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Managing Partner @GVTeam (Google Ventures) where we support high growth tech companies. // Previously founded @OpenIDEO @IDEO
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My TED talk has now had over 1.5 million views
(the power of Ted rather than the power of Tom)
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I have been dogfooding the Phone(1) for over a month and couldn't be more impressed - the glyph interface brings back joy and the software release cycle has been amazing 🦾
@nothing
❤️📱🐩❤️
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Agree - the Phone(2) hands-on experience is a clear step up, I have had that reaction from Phone(1) users that I have handed it to; interestingly iPhone users are always really intrigued too. Amazing job
@Nothing
team, the phone and software are things of beauty...
No, just wait till you have the product in hand.
Source: trust me, bro
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'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs' Stanford speech lives on, reading it will be best 5 mins you can spend today:
http://t.co/ce0c7fbN
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What
@getpeid
and the
@Nothing
team have accomplished in less than 3 years is truly remarkable. They have defied the odds and sold over 1.5M products in one of the most competitive industries in the world, showcasing their ability to succeed where others have failed.
I'm very
We’re excited to share that we’ve recently closed a $96M financing round, led by Highland Europe, with participation from
@GVteam
,
@EQTVentures
, C Capital and
@swedishousemfia
alongside others.
As we’ve just crossed 1.5M products sold, this marks a new milestone on our journey
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@Nothing
raised $1.5 Million in 54 Seconds - a new record on
@Crowdcube
, congrats
@getpeid
back to building :)
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Nothing is shaking up the tech world and proving that people are craving a new alternative, even in one of the most competitive industries
Congratulations team
@nothing
Excited to share that Nothing is the world’s fastest growing brand for smartphones and wireless earbuds.
📱 Smartphones:
- 693% YoY growth in Q2 2024
- 246% YoY growth in H1 2024
- Fastest growing brand in UK, Japan, Saudi Arabia and India in H1 2024
🎧 Wireless earbuds:
- 769%
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Once more
@Nothing
back at it with the
@CMFbyNothing
Phone1 - congrats to the whole team!
"maybe the most instantly recommendable phone I've ever used"
@Mrwhosetheboss
"the design of this phone feels special"
@wallpapermag
"2024’s best smartphone bargain"
@DigitalTrends
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I'm hugely impressed with
@RishiSunak
's thoughts on AI, tech and investment. More convening and leadership than we have seen for years
@10DowningStreet
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After collaborating with Perplexity on Phone (2a), it's exciting to see
@Nothing
further embrace AI across products by integrating ChatGPT into the Nothing earbuds and Nothing OS.
As AI performance radically improves, it's an amazing accelerant for a player like Nothing:
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We all worry about technical debt in fast growing companies but I think cultural debt is far scarier and will destroy more...
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Delighted to double down on
@nothing
...
I’m excited to share that
@nothing
has raised $70M in Series B financing led by
@eqtventures
and
@CVenturesfund
, with participation from
@GVteam
and others.
Growing up as a huge tech fan, I’m proud to be contributing to the industry that once inspired me so much. 🧵👇
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@nothing
launched the Phone (2a) today - I was delighted to join
@getpeid
and
@AkisEvangelidis
with a small cameo describing why we at
@GVteam
are all so excited -->
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I continue to be so inspired by
@nothing
The last 3 years have been about building the blocks (team, partners, >3m devices shipped...), those become the launch pad for incredible new experiences powered by AI
Here
@getpeid
gives a teaser of that future ->
There's been a lot of hype around AI. Some great, some confusing. It’s great to see new companies rethinking the user experience and form factors. However, there is no doubt that smartphones will remain the main consumer AI form factor for the foreseeable future. With over 4
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A computer was asked to predict which start-ups would be successful. The results were astonishing
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You become what you measure.
Ergo, optimising stuff you can measure often pushes you away from any important immeasurable stuff.
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My talk on Innovation and Design from the G8 conference:
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Great London-based Industrial and Software designer roles open for
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🖤🎵
Nothing x Swedish House Mafia
@swedishousemfia
have composed an exclusive Glyph Sound Pack for Phone (2), giving you a taste of what's coming up.
