2025-10-20
one area most ‘uk/european dynamism’ investors go wrong is they have nothing to say about *culture* or if they do, it's just Euro-dunking / US sycophancy deep tech revival is great, but as yet no one is really building a *civilisational* project here
New York Times
A profile of Katherine Boyle, an a16z general partner and JD Vance's friend, as Silicon Valley increasingly adopts her views, including embracing defense tech
Katherine Boyle, an influential venture capitalist who is a friend of the vice president, thinks the country's path forward …
2023-11-28
regulation & geopolitical risks = key challenges facing European tech, according to @atomico State of European Tech 👀 @formventureshq
TechCrunch
Atomico: European startups are on track to raise $45B in 2023, down from $85B in 2022; just seven unicorns are expected in 2023, vs. 48 in 2022 and 108 in 2021
The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events — continues to persist …
2023-10-09
More GDP is being regulated. We @formventureshq work with the best founders to optimise their regulatory strategy like they would any other function. Great that @ycombinator getting into policy too
Axios
Y Combinator hires Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for publicly criticizing Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics
2023-10-08
More GDP is being regulated. We @formventureshq work with the best founders to optimise their regulatory strategy like they would any other function. Great that @ycombinator getting into policy too
Axios
Y Combinator hires Yelp policy chief Luther Lowe, best known for his public criticism of Google, to lead public policy, as the accelerator embraces politics
Best known for his relentless public criticism of Google as a monopoly, longtime Yelp public policy chief Luther Lowe has a new gig: heading up policy efforts for Y Combinator.