Gareth Jefferies

ex-@rtpvc ex-@northzonevc Below average startup takes, above average dog pics

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In this episode, @gg_jefferies joins @TheJWPringle and @hectorfbmason to discuss the skills to hone as a VC, common profiles of companies that became unicorns, & so much more.

Listen from 7am Wed, 19th June

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@fintecture's story so far is incredible: major large enterprise adoption, 100% RFP win rate, a payments product driving top line growth for b2b merchants not just time/cost savings, and $100 trillion opportunity ahead — v excited to be an investor here! https://t.co/aGySd74225

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@paulbz …+ (4) regulations around comms = generally more burdensome to run a public co in EU + (5) regulations around board member compensation and board member obligations = harder to get high quality public BOD members in EU vs US. Mainly liquidity though!

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@paulbz …also (3) euro mkt with more liquidity obligations (pension funds etc) cares more about dividends vs US comprised of asset mgrs, HFs, endowments etc values LT compounding = less reward for re-investing in business (which most VC backed tech founder-CEOs want to do) in EU v US…

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@paulbz Isn't the Conservative Party incentivised to select a candidate that is attractive to the median voter (or at least, the most attractive candidate of those on offer), because doing so minimises the risk that they lose power at the next election?

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@thogge @kscottz @Divvy_HQ ..*asks about reason #2044*…

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@danpantelo Why

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@businessbarista DM'd you 🙌

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@lolawajs @shak @axeliaklein @eileentso @rsohoni @HarryStebbings @JuneAngelides @sarahdrinkwater @Alicebentinck @deeeepka @Kieranleehill @GeorgiaS_IV @Natashalytton Welcome dinner for Bea, à la your welcome dinner in New York in 2019??

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@galeforceVC @alex___banks The opportunity cost of time and effort is so high early on that often ‘not needed’ = ‘actually harmful’. Could be directly harmful too though e.g. some potential investors / hires may view a founder spending so much time on something so unimpactful as a pretty negative signal.

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@morganhousel @packyM Morgan I would love to know who are some of the other ±4 if you'd be open to sharing please?

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@venturetwins Seven years ago, out of consultancy and into VC! Turns out, super similar to your template. Reads laughably formal to me now, but worked at the time :-)

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@benedictevans @lillianmli 👀

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@paulbz Everyone's doing the double air kiss thing Paul you definitely should too

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@mariogabriele I wonder what a revenue per word analysis of literature would look like - and what would be the most ‘efficient’ (by this one measure) work of literature written and if there’s a correlation with genre, fiction/nonfic etc