Number of UK unicorns grew 10x in the last decade, with invested capital growing from €1B/year to €13B/year, but some worry Brexit will counteract the change
Financial Times : Tweets: @nathanbenaich , @danielthomasldn , @financialtimes , and @tbraithwaite Tweets: Nathan Benaich / @nathanbenaich : The environment for UK tech founders has come leaps and bounds in the last decade. In the next decade, we owe it to spinout founders to create a similarly amazing environment for translating research into local 🦄 Let's go! cc @spinoutfyi https://www.ft.com/... https://twitter.com/... Daniel Thomas / @danielthomasldn : ‘Why have we not grown any giant companies?’ Looking for answers on the UK's attempt to take on Silicon Valley with @tim @NicholasMegaw and an incredible commissioning and editing shift by @TBraithwaite and the companies team https://www.ft.com/... @financialtimes : 'UK culture doesn't celebrate the entrepreneur': The UK is yet to produce a huge global success on the scale of Silicon Valley's trillion-dollar companies, but founders remain optimistic https://www.ft.com/... Tom Braithwaite / @tbraithwaite : “Andreessen... were willing to fund us, with one catch: we had to move to California,” says Wise's Hinrikus. “We went back 2 years later... they were somewhat apologetic.” Great voices in this piece by @DanielThomasLDN @tim & @NicholasMegaw https://www.ft.com/...