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United Kingdom

also referred to as: u.k. · uk

105 statements across 63 episodes · 40 bullish · 32 bearish · 60 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2015 by Thomas Jones · said 1,254 times in 405 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Everything said about United Kingdom, oldest first

Feb 9, 2015 neutral
Opinion
Product culture is stronger in the US, services culture in Europe
“The product culture is stronger in America, and the services culture is stronger in Europe, and in particular in London and the UK.”
Thomas Jones Feb 9, 2015 ▶ 11:57 20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones
Mar 30, 2015 neutral
Assertion Supported
UK angel investment totals approximately £1 billion annually
“You know, you talk about angel investment being at about a billion pounds a year in the UK.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 14:39 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Mar 30, 2015 neutral
Assertion Supported
£84 million was raised through UK equity crowdfunding in 2014
“Last year, there was eighty-four million done through, through equity crowdfunding, right?”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 14:22 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Apr 2, 2015 neutral
Assertion Supported
Around 40,000 people work in the UK fintech sector
“You're, I think having around 40,000 people working somehow connected to the fintech industry.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 13:49 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
Apr 2, 2015 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Swiss fintech will compete directly with the UK by 2017
“But I mean, it looks promising that we will accelerate and hopefully, I would say in two years from now can catch up and compete directly to first movers like the UK, for example.”
Marc Bernegger Apr 2, 2015 ▶ 14:02 20 VC 024: Financing Finch with Marc Bernegger of Orange Growth Capital
May 25, 2015 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Menashy: EIS tax scheme made the UK a top European VC hub
“EIS is a fantastic example that has made London one of the best places, and the UK generally, one of the best places to raise venture capital funding in Europe, and it's brought a lot more capital into the market from sources that might otherwise not be lookin…”
Simon Menashy May 25, 2015 ▶ 12:27 How to Pitch a Top VC with Simon Menashy @ MMC Ventures
Jun 11, 2015
Assertion Supported
UK SEIS first-year investment exceeded £82 million
“I know the first year, it was over eighty-two million just in SCIS investments.”
Doug Scott Jun 11, 2015 ▶ 20:39 20 VC 044: Dominating AngelList Syndicates with Doug Scott
Aug 10, 2015 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
French startup tax benefits are weaker than UK's SEIS and EIS
“There was the ISF kind of tax benefit, which still is, is available, but they're nowhere near as advantageous as SEIS, NEIS in in the UK.”
Roxanne Varza Aug 10, 2015 ▶ 5:08 20 VC 061: Roxanne Varza on Pitching A VC in 10 Minutes and Maximising Media Exposure For Your Startup
Nov 2, 2015 bullish
Prediction Held up
Nussenbaum predicted a surge of new UK VC firms in late 2015
“There's much more new VCs coming in the market in the UK. We've seen a few last year with Arcef, Mosaic, and so on, and there will be much more in, in the next few months.”
Antoine Nussenbaum Nov 2, 2015 ▶ 14:19 20 VC 084: Meet Felix Capital: A Venture Firm For The Creative Class with Antoine Nussenbaum
Nov 6, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Biggart: US corporate catering market is eight times larger than UK
“America is a huge market and it's eight times the size of the UK.”
Willie Biggart Nov 6, 2015 ▶ 8:11 20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
Nov 6, 2015 bullish
Disclosure
Biggart: Spoonfed in advanced diligence with major US and UK food retailers
“We're in advanced diligence stage with two major retailers, one in the U.K. Part of a big food services group, and another in America, which they're testing it in New York, but they have a number of branches throughout the world.”
Willie Biggart Nov 6, 2015 ▶ 8:28 20 VC FF 20: Shaking Up The Food Industry With Willie Biggart @ Spoonfed
Nov 20, 2015 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Mitra: The UK leads global crowdfunding market growth over the US
“If you look at the crowdfunding sort of growth across the world, and I think you'll find UK is actually leading the market in that way before SEC.”
Ayan Mitra Nov 20, 2015 ▶ 4:29 20 VC FF 022: Crowdfunding Is Here To Stay with Ayan Mitra, Founder & CEO @ Crowdbnk
Dec 16, 2015 positive
Assertion Supported
Bradley: The UK Market Is Large Enough For Venture-Scale Exits
“And we have big enough markets here in the UK to generate venture scale exits.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 16:17 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Dec 16, 2015 neutral
Assertion Supported
Bradley: UK And Europe Offer More Government Grants Than The US
“There'd be a huge much more venture money available in America, but conversely here in the UK, we have there's more government money and tax breaks here as well as in Europe.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 17:29 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Mar 9, 2016 negative
Assertion Partly supported
UK Series A funding grew only 1.4x between 2011 and 2016
“Series A had actually only gone up, I believe, 1.4 X in that same period.”
