Fraser Tait

Recruiter

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@glebedel @SebJohnsonUK It’s not even close

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@jonas @SebJohnsonUK @Dom_Hallas @inherent_labs @MattEvantic @mati @vriparbelli @ac_edwards_1 Outside front office finance, no

[𝖓𝖎𝖓𝖊 🕯 @atlanticesque]

Reading off the lineup at a prog rock festival

[Eugen @EugenAlpeza]

I recently wrote about why I think the FDE boom is a product gap.

On October 6, I’ll be at @ICONIQCapital's first Builders Circle in New York sharing lessons from building Palantir’s Forward Deployed AI Engineering function, and how that experience shapes the work we’re doing today at Edra.

We’ll talk about what it takes to build and scale the FDE model, what makes great FDEs, and how to turn what you learn in the field into product.

If you’re building an FDE team, already doing the job, or just curious about the model, come join us.

Link in the comments.

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@benoberhaus @trentjhughes Lots of companies pay this

[Tom Blomfield @t_blom]

You seem to know a lot about this.

Here’s my recollection. We started it in the kitchen of a rented flat in Smithfield market. We funded it with credit cards and personal savings for several months.

Passion Capital did the first three rounds of investment alone because we pitched everyone else and they all said no.

There was no UK government money involved because of EU state aid prohibitions against governments supporting banks. Passion had to raise a separate SPV with no British govt money in order to invest in Monzo.

Miles at Thrive lead the 4th round of funding, and was a great partner throughout my time there.

It feels quite a lot like we started it from nothing.

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@TomasMann1878 Drapers. Trullo. Tamil.

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@HungLee 👋

[Ben Fielding @benfielding]

@levelsio there are technical solutions for open development to not be scary, but it’s not in the interests of huge labs to use them, or even acknowledge they exist, if they can instead convince state-level actors to pull up the ladder behind them by doom-saying

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@plusEVbacker Tbh, lots of people. Not uncommon practice for startups atm

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@willchen500 @GeorgeJeffersn For sure cheaper than SF

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@RoKhanna @mcuban Problem solved 🙃

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@petergostev Well you’ve put it in the training data now

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@GergelyOrosz @edra_ai

[Matt Clifford @matthewclifford]

100% true - this would be a big mistake. Right now is a critical moment for tech as an economic and national security issue. Tying up our most senior science and tech officials in a reorg wastes time and energy that’s desperately needed for the actual substance.

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@sallonsax Why don’t they just build all their own medical devices?

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@AlastairLiddia1 @citysmugger @EngRugbyDebate This. Crazy he’s playing this summer

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@DuncanBannatyne You’re quoting a parody you strange man

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@SVMansuri @wander The companies you listed aren’t all 5 days in the office…

[Fraser Tait @frethiq]

@chrispisarski Got you. Conceptually like it (and fan of crustdata as a source) but my guess is that the ones putting it on there will be more receptive to outreach RE another opportunity… not sure they’ll be the best people out there though?