panel 7:45pm: Q&A 8:00pm: Networking