There's no good time to eat Beef Stroganoff

A podcast interview about Europe's Catch 22 problem and other things

An old colleague from Microsoft recently invited me to appear on The Startup Sensations Podcast, where we discussed a wide range of topics:

• From my vantage point as an angel investor and advisor, how I see the next decade’s technological shift being shaped and defined by a vastly different set of parameters and variables to those of the SaaS/Cloud era of 2005-2015.

• Defining Europe’s Catch-22 problem: why many European B2B tech founders decide to cash out before completing the scale-up stage because of the shortage of local talent and know-how required to navigate and grow beyond the start-up stage into a mature or multi-region business.

• How a new community, Boardwave, led by Phill Robinson, is attempting to tackle this problem.

• It’s disheartening that the quantum of UK and European government investment in solving this is a drop in the ocean compared with the annual R&D spend of just one US tech giant, never mind all of them.

• What failing to solve this could mean for Europe if a small group of US-based companies succeeds in effectively monopolising the Gen-AI era.

• My decision to hang up my operator boots at Xero and what I’m up to now (not eating Beef Stroganoff)

I hope you enjoy it.

GT
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