👨‍💻 Tech entrepreneur helping other founders succeed 💡 Founder @StartbookApp

London, UK
Joined March 2013
Maxx Turing retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three year doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are releasing their inhibitions and feeling the rain on their skin. No one else can feel it for them, only they can le
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Excited to announce that @BritishProgress is now officially a registered charity! We're expanding operations in order to support our growth as we continue to advance education on issues of public policy. Do you know someone organised and impact-driven? Help us spread the word! 🙏
🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 Join us as an Operations Associate and help keep the engine running at @BritishProgress. This is a great role for an ambitious junior person looking to join a small and dynamic team.
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💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles…
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Maxx Turing retweeted
Watching VCs add value to startups after they invest.
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software engineers adding JavaScript to everything
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Maxx Turing retweeted
Google Calendar, but it shows the cost of the meeting
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Maxx Turing retweeted
pour one out for the solo founders 🥃
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Does anyone know if a calendar feed for the UK transport strikes/disruptions exists? 👀 ...feeling like it's challenging to diarise travel without regular checking of news articles these days...
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Great opportunity to rethink monkey 🧠💸 with @kiranthadhani ✨
Redefine your relationship with #moneyworkshop 🫰💷 Calling those who want to deep dive on money mindset, budgeting, spending, savings, investments & more 📅17.8.22 10:30-12:30 With entrepreneur disruptor Kiran Thadnani Register your free place 👉 bit.ly/Wks_reg
We are thrilled to announce that our NEF+ alumni, Claudine Adeyemi (@CareerEar) and Julian Boaitey (Yendy), have been selected to receive £20,000 in grant funding at this year's @CVC_Capital UK Young Innovator Awards.
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Thank you to Kiran Thadhani & @MaxxTuring for their content fuelled money workshop @TownSqIslington yesterday! Met friendly NEW local entrepreneur ✅ Tested NEW TV screen ✅ Checkout info on future events lnkd.in/e_FW53A2 #thankyou #money #events
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Our affordable workspace operator, @TownSqIslington hosts a FREE business workshop on 25 May, 10:30am-12:30pm Join @MaxxTuring and @kiranthadhani to learn about funding to help launch and grow your business Get involved: orlo.uk/xcTFp #Islington #MoreEqualFutures
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Yup, I don’t believe in work-life balance - Everything worth pursuing disbalances your life. Think startup, falling in love, having a baby. There is no perfect “balance”.
Unpopular startup opinion: "balance" is just not a thing if you're in the pursuit of hard problems. You just can't solve a tough challenge by working on it 9-5. You have to obsess over it every waking hour to have a chance of success. The sooner we accept this truth, the better
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Maxx Turing retweeted
Unpopular opinion: I like using Google Docs more than Notion
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When you look up ✨ HUSTLE ✨ in the dictionary it should say Yang Liu (@LiuYang57). Yang has just successfully raised £2.6m for her startup @JustWearsHQ after years of entrepreneurial grafting...⁣ ⁣ I got to interview her on Thursday - here are some highlights from her story:
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👉 2021 - EXPANSION! Following the recent raise Yang's now hiring - do you know a good candidate for a 'Head of People' role? Get in touch with her! ✉️⁣
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⁣ This interview series is part of the @NEF_plus Programme by the @CfEntrepreneurs (check out apply.nef.plus if you're interested). Big thanks to @Founders_Forum for providing the venue!⁣ ⁣ #hustle #entrepreneur #founder #NEFPlus
👉 2018 - raised a pre-seed round, got kicked out of the country (visa issues) and hustled her way back in (Exceptional Talent Visa) 🎟️⁣
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👉 2019 - went on Dragon's Den 🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲 and received offers, but opted for a better deal with additional funding outside of the den