Luke Knight

Host @etnshow Skiing from 3, Snowboarding from 16

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

In 2.5 months we interviewed these guys @etnshow.

Below this list are the top six dream guests for '26.

1/ Manny Medina, Co-Founder & CEO turned board member at Outreach/Founder Paid
2/ Andreas Klinger, Co-Initiator of EU-INC & Founder of Prototype Capital
3/ Elias & Mo, Founders of Epiminds (coming out of stealth)
4/ Victor Riparbelli, Founder of Synthesia
5/ Paul Murphy, Partner at Lightspeed
6/ Matthew Wilson, Co-Founder & CEO of Jack and Jill
7/ Dom Hallas, Executive Director of Startup Coalition
8/ James Wise, Partner at Balderton Capital
9/ Jamesin Seidel, General Partner at Chapter One
10/ Zoe Qin, Vice President at Dawn Capital
11/ Christian Owens, Founder and CEO at Clove
12/ Andreas Helbig, Partner at Atomico
13/ Sabba Keynejad, CEO & Co-founder at VEED[dot]IO
14/ Bela Wiertz, Founder at {Tech: Europe}
15/ Wing Yung Chan, CEO at Sourceful
16/ David Gelberg, Fastest Exited Founder in Europe
17/ Amal Jolly, CEO / Founder Saturn
18/ Paddy Ryan Cofounder at Odin
19/ Jack Wang, Partner @ Project A
20/ Dan Gray, Writer & Researcher on Private Markets
21/ Daniel Dippold⁠, CEO and Co-Founder of EWOR
22/ Charles Guillemet,CTO Ledger
23/ Xavier Collins, CEO and Co-Founder of Wonder Studios
24/ Ethan Barajas, CEO and Jamie Palmer, CTO and Co-founders of Icarus Robotics
25/ David Phelps, Co-founder of Jokerace
26/ Josef Chen, CEO & Founder of KAIKAKU
27/ Max Junestrand, CEO & Founder of Legora
28/ Henrik Hansson & Ludvig Swanstrom, Co-Founders of Vessence
29/ Ioan Iacob, Founder & CEO of FlowX[dot]AI
30/ Thomas Bacon, Founder of Lowlu
31/ Dimi Nikolaou, Founder of Wondercraft
32/ Max Buchan, Founder & CEO of Valarian
33/ Alex Recouso, Co-Founder & CEO CitizenX
34/ Oliver Kicks, General Partner at Concept Ventures
35/ Edward Woodford CEO & Co-Founder of zerohash
36/ Dimitrios Kottas, Founder & CEO of Delian Alliance Industries
37/ Nadir Izrael, Co-founder & CTO at Armis Security
38/ George Robson, Partner at Sequoia Capital
39/ Lars Rasmussen, Co-Founder of Google Maps & Panathēnea
40/ Marcus Behrendt, Managing Director of BMW i Ventures
41/ Ricardo Sequerra Amram - Partner at Point Nine
42/ Nicolas Sharp - Co-Founder and CEO of Attio
43/ Andreas Schwarzenbrunner, General Partner Speed Invest
44/ Marco Squarci Founder and CEO of Specter
45/ Tobias Bengtsdahl, Partner at Antler
46/ Fred Oliveira VP of Engineering at Capital Factory
47/ Matt Clifford, Co-founder Entrepreneurs + First Chair ARIA Research
48/ Andre de Haes Founder of Backed VC
49/ Des Traynor Co-Founder of Intercom
50/ Lukas Ziegler Founder of Botnanza + FF venture partner
51/ Maxime Germain, Founder at Beside
52/ Sauraj Gambhir, Co-Founder at Prior Labs
53/ Javier Palafox Co-Founder at Happy Robot
54/ Laura Modiano, Startups at OpenAI
55/ Romain Huet, Head of Developer Experience at OpenAI
56/ Gabriel Hubert, Co-founder and CEO, Dust
57/ Nicolas Kopp, CEO & Founder Rillet
58/ Rubén Domínguez Ibar Founder fo The VC Corner & Scout a16z
59/ Guillermo Flor Angel Investor | Founder Product Market Fit
60/ Alberto Tenconi Chief of Staff at Sequel
61/ Jeannette zu Fürstenberg Managing Director and Head of Europe at General Catalyst / Founding Partner of La Famiglia VC
62/ Robin Renz CEO & Co-Founder at Hyperdrives
63/ Kevin Costa Founder of Belief Capital
64/ Tom Hubregtsen, Founder & CEO at Voltrac + Co-Founder of Extropic
65/ Zeynep Yavuz, Partner at General Catalyst
66/ Ville Vesterinen, Founder at Slush
67/ Lucy Yueting Liu, Co-founder at Airwallex
68/ Stephen Whitworth, Founder of Incident[dot]io
69/ Dr Max Werner, Founder of Hades Mining
70/ Tom Wehmeier, Partner & Head of Intelligence at Atomico
71/ Bar Winkler, Co-Founder & CEO, Wonderful
72/ Siddhant Jayakumar Founder, CEO @ Finster AI + AI Researcher at Google DeepMind
73/ Stephan-Daniel Gravert, Co-Founder & CPO at Mimic Robotics
74/ Tim Levene, CEO at Augmentum Fintech
75/ Florian Heinemann, Founding Partner at Project A
76/ Christian Meermann Founding Partner @ Cherry Ventures
77/ Roman Engeler Co-Founder @ Atla (YC S23)
78/ Lukas Ziegler Robotics evangelist @ Planet Earth
79/ Varun Anand Co-Founder at Clay
80/ Mark Swan CEO & Co-Founder at Nevis
81/ Christian Miele General Partner at Headline & Co-Founder of La Famiglia
82/ Paulo Guichard Co-Founder & CEO at Condukt
83/ Marius Meiners Founder at Peec AI
84/ Julien Bek Partner at Sequoia Capital
85/ Jacob Houlberg Co-founder at Evertrace
86/ Alexander Schmitt Partner at Lightspeed
87/ Jonah Lowenstein Co-Founder & CEO at Aurora
88/ Annanay Kapila CEO at QFEX
89/ Luke Harries Growth / Engineering at ElevenLabs
90/ Kaushik Subramanian Partner at EQT Ventures
91/ Ioana Hreninciuc Co-Founder at Runware
92/ Pedro Gomes Founder & Director at WalletConnect Foundation
93/ Jack Cully Marketing at Granola
94/ Paul Bonnet General Partner at 20VC
95/ Ken Donald, Co-Managing Director at OPUS
96/ Claudine Adeyemi-Adams, Founder & CEO at Earlybird
97/ Ndaedzo Madume, Founder & CEO at GraceNineteen
98/ Urav Shah, Founder at Exa Labs
99/ Samantha Rosenberg, Co-Founder at be-long
100/ Anuscha Iqbal, CEO & Co-Founder at Qanooni
101/ Tamar Gomez, Co-Founder at Ankor AI
102/ ⁠⁠Carl-Johann Simon-Gabriel, CEO of Mirelo
103/ Dr.Lewis Liu, Oxford PhD in Atomic and Laser Physics, Stealth Founder + Mentor at Neo
104/ Christian Hernandez Gallardo Co-founder + Partner at 2150
105/ Alexandre Berriche, Founder and Executive Chairman at Fleet
106/ Ping Wu, CEO at Cresta + Co-founder at Google CCAI and Vertex AI
107/ Michiel Riegel, CEO of EMEA at Navan
108/ Sam Bowman Head of Publishing at Stripe & Founder at Works in Progress magazine

