20Angel: Steve O'Hear: Ex TechCrunch Editor on The Unspoken Misalignment Between Investors & Founders, Turning Story-Flow Into Deal-Flow, & The Best Portfolio Construction Advice From Tom Blomfield, Founder @ Monzo

20Angel is a series profiling European angel investors with the best Founder NPS.

Episode 12 features Steve O'Hear, CEO and Founder of strategic communications agency, O'Hear & Co, and an executive at Zapp. Previously, Steve spent over 15 years as a technology and business journalist, including more than 10 years reporting for TechCrunch, covering European startups and venture capital. He was also a startup founder himself, as CEO of social question & answer platform Beepl, before it exited in 2012. He is now an Atomico Angel, with checks into companies including Papaya, Medishout, Genie, Juno and many more.

The format for 20Angel is consistent across show, with questions including:

What are some of the non-obvious things they look for when investing in a company?

How they work with their Founders?

How Founders should approach them?

What they think makes a great angel investor?

Learnings from their Anti-Portfolio?

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