The Lowdown #12

👋🏾 Hi friends!

Well it's been quite the week for the tech and venture ecosystem this week and in the UK's answer to the All In Pod (OK, sans besties and billions) I'll be exploring LIVE all sorts of things that are happening in the venture ecosystem with friends of the pod Eghosa Omoigui and Jonathan Sun 🚀 

Join us at 6pm UK time today with a glass of something nice and some popcorn and feel free to send us your spiciest takes and questions in the chat 💪 

Here’s the link to join - hope to see you there!

This week on Nothing Ventured I spoke to Sam Beni. If you want to hear a real hero’s journey, you definitely want to check this out.

From arriving in the UK as an asylum seeker and not being able to work, to co-founding a business he couldn’t take a salary in, or hold shares in and where he lived on the office sofa for years to founding and exiting multiple startups all culminating in his role as Head of Innovation at Tech Nation, Sam’s story is absolutely incredible. Check it out!

This week there have been a few things that have caught my eye in the tech and venture ecosystem and what we’ll be talking about this evening, namely:

🤖 What the hell is going on at OpenAI?
📉 Softbank and Tiger Global’s fall from grace
💰️ What’s the future for venture according to Sam Lessin

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Now let’s get into it.