It’s been astonishing to see the pace and scale of work behind the scenes at HM Treasury Bank of England @Coadec BVCA and so many others to secure this outcome with HSBC for SVB UK. Huge shout out to Dom Hallas

Why has Stripe raised $9bn but Adyen has raised <$500m? Both companies at similar TPV scale with vastly different capital efficiency?

This week in AI just changed everything. Massive announcements from OpenAI, Warren Buffet, Microsoft, AMD, Palantir, Tesla, Meta, Humane, IBM, Wendy's, Google, HuggingFace, Scale AI, Synthesia, Anthropic, and Stability AI. EVERYTHING you need to know and why it's important:

Here's the data. You can read more about the returns of USV, Forerunner, Sequoia, True Ventures, and GGV in my story newcomer.co/p/venture-capi…

The *brand new* State of European Tech: First Look is here! Check out stateofeuropeantech.com for a snapshot on 2023 so far, incl: 📊 VC capital invested year to date 🌍 Country breakdown 🌱 Early stage resilience 🤖 Founder and thematic trends #SOET #superventure

We are back with a pulse check on the European ecosystem 📊

Get a sneak peek into our mid-year release last week! 👀

Our latest bitesize #SOET update shows Europe's founders have never been better 👉 19% of founders have prior experience in companies that have raised more than $50M 🔄 37% are repeat founders Check out the full dataset stateofeuropeantech.com/2023-first-loo…

11: In the short-term, changes in valuation drive returns. In the long-term, changes in sales & profits drive returns.

1/This weekend a few hundred early Skypers gathered in Tallinn to celebrate 20 years from the first beta release of Skype, on August 23rd, 2003. #skype20 Here's a thread on how this company left a dent.

Just like any industry, Venture Capital is being disrupted by tech. VCs at the forefront of this trend share insights into their work over the coming days. Join me tonight as we share a sneak peek into what we are doing at Atomico. summit.datadrivenvc.io

sam altman is a genius master class strategist—he used the enemy of my enemy principle to perfection. 1) he neutralized elon threat completely. 2) negotiated an incredible deal with satya for infinite compute & forever customer. 3) now negotiated a deal with apple to make openai

my first livestream on X - over 1200 joined! "Future of Autonomous Agents" recording is available here:

Patrick Collison on craft

Found myself coming back to this recording a few times since the livestream - thanks again Yohei for putting this together 👏. Highly recommend watching for anyone interested in autonomous agents.

The story of how it got much more difficult to get from seed-stage to Series A. Each line is a set of seed-stage companies. One line per quarter from 2018-H1 2022. Recent cohort quarters are lagging way behind the past 5 years in percentage getting to Series A at 1 year, 2

The funding gap in Europe is real. Dealroom data powering Atomico's State of European tech report once again, as it turns 10 this year. Proud allies of underdogs, Sarah Guemouri💪 #soet24 stateofeuropeantech.com/chapters/inves…

We’re undergoing a job title paradigm shift: Founder → Curator Engineer → Architect Designer → Tastemaker Marketer → Distribution Hacker HR → Vibe Setter Operations → Agent Orchestrator Social Media Manager → Meme Curator Sales → Community Builder PM → Extinct

It's been a wild journey of us Anthropic trying to convince people to adopt MCP just a couple of months ago to OpenAI and many others now adopting it. Another huge vote of confidence for MCP becoming the world's standard.

There's a lot of noise out there.