Brent Hoberman
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Saas org charts by @DavidSacks
For those scaling v helpful
sacks.substack.com/p/the-saas-org…
.@RishiSunak the Chancellor highlights the benefits of offices especially for the young.
Absolutely 💯
thetimes.co.uk/article/go-bac…H
Some good advice in here from founders for founders twitter.com/foundersfactor…
Well done - great milestone !
.@Onfido hits $100M ARR and grows global revenue over 100% Y-o-Y businesswire.com/news/home/2021…
Soho Farmhse for brilliant @brenthoberman @Founders_Forum attended by corporate titans celebrating creativity. Enjoyed chatting with @Ocado founder Tim Steiner @BBC’s director creative diversity @junesarpong. Lunch @alexa99 founder William Tunstall-Pedoe - thejc.com/lifestyle/feat…
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Congratulations to the @element_hq team on their $30m Series B led by @protocollabs and Metaplanet alongside @NotionCapital and @automattic!! techcrunch.com/2021/07/27/ele…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Congrats to 3 winning teams
Backing from ITV studio 55 ventures
Gaming, the metaverse, wellness
Great support from @FoundersIntel
ITV invests £2.5m in online games start-up Live Tech Games business-live.co.uk/technology/itv…
Congrats reeva and team on fundraise for @walkingon_earth
uktech.news/news/benevolen…
Silicon Valley-style companies are now being created in many places other than SV. Eu has unicorns in 65 cities. In 10 🇪🇺 countries– the UK, Fr, DACH, Sw,Nl,Spain, Fin, Den,Nor– startups raised more in the 1st half 2021 than in any previous full yr
Today’s decision about extraditing Mike Lynch to the US is an outrage. A judge sitting in a British court has decided to send a British businessman into the hands of the US courts at the say so of American prosecutors.
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Yesterday, Ramp became the 1st fiat on-ramp to be registered with the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority.
And only the 8th Cryptoassets Firm to receive the approval.
#Registered #fintech
register.fca.org.uk/s/search?prede…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman New plans for governing body to make digital identities as trusted as passports and with an easily recognised trustmark to boost public confidence:
gov.uk/government/new…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Fail to understand how the @BBCWorld @Telegraph are reporting that beta variant accounts for 10-15% of sequences in France. Couldn’t find this data on outbreak.info. Have check on @GISAID as well.Last 4 weeks of beta prevalence in France at 3.4%
gisaid.org/hcov19-variant…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Important work.
Do get the learnings from the work the @KensingtonRoyal foundation did on the Cyberbullying Taskforce with the leading social media platforms
It's great you are on this twitter.com/DrAlexGeorge/s…
"The 750 unicorns have a combined valuation of $2.37T. Apple’s market cap is $2.42T. If just one of those companies ends up being worth more than Apple one day, you get the other 749 for free." 🤯 Crazy stat from@packyMMnotboring.co/p/introducing-…7I
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Does @rupertmurdoch not deserve some of the credit for the strength of English football today?
For those too young- Sky bet big early on UK football rights putting funds and professionalism into the game.
It's been incredible to work with @elliot_oco and truly impressed with the near magical technology platform they have built and phenomenal customer adoption and satisfaction.
