If you’re a European founder applying for YC this week have a chat to Michelle You. She was in the 3rd YC batch way back in summer 2007

The best investor updates I see come from tobymather Lingumi. Read his post sharing his format for whole-team KPI emails, investor updates & board packs deliberateceo.substack.com/p/how-i-write-…

7 months off Twitter. What have I missed!?

Today @ZegoCover announced their $150m Series C, led by DST Global with General Catalyst @gcvp. Congrats @SaarSten, Harry Franks & team on building London's first insurtech unicorn!

Some things you may not know about @ZegoCover- diversity & inclusion really matters to this team. They've nearly doubled the % of women in tech roles over the last year to 35%- a team led by CTO Vicky Wills. As Vicky says herself - watch this space for when we’re celebrating 50%!

Had a preview of what Gamma is building and it’s awesome

Silicon Valley Bank’s shareholders will and should lose everything. We need to ensure depositors have access to 100% of their deposits to enable staff and suppliers to be paid. Anything short of that plan by 9am Monday will be toxic for the science, tech and innovation ecosystem

Congrats HMT and teams who worked through last 72 hours to have ecosystem operating again by 9am - incredible to see everyone across government and ecosystem pull together to be in this place by Morning start of business 👏

Anaemic UK growth while £300bn sits idle in Cash ISAs. We're uniquely rewarding people for NOT investing in growth - the only major economy giving tax breaks for keeping savings in cash