Christian Hernandez Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 5:24 20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
Mar 9, 2016 bullish
Assertion Contradicted
UK seed investments grew 10x between 2011 and 2016
“Seed investments in the UK have gone up 10 X in the last five years.”
Christian Hernandez Mar 9, 2016 ▶ 5:14 20VC: Christian Hernandez on The Importance of Mobile and The Relationship Between Growth vs Revenue
May 20, 2016 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Drury: Xero is a UK leader and beat Sage to cloud accounting
“We're a leader in the UK, and we've beaten Sage to the cloud”
Rod Drury May 20, 2016 ▶ 12:30 20VC: Xero's Rod Drury on IPO on Day 1 To Hedge Fund to VC & Doing Startups Backward
Aug 19, 2016 neutral
Insight
Berberian: Direct-to-consumer hardware sales are primarily a US and UK phenomenon
“I mean, we're bullish on that because it's obviously better margin for us, but it's a U.S. Phenomenon primarily, and maybe a little bit in the U.K. In other markets, it's still very much brick and mortar, and so you have to take an omni-channel approach.”
Paul Berberian Aug 19, 2016 ▶ 11:03 20VC: How Entrepreneurs Should Manage Their Board & Why Time Constraints Are Always The Key To Progress with Paul Berberian @ Sphero
Jan 12, 2018
Disclosure
Davis: Glossier delayed UK expansion for three years due to infrastructure
“We're three years and six days old now, and it took us three years to come to the UK despite demand from the beginning. And we would have loved to have been able to do that right away. But as a company, we didn't have the infrastructure to be able to offer the…”
Henry Davis Jan 12, 2018 ▶ 23:20 20VC: Why Risk Is Misunderstood In Entrepreneurship, Why Acquisitions Are Cheap For Incumbents Today & 3 Strategies To Improve Diversity In Your Team with Henry Davis, President & COO @ Glossier
Nov 30, 2018 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Blomfield: Monzo UK brand awareness is approximately 15%
“Our brand awareness at the moment in the UK is something like 15%.”
Tom Blomfield Nov 30, 2018 ▶ 16:47 20VC: Monzo's Tom Blomfield on The 3 Phases of Startup Scaling, The Secret To Building a 1.2m Community with No Advertising & How To Use Boards As A Tool To Instil Operational Excellence
Jun 7, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Perret: UK banking licenses are far easier to obtain than US licenses
“Getting a banking license in the U.K. Is doable, and getting a banking license in the U.S. Is very hard, takes quite a lot of time.”
Zach Perret Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 24:53 20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
Jun 7, 2019 bullish
Prediction Partly held up
Perret predicts European neobanks will expand to the US by 2021
“We're going to see a lot of the neobanks coming to the U.S., I suspect, in the next year to two years, and I suspect that we'll see a lot of U.S. Companies coming to the U.K. As well, where they'll be launching more neobank-like products.”
Zach Perret Jun 7, 2019 ▶ 25:08 20VC: Plaid's Zach Perret on Why You Have To Hire For Spikes and What That Really Means, Fintech Predictions From Incumbent Entrants To The Rise of Europe & The 2 Big Questions That CEOs Should Ask Themselves
Jul 7, 2020 negative
Opinion
Lonsdale: UK laws policing offensive online speech are a huge mistake
“First of all, I think the UK does have, like, strange online speech laws where, like, the police will visit you for saying things that if they find offensive, which I think is just absolutely unacceptable. I think you guys have been a huge mistake there.”
Joe Lonsdale Jul 7, 2020 ▶ 23:19 20VC: 8VC's Joe Lonsdale on How To Foster Contrarian Thinking Within Venture Partnerships, Why The Best VCs Are Company Builders & Why It Is Not Possible To Build Multi-Billion Dollar Companies and Have Worklife Balance
Jul 10, 2020 bullish
Assertion Supported
The Athletic surpassed 100,000 paying UK subscribers within one year
“And so, those advantages, they seem small on paper, but here we are a year later, and we're well north of a 100,000 paying subscribers in the UK, building a really great product for fans all over the world.”
Alex Mather Jul 10, 2020 ▶ 9:23 20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
Jul 10, 2020 positive
Assertion Supported
The Athletic launched in the UK with 55 employees within 119 days
“And a 119 days later, we had 55 full-time employees in the UK, and we were launching.”