With the new Glyph Composer, you can personalise and remix Swedish House Mafia's custom sounds. Tap the pads to trigger different
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"Great Board Directors behave like shock absorbers, not amplifiers"
wisdom from
@roelofbotha
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Jonny Ive: "Focus groups are designers and leadership abdicating responsibility"
#britbizembassy
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Warren Buffett wins $1M bet made a decade ago that the S&P 500 stock index would outperform hedge funds
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So privileged to have watched your rise, and to have one of our weekly chats in public
I’ve been doing 20VC for 10 years.
There have been good times, there have been bad times.
Through all of them,
@Thulme
has been there for me.
He is one of the greats, and this show was a result of years in friendship.
My top lessons 👇
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Introducing our newest Partner in London and a recap of what we've been up to
@GVteam
in Europe
Looking forward to investing another $500m in inspiring companies like
@synthesia
@Lemonade_Inc
@snyksec
@GoCardless
@Scandit
@JoinMultiverse
@nothing
🚀
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I'm excited to moderate
@pitchatpalace
for
@TheDukeOfYork
this evening, best of luck to all 42 entrepreneurs pitching!
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Congratulations
@OneMorePeter
and all
@blockchain
- inspiring to see the pace of execution accelerate even during hyper-growth
Looking forward to seeing what's next 🚀🚀
cc
@GVteam
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So pleased that our portfolio companies
@VaccitechLtd
&
@OSI_Updates
reached this important agreement with
@AstraZeneca
- I believe this maximises the chance that we will be able to offer an effective vaccine to those that need it most, globally
We’re partnering with
@AstraZeneca
to ensure that our
#COVID19
vaccine, if successful, can be manufactured & distributed to those who need it as quickly as possible.
This will be on a not-for-profit basis for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic:
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Zappos is struggling with Holacracy because humans aren’t designed to operate like software
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Entrepreneurs built 82 billion-dollar Internet companies outside SV since 2003, vs 52 inside:
http://t.co/tTOuAH8eE3
via
@Atomico
@ediggs
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Great to see a $725 million fund to invest in the next generation of FLOW companies and also the announcement of
@instagram
's support for
@flow_blockchain
today
Congrats
@roham
and team
#GoWithTheFlow
//
@GVteam
Flow Blockchain Raises $725 Million Ecosystem Fund From DCG, a16z and Others
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Best of luck today team
@Lemonade_Inc
, still early in the journey but an important milestone --> listing as $LMND on
@NYSE
cc
@GVteam
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If your strategy doesn't help you say no to most stuff it's not a strategy
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Our latest
@GoogleVentures
investment in Europe is
@secret_escapes
->
http://t.co/71fNWZUWlL
alongside
@Octopus_UK
&
@IndexVentures
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"Bitcoin protocol is like the early internet; a network that nobody owns that shows strong network effects"
@bhorowitz
@a16z
#foundersforum
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"Focus groups are not research; they’re research theater"
& the ‘Failure’ culture of startups by
@smc90
http://t.co/Prw2alRey9
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investments in companies with at least one female founder meaningfully outperformed investments in all-male teams.
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Google reveals plans for UK HQ in Kings Cross - I'm excited that it practically has the garden bridge on the roof :)
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"When I was a CEO I slept like a baby; I woke up every two hours and cried"
@bhorowitz
@a16z
#foundersforum
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Woah - Star Wars Episode VII and Episode VIII titles combine ->
The Force Awakens The Last Jedi.
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I redesigned my site:
http://t.co/jUrfELzEPy
- luckily it's a little slicker than my 1st sketch :) (link fixed) ->
http://t.co/PzU18ne15O
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A core IDEO value: if a picture is worth 1,000 words, a prototype is worth 1,000 meetings
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‘under pressure, you don't rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training’
Navy SEAL saying
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Proud to continue to support
@dapperlabs
- to have built multiple breakout consumer applications, a decentralized blockchain and on/off ramp wallet is extraordinary
Looking forward to seeing what's next
@roham
,
@Mik_Naayem
and team
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New Google tool to see how your community is moving around differently due to COVID-19 ->
Here's London's change:
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🤯 To see one of our portfolio companies
@zipline
begin deliveries of the Oxford Covid vaccine co-developed by another of our portfolio companies
@vaccitech
in Ghana...
