Jamie Harris

Investing in UK Tech & the Future of the UK 🇬🇧. VC @ Octopus Ventures. Thatcher Fellow @ Centre For Policy Studies. Mentor @ Techstars

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

This is the energy we need 🇬🇧

[delian @zebulgar]

GOOD MORNING

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

In order to achieve anything of meaning in this world, we need to be able to deploy sustained, focused attention.

For those who want to begin the fight back for theirs - this is an excellent and very accessible read.

https://t.co/gG3CN3yliU

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

To think I nearly forgot about the Softbank Annual Shareholder’s Presentation…

This year’s pearl of wisdom?

‘true value is the power to keep laying eggs’

https://t.co/dnQ6eqIi9M

[Andrew Bennett @andrewjb_]

Today we launch @ukdynamism, a new philanthropic fund to back the believers and builders in UK dynamism

I am delighted to be leading the fund, which is anchor funded by @xtxmarkets and is being incubated by @RenPhilanthropy

https://t.co/I9RTNYdaOy

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Interested to see how this plays out longer term.

Could be a very good mechanism for remuneration in an age of agents/agentic workflows

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

We're opening the waitlist for our Monetization Gateway, which will allow you to charge for any web page, dataset, API, or MCP tool behind Cloudflare. The charges will settle in stablecoins over the x402 open protocol. https://t.co/pvICtEIixj

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

This plus the news from Meta that they’ll be selling excess compute…

Certainly one way of shortening the j-curve on these compute investments…

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Nvidia officially launches program to let AI startups swap compute for revenue share

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

UK policy makers and MPs need only read two paragraphs this weekend so as to know what to focus on for the next 20+ years.

Fortunately for them @tejparikh90 put them at the top of his article this weekend for the @FT

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@AFitzgerald1992 It’s a beautiful space. The tomb designed so that you are either bowing your head in respect to him or looking up to him.

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10 days of my gardening leave will be spend hiking across England, West to East.

First a quick stop before I reach the start line.

Introducing Cartmel, the ancestral seat of the sticky toffee pudding.

[Farhaj Mayan @farhaj]

We’re going all in on the UK 🇬🇧

It’s an underestimated jurisdiction and the Kings Cross AI boom is just an indicator of where the country is headed.

It’s the world’s best timezone, they have a great immigration program for world class talent (GTV) & we like the tea. Bullish.

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

@maxwell_marlow But were they equally impressed by your small town business owner reference? A certain Samuel Walton, I believe?

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@AFitzgerald1992 @The_Pig_Hotel Stunning. Will be doing the Wainwright Way next week. We’ll have to exchange notes

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@SebJohnsonUK @deel My kind of jujitsu - nice work Seb

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@rcolvile Perhaps there is hope yet for your holdings in quantum Rob!

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

I couldn’t think of a better first show impact for the SNL UK team

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Donald Trump has just spoken to Keir Starmer on the phone after posting the Saturday Night Live UK skit showing Starmer scared of him

No 10 said: "The leaders discussed the current situation in the Middle East, and in particular, the need to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to resume global shipping. They agreed that reopening the Strait of Hormuz was essential to ensure stability in the global energy market. They agreed to speak again soon"

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SNL UK deserves to succeed!

We have a rich heritage in sketch comedy and there’s no reason this format can’t be a cauldron for creating the UK’s next great comics.

Reps will only help and I for one am looking forward to the next 7 episodes this season.

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

A lesson *almost* every CEO knows about strategy - the essence of it is choosing what not to do.

In a country with higher investment & defence spending aspirations we need to be able to clearly state the trade-offs we are willing to make.

[Jamie Harris @jwhharris]

NPS-ish survey I received from Singapore gov asking about my time there, views of the country and whether I’d consider returning.

Great to see them invested in this & interesting to see climate change on there - SG is heating up almost twice the avg rate of other countries

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One of the largest risks society face is radically reducing the price of work before radically reducing the cost to live/operate.

More application of AI to the potential solution of this should be welcomed.

*Bonus points for using rugby pitches as a unit of measurement

[UK Atomic Energy Authority @UKAEAofficial]

The UK government is investing £45 million for a 1.4MW mission-focused supercomputer named ‘Sunrise’, a key first step in establishing the country’s first AI Growth Zone at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Campus in Oxfordshire. ➡️https://t.co/Cv7ogLJYYO

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@maxwell_marlow @Jonathan_Hinder Say it louder for those at the back @maxwell_marlow !

[Seb Johnson @SebJohnsonUK]

London has overtaken SF and NYC as the world’s leading Fintech hub.

A new report by Finch Capital has analysed the level of investment into Fintech over the past four years and London comes out on top:

🥇London with €30bn invested
🥈SF with €20bn
🥉NYC with €18bn

The UK has always been home to great Fintechs but the recent AI craze has meant the sector as a whole has seen reduced investment.

It’s easy to get distracted with all the great AI rounds and forget how dominant UK Fintech is.

LETS GO