Alex Mather Jul 10, 2020 ▶ 9:00 20VC: The Future of Subscription Media, Why Startups Need To Stop Blaming Facebook and Google & How Founders Should Think Through Customer Acquisition Channel Dependencies with Alex Mather, Founder & CEO @ The Athletic
Sep 11, 2020 negative
Opinion
Alex Tew: The UK has very few publicly successful entrepreneurs
“Richard Branson, childhood hero in many ways, and one of the very few examples of publicly successful entrepreneurs in the UK. Obviously, the US has many, many more”
Alex Tew Sep 11, 2020 ▶ 28:17 20VC: Calm Founder Alex Tew on What It Takes To Build Viral Products Today, The Current State of Customer Acquisition Costs, What Makes The Best Brands
Dec 17, 2020 negative
Opinion
Hsu finds Silicon Valley insular compared to the UK tech scene
“Silicon Valley texting is quite insular. It's funny you ask this, because to some extent, I suppose the texting in the UK is definitely smaller, but it's actually, I think, much more positive and uplifting to some extent. I think, you know, the rest of British…”
David Hsu Dec 17, 2020 ▶ 33:53 20VC: Retool Founder, David Hsu on Why YC Is Helpful Pre Product-Market Fit but Not Post and Why VCs Are Not Helpful Pre-Product Market-Fit but are Post, Why it is Difficult to Become Unprofitable if You Set Yourself Up For Profitability Early & Why VC Th
Jun 21, 2021 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Rishi Sunak: UK innovator visa program has underperformed
“That has definitely not worked as well as we would have wanted it to”
Rishi Sunak Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 10:31 20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
Jun 21, 2021 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sunak: 2021 UK budget delivers most far-reaching migration reforms in years
“So at the budget, we announced what I think are probably the most far-reaching set of reforms to high-skill migration that we've seen in this country for years.”
Rishi Sunak Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 9:46 20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
Jun 21, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sunak: Five-year target is maximum employment and controlling national debt
“So five years' time, I just want to get everyone into work, get everyone back into work, create as many jobs as possible, fix our borrowing and debt, which is obviously taking an absolute hammering and get that back under control.”
Rishi Sunak Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 27:25 20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
Jun 21, 2021 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sunak: Visa reforms will make UK top global destination for tech talent
“I think if we do all of those things, I think we can confidently say that this is probably the country with the most supportive regime for attracting talented people to come work here, set up businesses or work and growing companies.”
Rishi Sunak Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 10:58 20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
Jun 21, 2021
Insight
Sunak: Resource allocation trade-offs are the hardest part of governance
“The hardest thing is trying to divide up the pie, right, and that is the hardest part of my job. We have a pie, it's a big pie, it's a growing pie, but You know, dividing it up is tough, because that means I have to say no to some people, and everyone will wan…”
Rishi Sunak Jun 21, 2021 ▶ 26:34 20VC: Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet, What Can Be Done To Drive Further Investment in UK Venture & A Breakdown of Morning Routines, Peloton Favourites and Managing Nerves
Sep 16, 2021
Insight
Salur: Delivery viability depends on labor-to-basket size ratio, not absolute costs
“What matters is this, your per hour cost of the delivery versus the basket, the ratio there. So let's say if my labor costs in the UK is twice as much, and my basket size is 2.2 times as much, my labor, although I pay twice, is less in the UK than Turkey. It's…”
Nazim Salur Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 26:03 20VC: Getir Founder, Nazim Salur on The Future of Last Mile Convenience, Who Will Win? Lessons on Driver Acquisition and Efficiency, Zone Maturity and Time To Profitability and Scaling to 300 Cities in the US in 2022
Oct 25, 2022 bullish
Assertion Supported
Sunak: UK effective capital gains tax is 20% versus 37% in California
“You'll probably pay 20% capital gains tax rates in the UK on all of that. In France, when all is said and done, you're probably paying closer to 30. And in California, which we all love and celebrate, you're probably paying close to the 37, right, when you add…”
Rishi Sunak Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 15:22 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Sunak: 80% of former Entrepreneurs' Relief users benefit from reformed policy
“80% of the people who were using the relief before still benefit from what's been put in place.”
Rishi Sunak Oct 25, 2022 ▶ 14:46 UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Turning the UK Into a Talent Magnet | Full Interview · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 2, 2022 bullish
Prediction Not publicly verifiable
Ilishayev: GoPuff UK market share will reach low-to-mid 30s within two months
“We're now like, I think, 25% market share in the UK and instant needs. You know, that in the next two months will be in the low to mid thirties, right?”
