# Pete Flint

> Pete Flint is a British-born serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist who co-founded Trulia, the real estate search platform that sold to Zillow for $3.5 billion in 2015. Before that, he was part of the founding team at lastminute.com, which IPO'd in London and sold for $1.1 billion. He is now General Partner at NFX, a seed-stage VC firm built around the thesis that network effects drive 70% of all technology value creation. He was awarded an OBE in 2021 for services to entrepreneurship.

- **Role:** General Partner at NFX
- **Organizations:** NFX, Trulia, lastminute.com, New Story Charity, Aspen Institute
- **From:** Essex, England
- **Nationality:** British
- **Education:** BA/MA in Physics (Highest Honors), University of Oxford, Magdalen College, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Henry Crown Fellowship, Aspen Institute
- **Known for:** Co-founded Trulia, sold to Zillow for $3.5 billion in 2015, Part of founding team at lastminute.com, which IPO'd in London and sold for ~$1.1 billion, Grew Trulia to 50+ million monthly unique users

## Career timeline

- **1996** — Graduated from Oxford University with BA/MA in Physics with Highest Honors
- **1998** — Joined founding team at lastminute.com in London under Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox
- **2000** — lastminute.com IPO'd on the London Stock Exchange at £571M valuation
- **2003** — Enrolled in Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA program
- **2005** — lastminute.com acquired by Sabre Holdings for ~$1.1 billion
- **2005** — Co-founded Trulia with Sami Inkinen on June 1, 2005, inspired by Stanford apartment search frustration
- **2005** — Trulia beta launched in September, initially covering California
- **2012** — Trulia IPO'd on NYSE under ticker TRLA at $17/share
- **2013** — Trulia acquired Market Leader Inc. for $355 million
- **2014** — Zillow announced acquisition of Trulia in all-stock deal valued at $3.5 billion; Flint named EY Entrepreneur of the Year (Northern California)
- **2015** — Trulia-Zillow merger closed on February 17
- **2016** — Joined NFX as General Partner in December; named Henry Crown Fellow at Aspen Institute
- **2021** — Awarded OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to entrepreneurship
- **2024** — Co-authored 'The AI Workforce is Here' — widely shared essay on Service-as-a-Software paradigm
- **2024** — Published 'The Verticalization of Everything' — thesis on vertical AI displacing horizontal SaaS

## Achievements

- Co-founded Trulia, sold to Zillow for $3.5 billion in 2015
- Part of founding team at lastminute.com, which IPO'd in London and sold for ~$1.1 billion
- Grew Trulia to 50+ million monthly unique users
- Awarded OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2021 for services to entrepreneurship
- EY Entrepreneur of the Year — Northern California (2014)
- Named to Forbes' Most Powerful CEOs Under 40
- Henry Crown Fellow, Aspen Institute (2016)
- General Partner at NFX, which has built the most widely read framework on network effects in startup strategy
- Founding board member of New Story Charity (now New Story Homes), focused on eliminating global homelessness
- Regular guest lecturer at Stanford GSB on entrepreneurship

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Published 'Functional AGI is Already Here' — arguing functional-level AGI has arrived for specific domains
- **2026-03** — Published 'The Infinite Game: What Artists Know That Founders Don't' on NFX
- **2026-02** — Published 'AI Games Are Coming' on NFX
- **2024-09** — Published 'The Verticalization of Everything' — thesis on vertical AI displacing horizontal SaaS
- **2024-07** — Published '12 Killer Wedges for Your Company's Growth'
- **2024-04** — Co-authored 'The AI Workforce is Here: The Rise of a New Labor Market' with NFX partner Anna Pinol

## Links

- Website: https://nfx.com/team/pete-flint
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/peteflint
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/peteflint

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Last updated: 2026-04-29