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Henry de Zoete

28 days

Just back from Seoul. Some thoughts on the joint UK-Korean AI Summit where I was co “sherpa” with the brilliant Imran Shafi, along with some general reflections on Government and AI over the last 12 months as a civil servant in Number 10…

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

2 years

Starting 2022 with a bang! 💥 Delighted to be joining the awesome @hornby as a NED. So many great brands like @Scalextric @corgi @Airfix @Humbrol to name just a few. Incredible history. Hugely exciting future! Toot toot 🚂

Tech investor Henry de Zoete joins model railway firm Hornby as NED

de Zoete said he is excited to give “strategic input” as the company “focuses on digital transformation and growth”

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2 years

“Questioning or contradicting the orthodoxy of a field or institution can be very necessary, and unlock new insights. But self-identifying as a contrarian is unwise, since maintaining and validating your self-image starts to take precedence over seeking truth.”🔥 by @mrianleslie

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6 years

Unbelievably happy to have got a deal with the awesome Dragons @jennybcampbell and @TejLalvani . Thank you to the brilliant @LAMB_GB team and my awesome co-founder @hodsonwill ! #LookAfterMyBills #AutoSwitching #DragonsDen

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6 years

Step 1. Secure a deal. Step 2. HUG. 🤗 #DragonsDen

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Henry de Zoete

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2 years

Any spads who are interested in doing a start up or working for a start up feel free to DM me. Happy to help if I can. I’m biased but I think spads make great founders. Spad life is pretty similar to start up life. Massively stretched and constantly putting out fires!

Jimmy McLoughlin 🐑🇺🇦

@jimmym

2 years

Tomorrow, a lot of No.10 Special Advisers and campaign staff will lose their jobs. Even those on the winning side will not be guaranteed a job afterwards! I have spoken to 150 former SpAds over the years and this is what they can go onto do next 👇👇 /1

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“CoreWeave, an American AI infrastructure group, is investing an initial £1 billion in Britain, in the third significant boost to the UK’s fast-growing AI sector this week.”

The Times & The Sunday Times

News and opinion from The Times & The Sunday Times

www.thetimes.com

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Henry de Zoete

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3 years

A little news >>>

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@HZoete

8 years

. @pmarca 's series of tweets all the way back from 2014 absolutely nail the truth about disruption. Must read.

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6 years

Tonight my co-founder @hodsonwill & I negotiated the best equity deal for our start up @LAMB_GB in @BBCDragonsDen there has ever been! Lowest amount of equity given away in 13 years and 16 series! #LookAfterMyBills #Autoswitching #DragonsDen

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Henry de Zoete

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6 years

At every England game since 2010. And finally I see us win a knockout game in a tournament #itscominghome #fromrussiawithlove

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

4 years

Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives.

Rita Issa

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4 years

I’m an NHS doctor I voiced this video from home, quarantined with symptoms of #COVID19 Please share & #StayHome

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1 year

Hinton is as close to a real genius as we get. He’s leaving millions on the table & publicly refuting his entire life’s work, just to try to warn humanity of the dangers of AI. How many people would do that? How concerned must he be?

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

6 years

Incredibly excited (and nervous! 😬) to be appearing on @BBCDragonsDen tonight with my brilliant co-founder @hodsonwill as we try and persuade the Dragons to back the future of personal finance @LAMB_GB #LookAfterMyBills #Autoswitching #DragonsDen

BBC Dragons' Den

@BBCDragonsDen

6 years

Hooray for Den Day! Here’s a little peek at tonight’s action with @toukersuleyman , @jennybcampbell , @DeborahMeaden , @TejLalvani and @dragonjones

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Henry de Zoete

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7 years

@SkyNews @skysarahjane BG claim price rise is because of higher costs. But Ofgem data shows their costs have fallen by 9% since Dec 2016

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2 years

This by @Alicebentinck & @matthewclifford just arrived! Got a horrible feeling it’s gonna make me want to do another start up 😬

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2 years

I used to think there would never be a European rival to @ycombinator . Not anymore! Huge congrats to @Alicebentinck @matthewclifford and the whole @join_ef team. The next decade is going to be very exciting!

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Henry de Zoete

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1 year

I never tweet about companies for poor service but now I have to. I’ve been blocked from my Coinbase account for 6 weeks. @CoinbaseSupport last replied to me on 14 Feb & nothing since despite my 10 DMs. Please help @brian_armstrong this is farcical. I’m a #COIN shareholder too!

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2 years

@Lis_Smith speaks the truth

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Henry de Zoete

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7 years

More Hong Kong typhoon footage. This one less scary. Check out the dude playing it cool while two people fly into a bush behind him!