Rafael Ilishayev Nov 2, 2022 ▶ 35:40 GoPuff CEO Rafael Ilishayev: The Plan to Make GoPuff Profitable by 2024 | 20VC #944 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 13, 2023 positive
Assertion Supported
Lemkin: The US healthcare sector shows zero software spending downturn
“In the US, there's no downturn in healthcare right now. There's nothing, and I can't imagine it's different in the UK.”
Jason Lemkin Jan 13, 2023 ▶ 8:29 Jason Lemkin: WTF is Going On in VC? Are LPs Investing in New Funds? | 20VC #965 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 17, 2023 positive
Opinion
Mostaque: UK has the best AI regulations and talent policies outside Japan
“It's had the best apart from maybe Japan, yes.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 50:13 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 17, 2023 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mostaque: India and Emerging Markets Will Adopt AI Faster Than UK
“Realizing that India and other nations will leapfrog to intelligence augmentation, just that they leapfrog to mobile, they will embrace this technology far quicker than we will in the UK even.”
Emad Mostaque May 17, 2023 ▶ 23:34 Emad Mostaque: These 5 Companies Will Win the AI War; Why We Need National Data Sets | E1015 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 14, 2023 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Sunak: a16z, Palantir, OpenAI, and Anthropic are establishing UK offices
“Andreessen Horowitz, you know, all the world's most successful VC investors opening their first international office here in the UK. And that just comes on the back of Palantir saying that they're going to do their AI headquarters for research here in the UK. …”
Rishi Sunak Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 5:38 Rishi Sunak: The UK's New High Potential Visa; Rishi's £100M AI Task Force | E1025 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 14, 2023
Prediction Held up
Rishi Sunak: UK initiative will mandate math education up to age 18
“Something that I'm really passionate about is having more children study maths, and one of my initiatives is to have maths be studied up to AT.”
Rishi Sunak Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 14:38 Rishi Sunak: The UK's New High Potential Visa; Rishi's £100M AI Task Force | E1025 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 14, 2023 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Sunak: UK creates more unicorns than any country except US and China
“More than France and Germany combined, more unicorns than anywhere apart from the US and China.”
Rishi Sunak Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 5:12 Rishi Sunak: The UK's New High Potential Visa; Rishi's £100M AI Task Force | E1025 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 14, 2023
Assertion Supported
Sunak: UK is an outlier allowing students to drop math at 16
“We are a global outlier in allowing our children to stop studying maths at 16, and almost all developed countries have the study of maths go all the way to 18 years old.”
Rishi Sunak Jun 14, 2023 ▶ 14:49 Rishi Sunak: The UK's New High Potential Visa; Rishi's £100M AI Task Force | E1025 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2023
Insight
Babayigit: UK and US Candidates Wanting Cash Over Equity Signal Misalignment
“It's a bit cultural dependent because, you know, there are parts of Europe where that's just not a thing. Like people just, people think you're trying to pull a fast one on them. If you say, I'm going to give you equity. And so it is, you know, case by case. B…”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:09:23 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2023 positive
Opinion
Babayigit: Rishi Sunak has a pro-business, tech-friendly agenda
“The fact that Rishi is, you know, the prime minister out of all the kind of candidates, I actually think he has a pro-business agenda, which I really like, and he has this kind of ability to articulate a vision that is, you know, tech friendly.”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:11:06 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 26, 2023 negative
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2028
Babayigit: Lower foreign tax rates will not tempt him to leave the UK
“It's not tempting enough to upset the settled lifestyle that I created for my children, right? My children are very British, which is hilarious thinking about it now, but they are very British, and they have friends here, they have schools here, my wife loves …”
Akin Babayigit Jun 26, 2023 ▶ 1:15:15 Akin Babayigit: How Tripledot Studios Became #1 Fastest-Growing Company in Europe | E1030 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 9, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Farquhar: 80% of Atlassian's UK workforce lives outside London
“80% of our staff in the UK live outside of London.”
Scott Farquhar Oct 9, 2023 ▶ 28:26 Scott Farquhar: Founding Atlassian; How We Scaled to a $50B Valuation; The 4 Jobs of a CEO | E1070 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 8, 2023
Assertion Supported
Cohen: UK youth average over an hour daily on TikTok
“There was a very interesting recent large scale survey in the UK, which it said that I think young people in the UK are watching over an hour's TikTok a day now, on average, which seems astonishing for one platform.”
