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Ian Hogarth

@soundboy

investor @pluralplatform; chair UK AI Safety Institute; co-author @stateofaireport; co-founder @songkick; chair @PhasecraftLtd

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This interview will spread quietly from founder to founder. It's striking that without Parker Conrad's success with Rippling and Jessica & Carolyn's lack of deference to powerful people he would have struggled to tell his side of the story: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/par…

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UK stand up tall! Really remarkable and shows the potential for European robotics companies to push the frontier.

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The VC lemming fusion bubble of the late 2020s is going to be thing to behold. Amazing how few venture investors have the courage now. Kudos to Vinod Khosla Sam Altman Breakthrough Energy for having the audacity to go early. Proxima Fusion is our hope for Europe!

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'A key driver has been the country’s investment culture, which Carnegie’s Elofsson says has attracted 'everyone from the man on the street to very engaged private banking investors, entrepreneurs, but also the small and mid-cap investment community'' ft.com/content/edc1bb…

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This is why at Plural we are bullish on start-ups like Robin AI who embrace having a 'lawyer in the loop' vs trying to sell pure software. Has lead to substantial revenue growth, happy customers and low churn. Suspect more investors will come to see this in the next 12 months.

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I've been working on start-ups in London since 2007 (when there were a tiny number of start-ups). Pretty amazing to see the ecosystem continue to scale: pitchbook.com/news/articles/…

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One underrated aspect of Google is that they have chips comparable to NVIDIA hardware - but took a rumoured $10b of investment over a decade to create that capability. Would be interesting to see what valuation the TPU org would get if spun out as indep company

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