What a terrific company solving a huge problem right now. twitter.com/elliot_oco/sta…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman The problem is not to aim high and fail but to aim low and hit. Aristotle
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Huge congrats to @catrjones & the team at @bywaytravel for raising £1.1m to bring sustainable, flight-free holidays to the mainstream🚂Byway was bravely born in our studio during the pandemic & over 7,500 trips have already been built👏
P.s They're hiringtravelweekly.co.uk/news/tour-oper…E1
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Great approaches
Also do approach @CamillaMazzolin of @firstminutecap for #climatetech too twitter.com/Siftedeu/statu…
Absolutely
Strong bias for action when mistakes can be reversed
Via @DanRose999 and Amazon twitter.com/Passworded_/st…
Don’t have $28 million to spend on space travel? For $125,000, this balloon gets you pretty close trib.al/2qQnP5v
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Before joining @LSEplc, I was a banker for 15 years. I was used to seeing 5-10 Tech & Consumer Internet IPOs in any given year. We’ve had 49 IPOs in H1 and 23 in tech & Internet!!! (1/n)
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Just five days left to apply for UKs biggest student competition. All you need is a deck: form.typeform.com/to/tXGYkJDF. @seedlegals @PotterClarkson
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Great thoughts from top @lastminute_com alumnus twitter.com/jstockwood/sta…
Congratulations to @HarnessWealth on their $15m Series A led by @jsv_vc. Look forward to the next stage of the journey alongside @BainCapVC @torch @FjLabs @alley_corp @Benioff @OriAllon @ActivantCapital @GingerBreadCap Liquid 2 Ventures i2BF Ventures techcrunch.com/2021/06/28/har…
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Delighted to see this
U.K. needs to allow investment to flow and business trips are key to this
Business leaders arriving in England granted exemption from Covid quarantine
theguardian.com/world/2021/jun…
Global soft power of British humour
« Airline passengers landing in Sydney have been panicking after the owner of a building under the flightpath painted a huge sign on the roof reading “Welcome to Perth”. »
The return of in-person events: @Founders_Forum's 15th Anniversary.
A few highlights...
linkedin.com/pulse/return-i…
A great team
enjoyed serving on this board for 3 years a while back.
Shazam: > 1 bn song matches pm, total to 50 bn tags since inception in 2002. Shazam reached 1 bn total tags in 2012, and achieved the same rate per month less than 10 years after crossing that milestone.
.@griffitha OpEd on the need to unleash climatetech entrepreneurs as a key plank on path to #netzero
Was great to have had this as the core of the #ffclimatetech Summit last week.
thetimes.co.uk/article/climat…
A momentous day for Made.com as it becomes a publicly-traded company on @LSEplc.
Congrats to the team past and present.
Sharing a few learnings from the story of Made's inception - something of a phoenix from the ashes.
linkedin.com/pulse/madecom-…
Ok I’d add
@CharlesDunstone
Mike Lynch
-prob lots in life sciences?
Trivia question
Can Twitter help answer
How many UK entrepreneurs have founded 2 unicorns - or more ?
Unicorn nest: UK hits milestone of 100 $1bn tech companies, more than rest of Europe combined cityam.com/?p=1727894 via @CityAM
The Future is here
Just unevenly distributed! twitter.com/takeonGravity/…
10-year returns:
Microsoft: +967%
Apple: +1,040%
Netflix: +1,327%
Amazon: +1,770%
Domino’s Pizza: +1,834%
Tesla: +11,661%
Bitcoin: +205,874%
Tomatoes: +7,890,899%
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Good Morning ☀️
We’ve officially kicked off! @brenthoberman & @OliverDowden welcome you to the 15th year of Founders Forum 🚀#FoundersForumm#TheFutureUnfoldss1
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman This was a highlight of #FoundersForum - the incredible flying man Richard Browning
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Incredible talk from the creator of the Oxford Vaccine, Sarah Gilbert & General Partner of Google Ventures, @thulme, on innovating and scaling quickly📈#FoundersForumm#TheFutureUnfoldssp
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman UK demand for tech jobs increases dramatically
Now for more programms to train up diverse talent like
@01_Founders
@joysyj
A free coding school starting in London this autumn
cityam.com/uk-tech-hiring…
Congrats to @nate_app
Over $50m raised to date
And congrats to @foundersfactory team for incubating twitter.com/albertsaniger/…
New stats today show tech is fuelling 100,000 job openings a week - a five-year high. It’s great to be at @Founders_Forum today to discuss steps to open up digital opportunities across the country. It is clear that tech will drive our recovery from COVID.
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman We are proud to announce the 2021 Rising Stars cohort! 💫 Co-hosted by@SVB_Financiall
Early stage entrepreneurs are building our future. Nothing is more exciting than an ambitious founder who is determined to change the world.
➤ff.co/events/risings…ym
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Israel: As of today, masks are no longer required
There are no remaining Covid-19 restrictions
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman Terrific to see so many great people honoured in today’s Queen Honours List, who are contributing to the UK’s current & future development. Hearty congrats @ccrosswell @UKPriyaGuha @rsohoni @cee and many others!
Retweeted by Brent Hoberman excited to have @firstminutecap support the Testbox twitter.com/TechCrunch/sta…
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