The Lowdown #10

👋🏾 Hi friends!

It’s been a busy week for me, lots of calls as I get back into the swing of being back in London and building.

I did a live interview with Peter Walker, Carta’s Head of Insights yesterday evening where we took a deep dive into the data on the state of private markets driven by the 40,000 startups using Carta’s platform.

If you didn’t get a chance to join the live session, you can check it out here:

And I was also really excited to sit down with my good friend, and Head of Fuse - Allen & Overy’s legaltech incubator - Shruti Ajitsaria where, amdist a bunch of cheeky banter we talked about the future of the legal profession given the upsurge in legaltech, how her and her husband started angel investing by inviting founders over for a pizza and much more, check it out here:

But let’s get down to business, what are the things that have caught my eye in the tech and venture ecosystem this week?

We’re going to look at:

🤖 Open AI releases GPTs
✖️ X releases Grok - it’s answer to ChatGPT
👋 Fred Destin takes a breather

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