James Naylor
@jh_naylor
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Founder. Techno-optimist. Building Sanctuary Health 🧬
London 🇬🇧
Joined December 2012
I had zero experience when I dropped out of university to build my startup. I would get on a sales call with an exec. in America and the attitude was 'how can we get this done!' In the UK (with some exception), and even more so in mainland Europe , the attitude I've generally found is 'What are the risks of doing this?' You don't realise the difference in mindset between the US and UK/Europe until you've done business in both. When you're young, smart and ambitious, and you're constantly hearing why you shouldn't do something, it makes it a lot less likely you take the risk and instead end up with the safe choice. (consulting, banking, law etc...) If we want the brightest ppl in the 🇬🇧 to work on the problems we face, we need the mindset to shift.
Stanford and Berkeley students start companies at 5x the rate of Oxford and Cambridge. Why the smartest, most technical people in the UK should take more risk 🚀
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RT @JNeedem: most founders I know are moving to the US a small but based af group are set on rebuilding the entrepreneurial greatness of…
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This stat is so incredible, it's actually hard to believe that it's true
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None of that foreign muck. Just traditional British kebabs and pizza for me!
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@AlexGodofsky Would assume ships sunk, but during a specific time period given the clustering. WW2?
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Ozempic has done what tens of billions of $ of venture money into virtual care startups couldn’t. Actually move the needle on obesity.
> be the us > country where 73% of people are fatasses > get ozempic for the chonkers > tfw “weight loss drug” actually fixes their diabetes, heart problems, addictions, and makes them smarter too > obesity rate finally starts going down > people stop looking like walking refrigerators > suddenly everyone’s hotter, more active, and actually does shit with their lives > no longer a nation of couch potatoes, ppl start working, building, and creating again > local communities start thriving > the neo-renaissance begins > tfw an obesity drug ends up saving western civilization
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You know you posted a banger investor update when the replies look like this
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Just found out a US competitor is bidding on our company name keyword Round 2 baby…
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Not to shit on this startup specifically, but it does exemplify the issue with these startups that start founder led and end up becoming this slow moving committee run monolith. You need shot callers at startups. Empower smart, high agency people and give them the ability to execute. The best teams ship products quickly. Weeks discussing vector sizing is a sign of a broken system.
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@ashleevance Duolingo isn’t a language learning app. It’s a game masquerading as a language learning app to make you feel good
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