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Solly Solomou

15 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 14, 2025 by Solly Solomou · across every show →

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Feb 14, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solomou Used Accidental University Email Lists to Recruit Early LADbible Staff
“So what I did is I took all of those emails, Sent a note around saying, who would like to do some work experience? And I had a huge amount of applicants. So even in the early days where we had this office above the printer shop, I had like five people at a tim…”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 14:55 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 neutral
Insight
Solomou: Location is not a priority for early-stage founders focused on survival
“I think when you start a business, and this is just my personal experience, location, Isn't even on the mind. It's just survival or moving forward.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:00:38 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solly Solomou launched LADbible using takeaway box logo prints and direct local pitching
“I was utilizing the printer shop by getting these bugs printed off with the logo. Sending them all around the different takeaway companies. I was doing flyers, all of that kind of stuff. And then I was going around the cafes, bars, clubs, and selling them adve…”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 6:49 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Solomou: TikTok and Meta are top social platform buys
“I would say TikTok, I would buy. Meta, I would buy on their big bets that they've made.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:10:48 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025
Disclosure
Solomou invested £3,000 to £4,000 to launch his initial business
“So straight away, I probably had to outlay about three, 4000 pounds to facilitate during the year in industry.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 5:28 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Solomou: London Stock Exchange reforms will revitalize UK market investment
“I believe some of the steps that they're putting in place will certainly revitalize and rebuild some of that UK investment that maybe isn't there right now, and that is going into US markets and other places.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 57:58 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solomou: UK pension funds and ISAs hold underutilized growth capital
“There's a huge amount that is sat in ISAs, that is sat in low return pension funds that could be utilized to grow at higher rates, But also stimulate and encourage more innovation and more businesses in the UK market.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 58:38 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025
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Solomou: I rolled the dice on every decision before becoming a father
“Before, before I had Alfie, our first boy, I would just, I would roll the dice on every decision. Everything. Put, put it on the table. No problem.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:19:14 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Solomou messaged Facebook's CTO on LinkedIn to restore deplatformed LADbible page
“We managed to get through to the CTO. So we spoke to the CTO at the time, who very kindly spoke, he didn't have to take the call, he took the call, and in fairness, a week later it was sorted.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 12:47 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Held up
Solomou: TikTok Shop and social commerce will reach $1T within five years
“In the next five years or less, it's expected to be a one trillion market. The TikTok shop social commerce world overall is expected to be a one trillion market.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:05:14 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Solomou: Generative AI will compose 25-30% of future movie content
“So for us in an entertainment business, you can imagine a world where we're creating movies. And because of that democratization and the access to technology and using and embracing technology like that, the cost of creating a movie where maybe 25%, 30% of it …”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 46:53 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Solomou: All incumbent social tech giants including X will win
“I believe are all going to be winners. I don't think there's any of them that I would particularly show, including X on that basis. I've kind of taught myself, I've taught myself out of it now, but I just wouldn't.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:11:54 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 bearish
Assertion Supported
Solomou: Traditional media market share dropped from 80% to 20%
“Traditional TV, newspapers, magazines, et cetera. The numbers speak for themselves. That market has gone from being 70, 80% of the market down to 20%.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:03:27 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Solomou: The US market offers 5 to 8 times more opportunity than the UK
“Would they be bigger in the States? Well, you're talking a three hundred million population country versus seventy million here. You're talking a market that in some ways is nearly, you know, five to eight times the sizes here in the UK. So you do have more op…”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 1:01:12 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2025
Disclosure
Solomou bought the original LADbible Facebook page for low thousands
“So he's in the low thousands. I won't say specifically how much, but he's in the low thousands.”
Solly Solomou Feb 14, 2025 ▶ 9:33 Solly Solomou, Founder & CEO @ LADbible Group: From Penniless Shop Offices to Public Company | E1259 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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