Education
Flint earned a First Class Bachelor’s degree and Masters in Physics from Oxford University and an Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
founder Head of Global Business Development
Flint earned a First Class Bachelor’s degree and Masters in Physics from Oxford University and an Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Formerly he worked as Head of Global Business Development for lastminute.com until July 2003 joining them as one of their first employees. Shortly after graduating from Oxford University, Flint joined Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox as one of the first employees at 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.
Flint conceived of in 2004 while he was between the first and second year of his Master of Business Administration 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 original business plan into a company, of the original students that worked on the project, Sami Inkinen joined Flint to incorporate the company in June 2005. was acquired by Zillow for $3.5Bn in 2014.
Flint is an active angel investor and advisor to consumer Internet and marketplace businesses.
In 2014, Flint was named a Finalist in Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. One of Fortune Magazine"s top tech disrupters. Most admired Chief Executive Officer in the San Francisco Bay Area according to the San Francisco Business Times.
One of Forbes"s Magazine"s Most Powerful Chief executive officers Under 40.
Flint has been named as one of the 100 most influential people in real estate by Inman magazine in 2008-2014. One of the most powerful people in real estate in Swanepoel Power 200.