Fred Turner
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 18 Jul
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Why is that?
I just think the UK doesn't have like some of the kind of infrastructure for startups and investing of like that many people that have kind of done a startup before and then are willing to invest in the next generation, particularly investing in younger people.
Like when I found, I tried to raise a venture round in the UK and I couldn't even get meetings.
This was when I was like, I was 18.
I was in like first year of college and I was doing this startup on the side.
I couldn't even get meetings with, I think I got like one fund to take an associate meeting with me
It seemed like people were more investing purely on credentials.
And this was a while ago, right?
This was more than 10 years ago.
But it seemed like people were investing just on, oh, well, you came out of this university.
So if you're an undergrad, how could we possibly look at this?
This doesn't make any sense.
Whereas you go to Silicon Valley and it was like, well, what's the possibility here?
What could you envision in 10 years if everything succeeds?
How big a company could this be?
And it was a very different mindset that they were optimizing for how to get the best outcome rather than... I always felt like in the UK it was sort of optimizing for mitigating the worst downstream outcome.
Yeah.
So my first company that started- I've never said that statement before in a 20 VC episode, by the way.
There we go.
It's a new phrase for you.
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