Proud of the
@GVteam
portfolio's global impact 🥰
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So delighted that the AZ / Oxford / Vaccitech vaccine is approved
Thanks again to all the teams that have worked around the clock on this
‘A landmark moment’ for the UK’s fight against
#COVID19
: today we welcome the news that
@MHRAgovuk
has authorised the safe & effective
#OxfordVaccine
for emergency use in the UK >>
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Voted. Irrespective of outcome I hope everyone that's campaigned so hard devotes similar energy to building bridges
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Heartbroken to learn
@claychristensen
passed away, he was the teacher that shaped my career more than any other, I was lucky to consider him a friend. Sending all my love to his wonderful family ❤️
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Re
@GoogleVentures
- starting in January we’ll operate as a global fund, rather than running separate US and European funds....
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It's 5 years since we launched
@OpenIDEO
- I'm very proud of what the amazing community and team made it...
http://t.co/0t8u4hXwe8
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Founders - why not have your customers pitch to the VC for your funding, at least in an initial email? (I have not seen this once)
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💙 Delighted 2 of our portfolio companies are collaborating here - congrats
@stripe
&
@blockchain
💙
@patrickc
/
@collision
/
@gponcin
🙏
@OneMorePeter
/
@niccary
/
@tuffleuk
Since we announced the Stripe Crypto team last October, we've been hard at work onboarding crypto companies such as
@FTX_Official
,
@blockchain
,
@niftygateway
, and
@JustMiningFr
: .
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Social sites scale by allowing you to 'follow people like you' but we could all do with an option to 'follow people unlike you'...
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"Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always"
#WorldMentalHealthDay
via
@shak
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.
@jeremysliew
and
@OneMorePeter
think bitcoin could realistically be worth $500,000 by 2030 - certainly conceivable
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4 Big Trends Shaping The Future Of Design (with some inspiring examples)
http://t.co/2difZY3G7F
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At just $99, the Nothing Ear (1) is a see-through success. Read our full review of the new wireless earbuds:
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We're excited to announce our investment in Blue Vision Labs, which builds ‘collaborative’ AR, and emerges from stealth today:
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The Scots voted overwhelmingly to remain but let's not get bogged down with the facts
Just arrived in Scotland. Place is going wild over the vote. They took their country back, just like we will take America back. No games!
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If you have a mediocre product to launch quietly now is the right time
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A good read - 4 ways Google Ventures combine the Hacker Way with Design Thinking
http://t.co/wRNpozN80A
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It's such a privilege for all of us
@gvteam
to support
@guypod
for a 2nd time - partnering with Guy, the awesome team he is assembling and
@edsim
/
@Boldstartvc
feels like getting the
@snyksec
band back together 🚀
I’m excited to introduce my new company,
@tessl_io
!
We’re reimagining software development for the AI era, and helping shape a new software development paradigm we call AI Native Software Development.
The AI tools we use for development today are novel and powerful, and we
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You can't attract and retain great employees unless you're a great employer
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My piece on what we should be teaching our kids:
(forgive the click-bait headline which I didn't write)
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"Most dangerous creature I've come across in 60 years of film-making is the drunk, male homo-sapiens"
Sir David Attenborough
#zeitgeist15
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In 2013 I worked on a project with Clay and spent a lot of time in Boston away from home; Clay sent my wife flowers thanking her as it must have been tough for her 💐
That's the only time in my career that anyone has done that and I have traveled a lot...
Heartbroken to learn
@claychristensen
passed away, he was the teacher that shaped my career more than any other, I was lucky to consider him a friend. Sending all my love to his wonderful family ❤️
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Over the next few months as policy is shaped we all have an increased responsibility to share positive stories of immigration...
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"If the rate of experimentation inside a company is lower than outside then it is becoming irrelevant"
#GLS2014
@profhamel
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Proud to interview the amazing Sarah Gilbert of
@vaccitech
and
@UniofOxford
at
@Founders_Forum
Nobody has done more to fight covid with the AZ vaccine having now been administered to >500m people in 177 countries
A hero
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Craig Venter showing how accurately he can predict what people look like from only their dna.
#WIREDHealth
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