Danny Cohen Nov 8, 2023 ▶ 10:08 Danny Cohen: From Leading the BBC to Leading Venture Capitalist |E1079 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 26, 2024 negative
Opinion
Ripley: SEC's Crypto Approach Is Flawed Compared to Canada and Europe
“Their entire approach is off. Right. So it's just completely off. And so the right approach is what we see everywhere, what we see in Canada and in Europe and in UK where parliament or legislatures work, work to put in place proper laws.”
Dave Ripley Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 7:34 Dave Ripley: Are the SEC Overreaching with its Approach to Crypto? Should Gensler Step Down? | E1108 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 12, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plantenga: Vinted required five or six attempts before succeeding in the UK
“But yeah, so, so along the way, many failures and many failed launches, like the UK took, I don't know if it's six or five times before it worked.”
Thomas Plantenga Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 25:17 Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 12, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Plantenga: Vinted's initial expansion tests in the US and UK horribly failed
“And then we got really excited and I was like, okay, let's just test some stuff in the UK and the U S which horribly failed.”
Thomas Plantenga Feb 12, 2024 ▶ 23:59 Thomas Plantenga & Alex Taussig: Vinted CEO's Ultimate Guide to Scaling Marketplaces | E1114 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 21, 2024
Assertion Supported
Revolut grew fastest in Ireland, Romania, and Poland, not the UK
“So if you think about Revolut against Monzo, right, like the markets we grew the fastest wasn't the UK. It was Ireland, it was Romania, Poland.”
Val Scholz Jun 21, 2024 ▶ 0:04 Val Scholz: How Revolut Acquired Their First 10M Users: Tips, Tactics & Strategies | E1168 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 1, 2024 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Matt Clifford: The UK Can Return to Being the World's Richest Country
“I think the UK can go back to being pretty much the richest country in the world per capita. I really truly believe that.”
Matt Clifford Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 34:20 Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 1, 2024
What-if
Matt Clifford: Europe and India Would Rival Silicon Valley With Top Talent
“Like, why does Silicon Valley work? Because the most ambitious and talented people in that area become founders. If the same thing happened, In the UK, in Europe, in India, we'd have very similar outcomes.”
Matt Clifford Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 52:51 Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 1, 2024 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Matt Clifford: UK Has Less AI Regulation Than Any Major Tech Nation
“On AI the UK has less regulation than any other country that has a significant AI industry.”
Matt Clifford Jul 1, 2024 ▶ 32:24 Matt Clifford: The Bull & Bear Case for China's Ability to Challenge the US' AI Capabilities | E1172 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 29, 2024 bearish
Opinion
Asparouhov: Western Europe is in societal collapse from socialism and regulation
“When you look at United Kingdom, France, Spain, Germany, et cetera, they're all just like completely, you know, sort of falling into societal collapse all for, you know, sort of slightly different reasons, but it comes down to a complete lack of, you know, sor…”
Delian Asparouhov Jul 29, 2024 ▶ 3:57 Delian Asparouhov: Inside the Walls of Founders Fund: What the World Does Not See | E1183 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 12, 2024 negative
Opinion
Stebbings: UK Labour Party is the worst thing for Britain
“Yeah, no, I changed my mind on Labour labor being actually maybe possibly good for the future of the United Kingdom, and now I've seen that Europe not Europe Labour, labor are probably the worst thing for the United Kingdom.”
Harry Stebbings Aug 12, 2024 ▶ 1:06:16 Shaun Maguire: Why Iran is the World's Greatest Evil & Trump is the Only Hope for Peace | E1189 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 9, 2024 negative
Opinion
Harry Stebbings: The UK is an ailing economy moving toward irrelevance
“We are an ailing economy that is slowly moving into complete irrelevance”
Harry Stebbings Sep 9, 2024 ▶ 1:07:39 Sean Rad: Lessons Scaling Tinder to the Fastest Growing Consumer Social App in History | E1199 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 20, 2024
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Carter: Quizlet's content creation metrics were higher in UK than US
“All of our content creation metrics in the UK, metrics like what percentage of teachers and students become content creators and how many pieces of content does each of those creators create? Those metrics were actually higher in the UK than in the US, which k…”
Phil Carter Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 17:00 Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 27, 2024
Disclosure
HubSpot tested UK demand with 4 a.m. Massachusetts shifts before opening Dublin
“Before we opened the office, I ended up hiring a bunch of young dads who would show up at four a.m. In Cambridge. Because they wanted to get home at two p.m. To be with their kids, and we were like, let's validate that demand. So we were selling early in the m…”
Jeetu Mahtani Sep 27, 2024 ▶ 8:53 Jeetu Mahtani, Sales Leader @Hubspot: How and When to Go International and Crush It | E1207 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 30, 2024
Disclosure
Tang: SHEIN does more business in rural UK than in London
“We do a lot more business in the rural areas, villages in UK than London, for example, and Paris, and the like, and America.”
