Author Archives: Silicon Roundabout

Why we say “f**k dating apps, 6 days of the week”. Monday 3rd: New match! Tuesday 4th: Hi, how are you? Wednesday 12th: Hey! I’m good thanks. Thursday 20th: Sorry, been busy! What’s up? Friday 21st: Nothing much! Would be …

What were your biggest learnings from your experiences with Lovefilm,Secret Escapes and Oxalyst? Those three businesses have very little in common, except that they all took inspiration from something successful and tried to replicate the model somewhere else. Two of …

Play a little game with me. Think of the last purchase you made online, that was important to you. Maybe a holiday you booked, a hotel, a new TV, even booking a restaurant. Have you got something in mind? Now …

What were you biggest learnings at Jefferies? Jefferies was a great learning experience for me. Whether you agree with the banking culture or not (most people don’t), you tend to understand your true self a little bit better when it’s …

Getting the advocacy we need from the UK Government to support its home-grown tech champions like Lifebit on the global stage. This is seen in the public sector here in the UK, but on the whole the UK has a …

What were your biggest learnings at Boston Consulting Group? I joined BCG at a senior consultant level, having 5 years of experience in consumer products previously. I joined the Financial Services practice (at my request – I wanted experience outside …

When I started Envoy in 2013, I knew a secret that few did: workplaces lacked user-friendly, experience-centered tools. Working at Google in the early days, we had access to a lot of amazing user-friendly internal tools, built by people in …

What is the future of food? It is the question on the lips of entrepreneurs, investors and those up and down the global food supply chain. From picking to plate, technology is altering how we interact with food. This turn …

In his 2020 BBC Reith Lecture Series, Mark Carney, former Governor of the Banks of Canada (2008–2013) and England (2013–2020), opened with a challenge to the conventions and values of the mainstream finance system. Finance, Carney argued, could no longer …

The PayPal news is definitely one indicator of change. But much more radical shifts are already well underway. Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has over $80bn locked in it, having started only a couple of years ago. DeFi lets you control your …