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Dream 5 guests (not in order):

1/ @matiii Co-founder @elevenlabs
2/ @awxjack Founder & CEO @airwallex
3/ @eldsjal CEO and Founder @Spotify, @PrimaMateria_ and @neko
4/ @levelsio
5/ @antonosika Founder @Lovable
6/ @getpeid CEO @nothing

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

we’re building the TBPN for Europe. introducing @eutncom

[Philip Johnston @PhilipJohnston]

A good fundraising process isn’t about getting people to say ‘Yes’, it’s about getting them to say ‘No’. 😯

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

ElevenLabs but double it

[etn. @etnshow]

NEW: ElevenLabs is in early talks for a secondary sale valuing it at roughly $22B, per Bloomberg.

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

Petition for the creator of Le Chaton Fat to make an appearance on the show

[etn. @etnshow]

oh lawd he comin

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

The aura of this man is simple unmatched. Godspeed @DjokerNole

[Novak Djokovic @DjokerNole]

When the stars are out from Hollywood and Holywood, a strong performance is mandatory 🤩

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

I like this photo

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

Djok Domination

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

No hassle for Novak!

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

Table of Giants

[Lauris @lzminsky]

Proof of Hungry

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Self recommending.

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@nathanbenaich Or at least walking onto centre

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@lzminsky @etnshow Great to meet sir

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

No1 reason to start a company because even by taking the ‘safe’ route the odds are against you anyway.

You might as well choose a game you think you can win and then bet big.

If you win, you probably win far bigger than the safe path.

Get in the arena and play the right game for you.

[Xen @XenBH]

You're 21. You just graduated top of your class from an elite university, ten years of grinding at school behind you. Top 0.1%. Now you need a job.

You're ambitious but not reckless. You'd like what your boomer parents had by the end of their twenties: a decent family home, in a part of town with schools you'd want to send your kids to, room to start a family. Modest, by the standards they bought it at.

Here's the economics. In London, where the best jobs are, that house is north of two million. That's a 500k deposit, before you've paid a penny of school fees or thought about actually living.

So how does a 28-year-old get to half a million in liquid savings? Post tax. Realistically, very few doors: investment banking, trading, a magic circle law firm, maybe private equity. And even then you need to get though brutal admissions, be a top performer every year, be a bit lucky, and do 80 to 100 hour weeks for years, in a job that isn't really fulfilling.

The alternative is to do something the world needs more of, engineer, architect, doctor, teacher, and accept the family home is off the table, probably for good.

So unless you've got other means of support, that's the apparent trade-off. I was there myself, and chose to grind it out for eight years so I could buy my first home. At the time I felt I didn't have a choice. In hindsight I should have gone straight into building something of my own.

People worry about AI creating a permanent underclass. Look at the options a top graduate has today and we're sort of already there.

The system's broken, and people want something better.

[Financial Times @FT]

How the DeepMind mafia brought the AI boom to London https://t.co/ziOYpXD1cO

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

Incredible On Running placement

out of interest @awxjack are they paying you?

[Forbes @Forbes]

How This New Fintech Billionaire Is Cashing In On Cross-Border Payments https://t.co/ZO1yGwva5b (Photo: Airwallex)

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@isnit0 pimlicoooo

[Rohan @dvvdle]

Do something great

Talk about it

Capitalize on the attention

Do it again

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@pallipau @etnshow congrats :))))

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@PimDeWitte @etnshow congrats!

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@etnshow woof big round

[etn. @etnshow]

Christos @chrstoCC, GM UK & Europe at @airwallex, says the company is adding 1,000 customers a month as its European business grows more than 100% year-on-year:

"We're adding like a thousand new customers a month."

"Our business in Europe is over 100% year-on-year."

"We've committed to further expand that with a billion dollar investment in the region."

"We've been filling that at like 10 new hires a week."

"We just see such a good talent pool here."

[Luke Knight @lukeknight]

@etnshow big stuff congrats @awxjack