"Despite your premiership having no legitimacy, I was prepared to support it to extract what I wanted in a private backroom deal" is such a mood.

The leaks thing seems less about the size of the cabinet and more about a) unprofessional politicians and b) the circulation of minutes, which was pretty far and wide amongst private offices, at least in my experience. Same with pre-release ONS data.

regulation & geopolitical risks = key challenges facing European tech, according to Atomico State of European Tech 👀 Form Ventures

Great to see DSIT working to #fixtheregulators. This needs to extend to every frontier tech and every regulator, and become embedded as the standard operating approach, not a side-project.

The new City Minister Bim Afolami is right here: regulators must have incentives to take some risk, especially around new technologies - as Form Ventures has long argued, most recently here: formventures.substack.com/p/13-to-build-… The right legislative frameworks and resources are also key

What we talk about when we talk about low investment in the UK - a 🧵 (Epistemic status: v speculative; really just me thinking aloud)

Everyone losing their sh*t over the CMA asking whether Microsoft / OpenAI might be a merger has had since 2002 to register their outrage about how UK competition law works.

"We need to give bags of money to centralised institutions to realise the dream of not having centralised institutions"

Our take on how policy shaped tech in 2023 and what comes next - and a recap of a very busy year for the Form Ventures team! formventures.substack.com/p/15-unfinishe…

Well done to Form Ventures Leo Ringer Andrew Bennett and team for a great event this morning on the importance of regulation/regulators for startups. Checkout their great report here: formventures.notion.site/Fix-The-Regula…

Thanks to everyone that came down to our FORM Summit this morning! When you ask a VC or founder about regulation and government, “f*ck the regulators” isn’t an uncommon response. If you go by Marc Andreessen’s latest screed, regulation is the enemy of tech, and vice versa. But

“Until the UK fixes, funds and speeds up its approval processes, its dreams of turning frontier tech sectors into thriving industries may be frustrated” Great Peter Foster Madeleine Speed Big Read in today’s Financial Times on the creaking state of the UK’s regulators, and the impact on UK’s

Thanks to Peter Foster and Madeleine Speed for speaking with Leo Ringer and Andrew Bennett about the UK’s regulators — and how to fix and fund them to support UK startups:

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New post. I tried to summarize my POV on Europe. More importantly, i share share two small suggestions that, as a first step, could bring us back on track. 🇪🇺 eu/acc klinger.io/posts/eu-acc

let's talk about ~regulatory capture in AI~ wrote something with @patrick_newton1 that might annoy everyone (sorry not sorry) quick thread

For many startups, regulation has become the biggest barrier to growth. Over-stretched & underfunded, regulators have been struggling to keep up amid rapid technological change. ✍️ Leo Ringer & Andrew Bennett of Form Ventures set out the case for reform ➡️ futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/2024/06/12/why…

Great interview with Sir Patrick Vallance in the Form Ventures newsletter today. ‘For regulators, the incentive to take risk is virtually zero. We need strong political leadership and to give regulators a clear mandate for innovation’ Worth a read: formventures.substack.com/p/sir-patrick-…