Donald Tang Sep 30, 2024 ▶ 11:02 Donald Tang: How SHEIN Got So Big So Fast - The Fastest Growing Company in History | E1208 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 18, 2024 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Le Nel: Revolut's £600/Year 'Ultra' Plan Performs Strongly in UK and France
“This is working. Yeah, that's working. Especially, I mean, UK, France, and those markets is working really well.”
Antoine Le Nel Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 56:19 Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024 negative
Opinion
Harry Stebbings: Top global talent no longer wants to move to London
“Does the best talent want to come to London? And the answer for me is no.”
Harry Stebbings Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 4:05 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 1, 2024 neutral
What-if
Tenev: Expanding internationally earlier would have benefited Robinhood
“In a world where we could have done both I think learning to be an international company a couple of years earlier probably would have been a good thing.”
Vlad Tenev Nov 1, 2024 ▶ 25:45 Vlad Tenev, Co-Founder & CEO @Robinhood: The GameStop Saga & The Future of AI | E1222 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Opinion
Matt Grimm: UK defense spending is drastically too low
“U.K. Spending too little by a wide order of magnitude. Should be closer to the two and a half, three percent of GDP that everyone's committed that they should be spending on NATO. So it should be, my guess is like, 50% higher than that”
Matt Grimm Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 35:34 Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 11, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Grimm: The West lacks munitions capacity for a prolonged nation-state war
“The US right now does not have the production capacity, nor does the UK, nor does Australia, kind of the West at large, to make enough munitions to fully equip a prolonged nation on nation conflict.”
Matt Grimm Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 1:27:58 Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 11, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Grimm: Western allies will spend nearly $1.3T on defense in 2024
“In 2024 alone, US is spending about eight hundred and eighty billion on defense. The UK spending about seventy three billion more. The EU member countries are spending almost three hundred billion on top of that. Australia spending forty five billion on top of…”
Matt Grimm Nov 11, 2024 ▶ 33:23 Matt Grimm, Co-Founder @Anduril: How a Trump Administration Changes the Defence Industry | E1224 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Nov 27, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Hommels: Germany and UK have only four days of ammunition left
“The ammunition is, is a cruel one, yeah. So, so the numbers I have from the military is like four days in Germany and UK and five in France, which is 25% more, but it doesn't make a difference.”
Klaus Hommels Nov 27, 2024 ▶ 28:32 Klaus Hommels: Why "Portfolios are Merely a Construct to Make LPs Happy"? | E1231 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 2, 2024
Disclosure
Revolut must complete UK bank rollout before applying for US license
“So basically, first we need to roll out our U.K. Bank so go through all these mobilization conditions, and then put our U.K. Customers on the bank. As soon as we get it done, it actually unlocks us or our ability to apply for license in the U.S.”
Nik Storonsky Dec 2, 2024 ▶ 16:48 Nik Storonsky, Revolut Founder: What Revolut Needs to Do to Hit $100BN Valuation | E1233 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 16, 2024
Prediction Held up
Hoffman denies UK move rumors, remaining based in Seattle
“I will remain living in Seattle, Washington. It's my residence.”
Reid Hoffman Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 1:06 Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 16, 2024 negative
Opinion
Hoffman: Brexit was a terrible idea for the UK
“Maybe I can say this as an American, you know, Brexit was a terrible idea.”
Reid Hoffman Dec 16, 2024 ▶ 44:14 Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn & Paypal Founder: Trump Administration, Elon Musk and DOGE | E1239 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 15, 2025 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Riparbelli: One or two $10B+ UK tech companies will trigger ecosystem growth
“If we don't screw it up, we just need one or two companies to become plus ten billion dollar companies headquartered in the UK, then I think we'll really start to see the ecosystem grow.”
Victor Riparbelli Jan 15, 2025 ▶ 1:03:30 Victor Riparbelli, CEO @Synthesia: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs X.ai - Who Wins and Why | E1246 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Kanji: UK housing shortage driven by 30-year lack of water reservoir construction
“One of the biggest impediments to housing in the United Kingdom, and housing is a big deal in the United Kingdom, we don't have enough houses, is we did not build reservoirs 30 years ago.”
