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Leo Ringer retweeted
Great interview with Sir Patrick Vallance in the @formventureshq newsletter today.
‘For regulators, the incentive to take risk is virtually zero. We need strong political leadership and to give regulators a clear mandate for innovation’
Worth a read:
formventures.substack.com/p/…
Leo Ringer retweeted
For many startups, regulation has become the biggest barrier to growth. Over-stretched & underfunded, regulators have been struggling to keep up amid rapid technological change.
✍️ @leoringer & @andrewjb_ of @formventureshq set out the case for reform ➡️
futuregovernanceforum.co.uk/…
Leo Ringer retweeted
let's talk about ~regulatory capture in AI~
wrote something with @patrick_newton1 that might annoy everyone (sorry not sorry)
quick thread
Leo Ringer retweeted
New post.
I tried to summarize my POV on Europe.
More importantly, i share share two small suggestions that, as a first step, could bring us back on track.
🇪🇺 eu/acc
klinger.io/posts/eu-acc
Leo Ringer retweeted
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Leo Ringer retweeted
“Until the UK fixes, funds and speeds up its approval processes, its dreams of turning frontier tech sectors into thriving industries may be frustrated”
Great @pmdfoster @SpeedMaddie Big Read in today’s @FT on the creaking state of the UK’s regulators, and the impact on UK’s best companies:
Leo Ringer retweeted
Thanks to @pmdfoster and @SpeedMaddie for speaking with @leoringer and @andrewjb_ about the UK’s regulators — and how to fix and fund them to support UK startups:
“Until the UK fixes, funds and speeds up its approval processes, its dreams of turning frontier tech sectors into thriving industries may be frustrated”
Great @pmdfoster @SpeedMaddie Big Read in today’s @FT on the creaking state of the UK’s regulators, and the impact on UK’s best companies:
Leo Ringer retweeted
Well done to @formventureshq @leoringer @andrewjb_ and team for a great event this morning on the importance of regulation/regulators for startups. Checkout their great report here: formventures.notion.site/Fix…
Leo Ringer retweeted
Thanks to everyone that came down to our FORM Summit this morning!
When you ask a VC or founder about regulation and government, “f*ck the regulators” isn’t an uncommon response. If you go by Marc Andreessen’s latest screed, regulation is the enemy of tech, and vice versa.
But the real tech optimist view — and our view at @formventureshq — is that instead of wishing regulation wasn’t there while doing nothing about it, we can accept the reality of it while also being impatient about improving it.
So this morning we launched our new report, fixtheregulators.com, to help startups move quickly in regulated markets and turn regulators into a source of advantage for the UK. Thanks to @DBTInvestment, Finn at flok.health, @edsteele_, @gates_sj & @twehmeier @atomico for hosting us.
Check out our report & get in touch with thoughts! fixtheregulators.com
Our take on how policy shaped tech in 2023 and what comes next - and a recap of a very busy year for the @formventureshq team!
formventures.substack.com/p/…
"We need to give bags of money to centralised institutions to realise the dream of not having centralised institutions"
🚨Holy shit, a group of tech and crypto investors have put $78 MILLION into a series of super
PACs over the last three months.
Group will support pro-crypto candidates. List of backers —>
prnewswire.com/news-releases…
Everyone losing their sh*t over the CMA asking whether Microsoft / OpenAI might be a merger has had since 2002 to register their outrage about how UK competition law works.
Leo Ringer retweeted
What we talk about when we talk about low investment in the UK - a 🧵
(Epistemic status: v speculative; really just me thinking aloud)
Leo Ringer retweeted
regulation & geopolitical risks = key challenges facing European tech, according to @atomico State of European Tech
👀 @formventureshq
The new City Minister @BimAfolami is right here: regulators must have incentives to take some risk, especially around new technologies - as @formventureshq has long argued, most recently here:
formventures.substack.com/p/…
The right legislative frameworks and resources are also key
Great to see DSIT working to #fixtheregulators. This needs to extend to every frontier tech and every regulator, and become embedded as the standard operating approach, not a side-project.
Legislation can restrict regulators' support for innovation - here the UK fertility regulator HFEA is explicitly asking for more flex in the law to allow it to do so, and continue to in future 👏
#fixtheregulators
The leaks thing seems less about the size of the cabinet and more about a) unprofessional politicians and b) the circulation of minutes, which was pretty far and wide amongst private offices, at least in my experience. Same with pre-release ONS data.