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Henry de Zoete

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5 years

Big milestone for Look After My Bills - 200,000 members! Doubled in 7 months. Saved our members over £34 million in total. Big thank you to the brilliant and hard working @LAMB_GB team!

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Henry de Zoete

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2 years

@racheljanetwolf Great piece. And agree. But the problem also lies with a civil service where everyone changes jobs every 18 months to 2 years. The one advantage a permanent bureaucracy should have is experience and knowledge. But nope! The incentives are to encourage job hopping… 🤦‍♂️

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Henry de Zoete

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz Don’t think this is just tech but happening across a heap of sectors. Covid caused people to reassess and decide if what they are doing is really what they want

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

28 days

Countries (inc. U.S. & China), companies, academia & civil society all round one table discussing AI governance is a win. China taking part isn’t always popular but it’s important. You can’t have a serious discussion about AI governance without the second biggest AI power.

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Henry de Zoete

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2 years

Constraint = creativity

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@PierreDeWulf

2 years

🥷 Funny ways famous services exploited loopholes to get their first users! My favorite one is probably WhatsApp.

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

28 days

P.S. A thank you. There have been long nights, early mornings and ruined weekends. A crew of people working incredibly hard on this agenda. Going above and beyond. I won’t name names. You know who you are. Thank you. You are all ninjas. Next stop Paris! TTE IYKYK

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2 years

@GergelyOrosz Yes @thursdaydating are pioneering a new way. Focusing on real life meetings not swiping and texting. Less time on apps, more time with people. And massively boosting the nightlife sector too. Exciting times! (Full declaration - I’m a tiny angel investor)

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

28 days

- $1bn investment in UK autonomous vehicle start up @wayve_ai - $1bn investment into the U.K. by @CoreWeave . - @alexandr_wang announces Scale’s first office outside of the U.S. here. The UK punches about its weight in AI. And it must remain so.

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

2 years

Everything is about incentives.

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2 years

A striking graph of the percentage of New York Times headlines containing each president's name, by @brgrbrglr . Trump and the Times had a symbiotic relationship: he used them to get attention, and they used him to get subscribers.

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4 months

If anyone asks you if your start up is for sale, the answer is always no even if you would sell. Weeds out the people fishing and anyone serious will come back. Learnt that the hard way.

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@ankurnagpal

4 months

I sold my first startup in 2020 for a life changing amount Since then, I've talked to countless other founders who have gone down the same path Here is a thread of my best advice for startup founders on how to navigate the process of selling your company:

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2 years

Got to love a cheeky clipper ride to a meeting

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4 years

🚨MEGA MILESTONE KLAXON🚨Look After My Bills @LAMB_GB hits HALF A MILLION customers! £110 million put back in people’s pockets! Big love and shout out to all the amazing team who made this happen thanks to their hard work 👍👊💥🔥🚀

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

3 years

Am on Jazz FM! Life goal nailed 💪

Jazz FM

@jazzfm

3 years

Look After My Bills founders Henry De Zoete & Will Hodson are joining Elliot to discuss their famously successful Dragon’s Den pitch and their next steps after selling up Jazz Shapers with Elliott Moss and Mishcon De Reya, Saturdays from 9am 📻 | @elliot_moss @Mishcon_de_Reya |

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2 years

In a massive at least an hour queue to pick up a rental car thinking there must be a better way. Just like every start up founder on holiday. And will forget about it in 24 hours obvs

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1 year

What Match is doing is a total disgrace. Big company worth billions sues small rival hoping to bury them.

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@ShahzadYounas_

1 year

Following our UK appeal,Match Group who tried to buy us,have an estimated 50% mkt share of the global online dating mkt just sued us (Muzz) for the THIRD time. It is time for the Federal Trade Commission to look into this aggressive litigious behaviour. 1/10 @FTC @MetOnMuzz

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1 year

This is the best piece of direct mail I’ve seen in ages. Localised, social proof and a killer PS (the PS is always read first and the most important bit of any comms). Hats off to @Nextdoor Bet this has higher conversion & ROI than their digital ads. Thoughts on improving ⬇️

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10 months

It’s genuinely incredible what @soundboy @michelledonelan and the whole team at @SciTechgovuk have achieved with the Frontier AI Taskforce in just a few weeks. Plenty more to come! IYKYK

Ian Hogarth

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1/ 11 weeks ago I agreed to Chair the UK's efforts to accelerate state capacity in AI Safety - measuring and mitigating the risks of frontier models so we can safety capture their opportunities. Here is our first progress report:

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3 years

Before After (with the legends @P_R_Stephenson @AhpyBokpe Benny Mascall)

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3 years

@mrianleslie I enjoyed Maradona. Had no idea about the Napoli stuff

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

28 days

And I’m grateful to our French colleagues for taking on the baton and hosting the next summit in February. As a former @ycombinator founder it should come as no surprise to anyone that I love AI. It’s great to see some big recent wins for the UK and AI:

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Henry de Zoete

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1 year

Now way less people have business cards it’s quite a nice way to stand out. Got handed one today and was pleasantly surprised.

