Junaid Eyecon

CEO of @blacklionapp /

[Junaid Eyecon @JunaidEyecon]

🚀 Unveiling the future of music asset management! Dive into our latest video to see how Black Lion's Valuation Engine is transforming the music industry. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to precision! 👋#MusicTech #Innovation #AI https://t.co/Egh43k8HJ3

[Junaid Eyecon @JunaidEyecon]

@alanchanguk Tech entrepreneurship in Britain is already dead lol we lose all our unicorns to foreign investment entities and territories! But agree we should all be against an exit tax 🙏🏽

[Alan Smith @AlanJLSmith]

UK Innovation Is Bleeding To Death:

The House of Lords Science & Tech Committee just dropped a brutal 2025 report:

“We’re world-class at inventing… and world-class at losing it.”

- DeepMind? London-born. Google’s now.

- Arm? Cambridge chip genius. SoftBank owned.

- Graphcore? Bristol AI unicorn. Folded into SoftBank – 500+ UK jobs gone.

- Skyscanner? Edinburgh unicorn. £1.4B to Chinese Ctrip - control vanished.

- Hopin? £4B peak in London. Liquidated UK ops in 2024 to chase US scale.

This isn’t bad luck. It’s a system failure.

THE DOOM LOOP

1. UK invents

2. No capital

3. Forced to sell/move abroad

4. No jobs, tax, growth

5. Even less capital

Productivity is flat since 2008. Real wages stagnant. We’re trapped.

5 KILLER FINDINGS

- Pensions ghosted tech - UK funds invest <1% in growth ventures (US: ~8%). They’d rather buy US bonds than back British AI.

- Gov is siloed & slow - Innovate UK, BBB, NWF all separate. UAE deploys billions in a call. We play checkers while they play chess.

- We block talent - £1,500+ visa fees + 8-week waits. Top engineers go to Berlin/SF.

DeepMind thrived on immigrants - then Google poached the ecosystem.

- Regulators fear risk - Over-regulate at lab scale, wonder why no one scales.

RADICAL FIXES – ACT NOW

1. Pension Power-Up

Mandate 5% of UK pensions to growth equity by 2030 → £100BN+ patient capital.

2. British Scale-Up Command:
Merge Innovate UK + BBB + NWF into one agile agency:

• £10BN fund
• 90-day decisions
• Co-invest mandates

3. Golden Visa for Founders
• £0 fees
• 24-month scale-up visa
• Settlement at £10M revenue
Attract 1,000 global founders/year.

4. “Fail Fast” Regulation

24-month sandbox for all new tech. Regulators in startups. Fast-track winners. Learn from failures.

5. Celebrate Builders

• National Scale-Up Day
• Tax breaks on employee shares
• Founder in Residence @ No. 10

Culture eats strategy. Make building cool again.

We’re at a tipping point.

Lose another decade = more DeepMinds lost forever.

Act now = next unicorns stay British.

Read the full report: https://t.co/YZzqmVhM6k

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[Junaid Eyecon @JunaidEyecon]

@Ian_Schwartzman also adding to this: try to negotiate a 100% recoupment rate not a recoupment rate which relies on the broken old model of what your ownership split is. This way you recoup faster &gt;&gt;&gt;

[Junaid Eyecon @JunaidEyecon]

@StevenCravotta big facts!

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Music is the blind &amp; ignorant, leading the blind &amp; ignorant. Education is accessible, please do not listen to a gimmick celebrity rant about best practises, do your own independent research &gt;&gt;&gt;

[Junaid Eyecon @JunaidEyecon]

@Kick_Champ he said a whole lot of NOTHING lololol, you get signed. Sign away your rights, then sell your publishing and get smart with Money mgmt. If you was an astute biz person you would know ownership is the only leverage you have and not just of Publishing, Masters too!

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@rumilyrics progress!

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@stoppfeenin agreed, definitely the runts of the litter too

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@eurofounder lol this has to be a rage bait post, most founders across Europe are bred for M&amp;A exits not even IPO's...

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@janaksunil The intern needs a raise!

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@acfreedmanlaw Right! The bridge never existed…

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@queens_parents @wolfejosh 😂 made no difference as he WON 🙏🏾

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@bxtsubsea LOL me realising i have to block 40% of investors who reach out...

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@stoppfeenin it's too old to be acting so childish. You're as young as you feel but act like you got sense when you pass 30 please!

[Junaid Eyecon @JunaidEyecon]

I am so tired of AI spamming my e-mails with "lead generation" pitches...

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@stoppfeenin @price0fwoke lmao, whats wrong with some salt and pepper b***h.

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Everyone i know is becoming a Scout for a16z, love what they doing w/ SpeedRun and deploying capital quickly.

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@ladidaix @ArtOfDialogue_ nowhere! Facts sis.

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@YSLONIKA Rihanna!

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@ThePopTingz can you imagine seeing Bey @ Harrods?