Charlie J

Mancunian developer in FinTech.

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

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https://t.co/bNOrEhVXIm

[Akash 🇬🇧/🇮🇳 @thewritingdev]

We’re building something.

On the 26th of September, we at @lfg_uk are running a Public Good Hackathon at Manchester’s People’s History Museum. No coding required, just AI tools and people willing to fix real problems.

Manchester’s tech scene is growing faster than almost anywhere else in Britain.

Real change comes from people who show up.

Join us on the 26th. Follow us to get involved.

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

Very happy to be involved in organising this with LFG. Alongside No10 North’s opening there’s never been a better time to be here. If you’re in tech in Manchester I encourage to come down on the 26th September and check it out!

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Economic growth from Manchester?

Hm. Sounds familiar to one of our upcoming events...

If you want to build something cool, join us on the 26th of September.

NO coding experience is necessary!

SIGN UP BELOW! ⬇️

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@jburnmurdoch A high score on relative deprivation was one of the main indicators of support for Corbyn back in the day if I remember rightly. Uni graduates who ended up with minimum wage job is case in point.

[Auguste Prompt @augusteprompt]

We let Deepmind get acquired by Google for $600m because we couldn't fund their work yet HS2 cost roughly the same as all Anthropic's funding.

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@tomhfh On driverless cars this is a fair point, Waymo etc will be purely extractive for local economies and be impossible to replace even with a British firm once it’s embedded. We’re uniquely exposed to the labour issue here as we have a disproportionately high number of taxi drivers.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

Britain is in an Energy Emergency.

But the Government is FAILING TO ACT. They have no plan, no idea what to do, and they’re leaving us exposed.

So today we’re launching The LFG Emergency Energy Bill to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN

Here’s how it would get bills down IMMEDIATELY:

1️⃣ SCRAP all levies on energy bills. These stealth taxes on the British people are unnecessarily hiking up their bills by hundreds of pounds.

2️⃣ REOPEN THE NORTH SEA, and directly deploy the tax revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN.

3️⃣ Stop new CfD contracts and launch an investigation into the system that signed them off. Last year, billpayers paid £1.5 billion for big renewable corporations to THROW ENERGY AWAY. By 2030, it’ll be £8 billion. The existing settlement is a national scandal.

4️⃣ Scrap Clean Power 2030 targets. These needless constraints have pushed civil servants to procure wind at any cost – and at huge expense to the British people.

5️⃣ DITCH the duties of energy regulators, NESO and Ofgem, towards Net Zero goals, so their only focus is to MINIMISE ENERGY COSTS, subject to security of supply.

6️⃣ Hold auctions for connecting to the grid, and directly deploy the revenue generated to GET BILLS DOWN

Our Emergency Energy Bill has cross-party support. It is ready to PASS IMMEDIATELY. It does what governments for the past 20 years didn’t – it takes RADICAL ACTION to SAVE OUR INDUSTRIES and GET BILLS DOWN.

There’s no excuse. Last week, the US suspended access to some of the world’s leading frontier AI models. Britain is vulnerable - and our energy prices are strangling our national security. We cannot afford to be at the mercy of other countries or events beyond our control any longer.

The Government needs to GET BILLS DOWN NOW or explain why they’re still letting this emergency destroy our future.

Force Westminster to ACT. Send our Bill to your local MP and sign our letter to the Prime Minister and Ed Miliband. GET BILLS DOWN, NOW!

[Al Carns @AlistairCarns]

The next war won't be won by armies, navies or air forces alone.

It'll be won by the country whose 19 year olds can code, whose factories can build drones in weeks not years, and whose grid stays on when someone tries to switch it off.

Industry. Society. Economy. That's the fight now.

We're not ready. And we're not being honest about what getting ready will cost.

[James Breckwoldt @jamesbreckwoldt]

🚨NEW POST BY ME🚨

Greater Manchester’s growth success is real, but didn't happened by accident. The country should be studying it closely.

Long-term strategy that is aggressively pro-growth, pro-development & pro-FDI works if given time and consistency

https://t.co/aVG1iwe8lQ

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@isnit0 I think you’ve just described the eventual conservative manifesto after they’re done soul searching

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@MWatson91 @iSlimfit 50k today is worth 37k in 2020, truth is barely anyone (including people at 50k) is a ‘high earner’ in the UK

[Carl Benedikt Frey @carlbfrey]

Stockholm is outperforming NYC and London in terms of unicorns per capita (though not SF). Why?

A key reason was a 2003 reform letting founders defer capital-gains tax by reinvesting exit proceeds into other private firms, encouraging rapid “recycling” into new startups

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@lfg_uk Yeah but have you seen the switch between light and dark mode…

[Rohin Dhar @rohindhar]

Interesting Hacker News comment that Waymo fares basically pull the money out of the local city

And send it to the San Francisco bay area

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

The UK is a great country with an extraordinary history. Our stagnation is real, but it's fixable and worth fixing.

Enjoyed giving this talk at @lfg_uk last week and so encouraged by the optimistic responses I've had from people who are building a brilliant future for Britain 🚀

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

Very proud to be working with @bubble’s immerse programme as a product mentor. Some amazing startups in this cohort solving big problems!

[Bubble @bubble]

Powerhouse founders and powerhouse mentors. It's the Bubble way. 😉💙

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@fede_bubble @bubble Very smooth, the docs on setting up the apple dev account are super helpful too 👌

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

Every year, British universities handle thousands of academic consultancy requests, from small consults worth a few hundred pounds to multi-million pound projects.

Each one passes through multiple stages and departments, regardless of its size. Proposals, approvals, contracting, finance, almost all is still tracked manually in spreadsheets, email chains, and the to-do lists of a few overworked staff, adding months of delay and uncertainty to both academics and businesses.

I'm very pleased we're working on this problem at @getexpertee. First with a web app, and now on mobile too.

#BusinessEngagement #KEF #TechTransfer #BubbleMobileChallenge

[Expertee @getexpertee]

UK universities regularly handle thousands of small consultancy requests, but slow, manual processes burn staff time, and often make this consultancy more hassle than it's worth.

Academic consultancy shouldn't be this hard. That's why we're building expertee. #KnowledgeExchange

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

After many requests from our pilot group, we've this week launched the @getexpertee app, made possible by @bubble.

Very proud of our small team, helping academics and universities supercharge their consultancy, and now on the go. #bubblemobilechallenge #nocode #HigherEducation

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

We're extremely happy to launch the @getexpertee mobile app for academics. Expertee partners with universities across the UK to power high volume academic consultancy, and now academics can manage contracts and conversations on the go! #BubbleMobileChallenge

[Charlie J @CharlieJPoland]

@HarryMoy @Discoplomacy Same here 😂