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3 years

#NewProfilePic

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Henry de Zoete

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2 years

I’m normally a huge fan of @RevolutApp but having a nightmare. Asked to do an ID check I’ve had no access to my account for nearly 2 weeks! I’ve had payments to me rejected and yet Revolut have still taken their monthly payment! Can anyone help speed this up please @RevolutApp ?

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1 year

No need to worry. Just the godfather of AI saying he regrets his entire life’s work

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2 years

This really hit me hard.

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2 years

Meet the TX man who’s making customized caskets for each of the 19 young victims and two teachers from the school shooting in #Uvalde . Trey Ganem visited with the families last week so each casket is personalized to include each child's interests. 📷: SoulShine Industries

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28 days

This tech is the most important in history. It’s also moving faster than any in history. Maybe the scaling laws bend. Maybe they don’t. But it’s the duty of Govts to assess the full range of scenarios. And prepare a range of plans accordingly. Speed is of the essence.

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Henry de Zoete

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8 months

Sunak the influencer: How the UK’s AI summit surprised the skeptics

Gray skies and drizzle at Bletchley Park couldn’t rain on Rishi Sunak’s parade as the British PM capped off a successful AI summit.

www.politico.eu

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@HZoete

3 years

Strong agree with this. Uncomfortable but worth it. I’d add a fourth reason - it’s much harder for someone to do you over if they have met you personally. Works both ways obviously but a net positive. Make friends!

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@gokulr

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CEOs: It’s important to have a cordial relationship with the CEOs of your competitors and to meet with them on a regular basis. Why? Three reasons, which ultimately all boil down to humanizing your competitors and not having them feel like a black box.

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3 years

Two companies I angel invested in have got into the latest @ycombinator batch! Boom! 🚀🚀🚀

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1 year

Great piece on start up culture.

80% of Your Culture is Your Founder

Molly Graham joined Facebook at 400 employees and helped turn a culture of chaos into a streamlined organization. Here's how she did it.

review.firstround.com

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6 years

Good thread on the Tube going quietly bust

Jim Pickard 🐋

@PickardJE

6 years

The finances of Transport for London are more interesting than you might realise.

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2 years

TFW your three year old says “I knew you could do it” when you finally get the dippy egg runny on the third attempt

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3 years

@wes_kao Great thread. Do you think this also depends on the age of the business? A brand new start up needs to focus on performance. As it grows it can move towards brand. I see too many very early start ups who stress about their brand when they just need customers… what do think?

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

28 days

2. Two summits building international consensus on AI risks and safety. Seoul would not have been possible without Bletchley and the amazing work of the DSIT team and negotiators @matthewclifford and @JonathanBlackUK

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28 days

3. First ever IPCC style report into the state of the science of AI with support from 30 countries across the globe. Hats off to Yoshua and the team behind it. Can’t wait for the next one for the French summit. Rishi Bommasani summed it up well here

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What I appreciate about this report is that it identified bonafide experts in AI, who do not agree on everything but share a constructive lens, and had them write a serious piece characterizing the state of science. This piece should and will inform policymaking.

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6 years

Big shout out to my amazing Look After My Bills co-founder @hodsonwill who is doing @ycombinator alumni demo day today!!! We are one of the 35% international teams in YC W18!!! Boom!!!

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Y Combinator W18 Alumni demo day. Huge batch and probably one of the best ever

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3 years

Absolutely love Jimmy’s podcast demystifying the modern job market for everyone. It was great to be a guest. Give it a listen!

Jimmy McLoughlin 🐑🇺🇦

@jimmym

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⚡️⚡️The biggest deal ever on @dragonsden was by @HZoete + @hodsonwill 💵💵 Asking for £90k for 1% of their business 📺📺 They left with the best deal in the history of the show This is their story, what it feels like to be in the Den and what happened next 👇👇

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28 days

AI doesn’t know borders. If we’re to get the best out of this incredible technology then countries have to work together. That’s why I’m so grateful to Korea for co-hosting. This is the team with the legendary Hokwon from President Yoon’s office after it was all over.