Hussein Kanji Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 1:00:17 Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 20, 2025 negative
Opinion
Kanji: Unified European entity initiative 'Europe Inc' is unnecessary
“It's like people want to solve Europe Inc. They want to make it really easy to incorporate a company in Europe. Like, why? Incorporate in Delaware or the UK? Like, problem solved.”
Hussein Kanji Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 59:40 Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 20, 2025
Disclosure
Kanji: Darktrace generated more early revenue and staff in US than UK
“Darktrace made more money in America than it did in the U.K. From the very early days. It had more staff in America than it did in the U.K.”
Hussein Kanji Jan 20, 2025 ▶ 55:15 Hussein Kanji, Founder @Hoxton Ventures: Why AI Means London Can Compete with the US | E1248 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 31, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
TS Anil: Monzo Is Now the Largest Digital Bank in the UK
“Here we are, right, the largest UK digital bank and, you know, so much more.”
TS Anil Jan 31, 2025 ▶ 6:11 TS Anil, CEO @Monzo: From Layoffs, Downrounds and Low Employee NPS, To $1BN in Revenue | E1254 · 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
Mar 12, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Östberg: Just Eat, Deliveroo, and Uber Eats are all profitable in the UK
“Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats, and they all make money in the UK, I would say decently so.”
Niklas Östberg Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 12:39 Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 12, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Östberg: Antitrust regulations prevent food delivery consolidation in the UK
“Now, I don't think that there is, it's possible to consolidate UK and a few other market due to high trust. Reasons. So you can probably not consult at Deliveroo and just eat the Uber and Deliveroo and so on.”
Niklas Östberg Mar 12, 2025 ▶ 13:44 Niklas Östberg, Founder @ Delivery Hero: Competing with Uber and Doordash in a Capital Arms Race · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 19, 2025 negative
Opinion
Singlehurst: LSE suffers from dual supply and demand crises
“I think it's a combination of there not being loads of amazing high growth companies in the UK, enlisted in the UK, so there's a supply problem, and I think there's a demand problem as well.”
Peter Singlehurst Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 54:25 Peter Singlehurst: Lessons from Turning Down Stripe, Coinbase and Losing Money on Northvalt · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2025
Hoggett: UK is second largest equity capital market in free-market world
“We are the second largest equity capital market in the world in a free market economy.”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 29:16 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Hoggett: UK creates more unicorns than any country besides US and China
“We create more unicorns than anywhere outside the US and China, and we're a world leading capital market by any measure.”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 2:17 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 28, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Hoggett: Removing UK domestic investment tax breaks depressed national investment
“So we used to have tax breaks to invest in the UK. We took them all away and then wondered why people didn't invest as much in the UK. Other countries do, don't do that.”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 26:00 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Mar 28, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Hoggett: The UK holds the world's second-largest pool of institutional capital
“We have the second largest pool of institutional capital in the world.”
Julia Hoggett Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 5:43 Julia Hoggett, CEO @ LSEG plc: The Myths and the Reality of The London Stock Exchange · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 bullish
Disclosure
Tom Hulme: GV has invested over $500M in the UK alone
“And so we've now done over 50 companies we've invested in 12 countries. We just break through half a billion dollars in the UK alone with our investment in isomorphic last week”
Tom Hulme Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 2:27 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Stan Boland: UK tax system propels zombie companies
“And I think there's a lot wrong, actually, with the UK tax system that is maintaining too many zombies, I think, in the UK.”
Stan Boland Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 55:14 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Boland: UK spends $7.5B annually on R&D tax credits across 55k SMEs
“We're currently investing about seven and a half billion dollars a year in R&D tax credits for SMEs in 55,000 companies per annum in the UK.”
Stan Boland Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 55:43 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Stan Boland: UK's £30B annual tech funding yields virtually no results
“This, 20, thirty billion a year that we pump in at the front end per annum in tech. So, like, a hundred and fifty billion over a parliament in university funding for science and tech, in SEIS, in EIS, in VCTs, in R&D tax credits, and patent box, and so on. All…”
Stan Boland Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 45:33 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Opinion
Stan Boland: UK EIS and VCT funds are largely ineffective
“Yeah, I think a lot of these EIS funds are not very effective and VCT funds are not very effective.”
Stan Boland Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 54:26 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Boland: UK AI talent supply remains net-flat as European gains offset US losses
“If you look at where talent is being born in, like, AI across Europe, and you look at where it lands in terms of where it stays, actually the UK is minting about the same talent it's keeping but that is a net-net, actually. So we're losing talent to the US and…”
Stan Boland Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 3:19 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Boland: US created $20T in decacorn value versus UK's $170B
“20 trillion dollars of value created in the last 50 years in building Decacorns in the US. The UK has created two, about a hundred and seventy billion of value in the UK.”
