A simple rule I taught my 9 yo today: If you can't figure something out, figure out how to figure it out.

Scoop: New £30m fintech venture fund nears close altfi.com/article/4832_e…

Number of Amazon employees: (worldwide) 2018: 613,300 2017: 566,000 2016: 341,400 2015: 230,800 2014: 154,100 2013: 117,300 2012: 88,400 2011: 56,200 2010: 33,700 2009: 24,300 2008: 20,700 2007: 17,000 2006: 13,900 2005: 12,000 2004: 9,000 2003: 7,800 2002: 7,500

It is incredibly valuable when you bring fast growing innovative companies and large corporates together. Today we brought London fintech entrepreneurs and large Chinese corporates together at @GotoGrow_London round table in Shanghai. #LondonIsOpen

Really excited to be joining @GotoGrow_London for the Cohort 11 launch to help us expand our business overseas #GotoGrow gotogrow.london #Brismo Brismo @GotoGrow_London

What an AMAZING day to be launching our 11th Cohort of 55 high growth companies onto the Mayors International Business Programme! 👊🏻 @GotoGrow_London #LondonIsOpen

Excited to meet our Mayor’s International Business Programme cohort peers and start our journey of international expansion #GotoGrow @gotogrow_London Brismo

mtg tip: push your team to express their doubts about the plan in the meeting, otherwise they will leave with them.

Wonderful. The replies on this Tweet are the British at their finest.

To read Jeff Bezos’ letters to #Amazon shareholders is to get a crash course in running a high-growth internet business from someone who mastered it before any playbooks were written. We analyzed the letters and unpacked the most important wisdom in each: cbi.vc/2RwHDXg

Brismo is pleased to announce its partnership with LendingClub ir.lendingclub.com/file/Index?Key…

Our competitors don't normally ask us for advice, but when an airline leader reached out, we couldn't ignore it. Naturally, there was only one way to respond: CEO to CEO.

No one cares about your product. Who built it, its features, the origin story — it’s all superfluous. People only find value in what your product can do for them right now. Save people time. Save people money. Give people an escape. The selfish hand will always govern.

Think we often underestimate the difficulty of anticipating the potential of product evolution. When The Twenty Minute VC started it was a podcast. Today it is: 📈 A data platform 📖 Likely largest single library of VC opinion collected. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 2,500+ active VC contact book.

There are more founders than ever but it seems harder to find builders: people who possess the tools and resilience to move the majority of an idea from zero to one.

Starting a business teaches you how to get things done with very little. Growing a business teaches you how to be data-informed. Scaling a business teaches you about yourself. You’ll never stop learning.

When startups think a partnership with some big company will be the silver bullet that makes them grow, they're usually mistaken. What makes you grow is building amazing things and making customers love you.

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The real winner is London with two amazing world class sporting events in a single day! #CWC19Final #Wimbledon #LondonIsOpen

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