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1 year

@LDHMarketing @racheljanetwolf But I’m afraid it’s not just ministers who churn. Civil servants tend to move every two years. I don’t blame them - that’s how they get ahead and get pay rises. But those incentives mean no institutional knowledge even in the civil service

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“The U.K. Safety Institute has released a toolset designed to “strengthen AI safety” by making it easier for industry, research organizations and academia to develop AI evaluations … the toolset is available under an open source license.”

UK agency releases tools to test AI model safety | TechCrunch

The U.K.'s AI Safety Institute has released an open source tool for evaluating the safety of AI and generative AI models.

techcrunch.com

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2 years

How do people feel about a fund that offers a decent cheque size - several hundred grand - and then says 10% of it is cash and 90% operational support?

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@HZoete

28 days

But to get the incredible upside of this technology we must ensure it’s safe. In the last year we have built: 1. The best technical team in any government doing evaluations of models including people leaving OpenAI & DeepMind to join us.

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Banter brothers

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1 year

Great to see Trumpet on product hunt!🎺trumpet: Build collaborative buyer journeys in 30 seconds by @sadlerrory h/t @kevinwdavid for hunting!

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5 years

So depressing. Teachers must not do this

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3 years

A friend and I constantly send each other screenshots of footballers’ careers from Wikipedia. So we decided to set this account up. Who is this legend???

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A glorious 90s baller on this great Friday. Guess the player! Answers in the comments. Follow for the daily journeyman quiz. - #everton #evertonfc #toffees #clubbrugges #be şiktaş #besiktas #coloradorapids #football #footballquiz #footballtrivia #soccer #nigeria #supereagles

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Important for people to understand what is going on in AI at the moment. As @matthewclifford says, tech companies are building “PROBABLY THE MOST POWERFUL TECHNOLOGY IN THE HISTORY OF OUR SPECIES … “TECHNOLOGY THAT WILL BE BETTER THAN HUMANS AT EVERYTHING HUMANS DO.”

BBC Politics

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"We are advancing the capabilities of these [AI] systems faster than... our ability to control them" Government tech adviser Matt Clifford says it is vital to invest in technology needed to "make AI safe" #BBCLauraK

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All the leaders of the companies building AI are on the record saying what they are building could lead to the end of humanity. This fact should be much more widely known. Governments across the world need to start taking this seriously and quickly.

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Curious: what are the strongest public expressions of concern about catastrophic or x-risk made by senior leaders of major AI labs? Both Sam Altman & Shane Legg have made unambiguous statements. I don't know of similar statements from Dario Amodei or Demis Hassabis

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Sixteen frontier AI companies from across the globe inc the US, China and the UAE signing the same commitments is a win. And maybe the start of the first truly global standards on AI.

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2 years

Best thing I’ve read on angel investing. Must read

Lenny Rachitsky

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I’ve now angel invested in 140+ companies. Here's what's most surprised me about angel investing so far 🧵

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So here's @elindezoete 's brass band playing in Hampstead Heath to a nice crowd. Loving the Grease medley. I'd say London is doing just fine.

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5 years

Seriously impressive that @pickmypostcode have now given away £1 million!!! Don’t pay for lotteries - sign up to these guys! Way more fun and free! 😀👍🤞👊

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Check out Hera on @ProductHunt : The remote-first calendar to protect and plan your time Awesome work @bruvgr @loubayss & @hera_hq team!

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3 years

All marketeers / founders out there need to use @trytriplewhale . What @AY_Orbach & @aryehMaxx have built will save you hours & hours and help you really understand all your digital channels. And this is just the start. Their vision is 🤯🔥💥🚀

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6 years

@simonnread How about a London based start up pioneering a new way to save money on energy bills and never be ripped off?

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3 years

Speed. That’s your number one advantage if you’re a small organisation whether start up, campaign or whatever. If you’re a large organisation optimise for fast decision making. ⚡️Speed kills⚡️

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Top thread from a man who knows his potatoes.

Jimmy McLoughlin 🐑🇺🇦

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Tomorrow, a lot of No.10 Special Advisers and campaign staff will lose their jobs. Even those on the winning side will not be guaranteed a job afterwards! I have spoken to 150 former SpAds over the years and this is what they can go onto do next 👇👇 /1

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“Dirty protest”

Elin de Zoete

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Shout out to @HZoete who managed to keep cool during live radio interview today while cat scratched door down, then after hurriedly letting her in to stop noise, she did a dirty protest right in front of him 😱. He kept going without a word...until off air, then many words!