Stan Boland Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 0:00 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Hulme: High UK energy costs prevent competitive AI model training
“We have the, probably the highest electricity or energy costs in the whole of the Western world. In the UK. That just does not enable you to do a great job of this. It doesn't even enable you to do a great job of training foundation models. Like, if the blende…”
Tom Hulme Apr 10, 2025 ▶ 24:38 Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 26, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Airwallex took three years to reach product-market fit in the UK
“Yeah, it took me three years to get PMF in the UK.”
Jack Zhang May 26, 2025 ▶ 1:10:13 Airwallex CEO & Co-Founder, Jack Zhang: The Angel That Turned $1M into $1BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 22, 2025 negative
Assertion Open
Stebbings: UK Labour government triggered world's fastest millionaire exodus
“I've been very public on my concerns around the labor government in the UK and what it's done for the UK so far. It's the fastest access of millionaires out of any country.”
Harry Stebbings Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 25:34 General Catalyst CEO, Hemant Taneja: Lessons Scaling GC to $40BN in AUM · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 26, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Revolut struggled to scale UK payroll product at £5 per seat
“Trying to build a growth engine for a payroll product when the going price is about five pounds per seat in the UK and trying to do that scale, we found it very hard. We didn't manage to make it work.”
James Gibson Sep 26, 2025 ▶ 25:55 20Product: Revolut Business $1BN Revenue: Five of the Biggest Product Lessons | How Revolut Structures Product and Design Teams | How Revolut Experiments and Invests in New Product Bets | How Revolut Ships Product So Fast with James Gibson
Oct 20, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Bouaziz reveals Deel has acquired a well-known UK competitor
“We've actually acquired one company that, in the UK, a very known company in the UK in our space, and you'll, you'll know about it pretty soon.”
Alex Bouaziz Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 58:36 Deel CEO, Alex Bouaziz on Raising $300M+ at a $17BN Valuation · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 5, 2026 negative
Opinion
Chang: Developed economies are in an energy crisis, with the UK worst off
“I think we're in energy crisis already. In, in the whole developed economies, UK is in the deepest trouble.”
Alan Chang Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 18:37 Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 5, 2026 positive
Opinion
Alan Chang: Physical infrastructure construction in the UK should be deregulated
“I would deregulate building anything physical. I would make it so easy for anyone to build.”
Alan Chang Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 24:31 Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 5, 2026 positive
Opinion
Alan Chang: Matt Clifford would be a good leader for the UK
“Mac Clifford is a pretty good choice.”
Alan Chang Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 30:18 Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 5, 2026
Assertion Partly supported
Chang: UK energy consumption dropped 25% while China's grew 7x
“So if you look at energy consumption per capita in the last 25 years, UK has dropped 25%. In the US, it's been flat. In China, in the same period of time, it's gone up by seven times.”
Alan Chang Jan 5, 2026 ▶ 18:46 Fuse CEO Alan Chang: The Revolut Playbook of Speed & Ownership, Why Founders Aren’t Ambitious Enough · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 18, 2026 negative
Opinion
Browder: US startup ambition and outcomes are 100x larger than UK's
“One huge negative is the scale of ambition in the US is a hundred times bigger. The most successful companies in the UK are in the, like, tens of billions range, like Revolut and great outcomes like that. In the US, it's in the trillions, and it's just an orde…”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 1:27:07 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 18, 2026 positive
Opinion
Browder: UK offers less competition for talent and media than US
“Starting out in the UK, it's kind of less competitive for talent, less competitive for media even. Like, anyone can get on the front page of the Daily Mail with the right story. The media in the US is much more jaded, so it's a lot more noisy, a lot more compe…”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 1:23:41 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 23, 2026 negative
Opinion
Peets: Continental European tech sales talent lacks required work ethic
“I just think it's hard to find the types of people harder, I should say to find the types of people, particularly outside of the UK in Europe that are willing to put the effort in that I think is required to be successful. I just think it's challenging.”
Chad Peets May 23, 2026 ▶ 58:12 Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 18, 2026 negative
What-if
Fred Turner: Curative Could Not Have Been Built In The UK
“No, definitely not.”
Fred Turner Jul 18, 2026 ▶ 5:10 We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
Aug 24, 2026 bullish
Disclosure
Bek: Sequoia Backed UK AI Architecture Startup Ineffable in Large Seed
“Recently we backed a company called Ineffable here in the UK with a large seed round”
Julien Bek Aug 24, 2026 ▶ 11:41 Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
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