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They say it takes three data points to signal a pattern. So as we begin Volume 3, and kick off a new year, it feels like a good time to summarise what we’ve learned so far. Investors You do have more power than perhaps you…
Sofia Quintero’s career started in change management, before moving to advertising, then jumping into the tech industry and spending time at various startups. The common thread was listening to the customer, but it also gave her a humble advantage in understanding that EnjoyHQ didn’t have…
Gravity Sketch founder Oluwaseyi Sosanya is very clearly and deeply a designer above all. But he has had to learn a lot about sales and marketing to drive the company’s growth. VR may seem novel in the consumer space, but there’s real evidence that B2B…
As part of the early team at Revolut, Veronique Barbosa and her co-founders at Flux found themselves right at the front of a surge in fintech. But equally, they seem to have absorbed the importance of clarity of mission — a power which has driven…
Welcome back to another cohort of unsexy.tech founders and their stories — as usual, we have a real mixed set of experiences and lessons. We’ll hear about a very engineering-centric culture having to make the move to a design-first mentality at Element. Then we have…
Naturally every startup story is different — but one of the key details is whether or not the team comes from within the industry they are trying to change. There is nothing more futile than a tech genius that has so little experience of life…
Element (previously known as Riot) is a bold enterprise alternative to a messaging landscape dominated by what some might call surveillance capitalism. It’s also a prime example of a business that realises being mandated by “the powers that be” is not enough for adoption to…
Naturally, it’s good to be successful. But if you just follow the signal of demand, you might build a business that you don’t actually want to exist. Syd Lawrence founded The Bot Platform after many years as an innovative agency building tech and campaigning tools…
We have interviews with founders who are decades into their career. We have interviews with founders who have launched multiple startups. But this conversation with Cyril Lutterodt was a little different — speaking with a founder in his 20s, who is now in the process…