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Brent Hoberman
@brenthoberman
2x unicorn founder Co-founder/investor @firstminutecap @Founders_Forum @foundersfactory Angelinvestor - backed 10 unicorns at 🌱
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Joined November 2008
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    Absolutely love granola. My meetings never stop ⏰⏰, granola helps me make sense of those meets and take action at the end of the day iOS makes it indispensable!
    Today we're announcing Granola for iPhone. Your note-taking companion for in-person meetings. Turn it on, talk, get beautiful notes with zero effort
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    Honestly can't believe the cynics on this @MattHancock set a BHAG (Big hairy audacious goal)-got everyone to focus and deliver. & Some want to get pedantic on what in the scheme of things are irrelevant details. The momentum is the key. In business this would be a palpable hit
    Average voter sees @MattHancock as the guy who took the ball from one end of the pitch to the over and scored when every journalist had said he couldn’t Those same journalists are now complaining the goal didn’t cross the line in normal time but in injury time, in the 91st minute
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    Attached pic of first email @Marthalanefox and I sent to anyone we vaguely knew or thought we knew. In 1998. Breaking GDPR before it existed Email went viral and we thought we might just be onto something. Building an early Internet brand... Thanks Josh Berger for sharing
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    Great kick off yesterday of #cyberbullying taskforce for @KensingtonRoyal with key media/telco and charity leaders
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    Firstminute Capital launches second $111M fund, featuring a who’s-who of founders as LPs – TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2020/11/29/fir… .@TechCrunch @mikebutcher Great to part of the momentum of European value added seed investors.
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    £6.8bn Invested in the UK tech sector in 2016 - 2x higher than any other European country. ln.is/www.techcityuk… #TechNation
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    Congrats to the ⁦@TechNation⁩ team (& ⁦@gerardgrech⁩ ⁦@SKellyCEO⁩) on all the support and insights they have given to U.K. tech founders since 2014. We ⁦@foundersforum⁩ are delighted to be in discussion to take over this globally respected entity.
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    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-…
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    UK government announces public/private match funding with convertible loan instrument for seed to later stage companies. 250k-£5m Plus 750m grants @innovateuk To keep UK at forefront of European innovation.
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    Seed fund,with backing from top founders,strategic family offices &CEOs raises $60m to back European tech start-ups ft.com/content/29cbef…
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    Totally agree WFH was better than people feared for short term but long term downsides are becoming more apparent. Winter alone at home is less productive than inspiring offices. Let’s make office life safe and great for collaboration
    I suspect many companies and staff will tire of WFH after a while. Corporate culture is hard to maintain over Zoom. Separation of home and work life is difficult. Once winter sets in loneliness and isolation will become more pronounced.
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    UK government must act to help start-ups via @FT Article in FT tonight. Some not close to this sector will argue no support needed. But these are extraordinary times and we believe too many startups that we will need in the future will fail without...
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    Sorry this is embarrassing for the guardian and cynics commenting below. (I was on the guardian board for 9 years and they are investors in founders factory so I get disappointed by the energy they spend on partisan baseless attacks like this article). There really is nothing
    BREAKING After discovery of £2m from Sunak's Future Fund (as Chancellor) going to FOUR Companies invested in by his wife - Labour asks Standards Committee to investigate Sunak has not declared this & 3 of the firms have gone into administration. theguardian.com/politics/2023/…
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    Israeli gargle test 95% accuracy 1 second result Halfway through trials