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Lisa Nandy: "Set up your own power plant or take over existing ones". Labour have just announced free schools for energy

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7 years

So we ordered some hoodies for the team. They sent us someone else’s order. We’re keeping them

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1 year

Saddens me that boaty mcboatface was our best effort

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The Minnesota department of transportation ran a snowplow naming contest and the results are v good

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Nick Telson is a rockstar of the UK angel investing scene so I was very lucky to join him on his @pitchdeckpod podcast. We talked all things angel investing and what I look for in start ups when I invest. Check out

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@Maren_Bannon @BMagistretti @kirst @passioncapital @seedcamp 👋

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2 years

Having done focus groups in various forms for 15 years I love @SarahLongwell25 podcast The Focus Group Discussion that is grounded in what Americans actually think rather than hacks wanging on about what they think people think! We need a UK version

‎The Focus Group Podcast on Apple Podcasts

‎News · 2024

podcasts.apple.com

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Great fun chatting just now with @PetrieHosken on @BBCRadioLondon about energy price caps and @LAMB_GB ! Great curveball question at the end - am certain we did meet before Petrie! Hopefully there wasn’t too much gibberish nonsense coming out of my mouth this early in the morning!

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YC is a game changer. Apply. And then apply again and again

Y Combinator

@ycombinator

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At YC, we work with founders throughout the life of their startup and beyond, to build the world-changing companies of the future. And we'd love to work with you. The deadline to apply for YC Summer 2024 is Monday, April 22 at 8pm PDT — apply today at .

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Henry de Zoete

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I love this photo (no Brit can’t surely!) but it’s staged. Incredible propaganda. See hat tip @cathfeely

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

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Randomly stumbling on to threads like this is why I love Twitter

Ming Zhao

@FabiusMercurius

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Day in the Life of a Hedge Fund Analyst Few live to tell the tale. "Was it like Billions?" "Describe ur investment process?" "What did u learn?" I get these questions all the time, but for a while I was afraid of answering publicly. No more! Hedge fund story time. 👇 🧵/

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Agreed

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@nikitabier

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The one piece of advice I give to founders that is consistently against my own interests as their investor: If an opportunity to exit presents itself where you would make enough to own a home, take it—even if it’s earlier than the expectations you set. Life is a ladder: you

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@matthewclifford A long time ago now and I still share it with people

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

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Tune in to @LBC in about 10 or so mins to hear me talking surging energy prices with @iaindale . Is the price cap backfiring? Of course you never need to worry about rising prices if you are with @LAMB_GB 😉

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Ear to a lasagne just pulled out of the oven, my wife says: “it sounds cooked”. She’s right.

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@HZoete

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My nephew on Christmas Day in a mini @Tesla given to his grandad for customer loyalty. This is literally next generation marketing by @elonmusk

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@HZoete

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This week we hit 130,000 customers on @LAMB_GB ! Boom! And yes, that’s 130,000 people fully signed up giving us permission to switch on their behalf. We are saving people serious time and money! #autoswitchingisthefuture

Dragons' Den switching service reaches 130,000 customers - Utility Week

Automated switching service Look After My Bills, which featured on BBC’s Dragons' Den, has announced it has reached 130,000 customers.

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@impcapital Look After My Bills @LAMB_GB - optimises how much you pay for gas / heating / electricity without you having to do a thing. YC W18. UK based. 200,000+ members saved them over £31 million. Moving to cellphones, insurance, broadband

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If you want to hear me banging on about why we set up @LAMB_GB and what it was like to go on @BBCDragonsDen and get investment from the legendary Dragons @TejLalvani & @jennybcampbell then tune into @solihull_radio at 10.30am tomorrow #autoswitching

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7. The launch of the UK’s AI Safety Institute’s San Francisco office.

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Henry de Zoete

@HZoete

5 years

The depressing reality for not just car insurance but broadband, energy, mobiles, savings accounts etc. If you aren’t on top of all of it every single year then you get hit. No one has the time or energy. Look After My Bills @LAMB_GB does it for you

Ben Smaje

@Kennedy_Black

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Renewing car insurance is such a rip-off. Me: "Here are my details, what would it cost?" Them: "We can do that for £447 a year." Me: "But I've got a quote for £253 via a comparison site for the exact same cover FROM YOU." Them: "Oh, er yes, we can match that." Me: "You do that."

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@hkarthik Not just a growth issue. More a size issue. Whether growing or not a start up gets to a certain size and people act more in their own interests than the company’s. Empire building is a classic example

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@cumlasagna1 So many small businesses rely on Facebook ads to sell their products. Without FB they would go bust.

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