Luke Harries

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1,470 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 11 Jan

Luke Harries’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Yeah, so we met when we were 19 and we did a hackathon at Cambridge.

We rocked up.

It's me, Matty, this guy called Philip who organized it.

He's Polish and he basically brought together his smartest friends and me to compete at this hackathon.

My top tip for any young people listening is do hackathons with your smartest friends.

Because what happened with that hackathon is, one, we end up winning the Microsoft Prize.

So we each won an Xbox and immediately put that on eBay.

So we got about 300 quid.

Two, it landed me my first job at Microsoft.

And then I also got to meet Matty.

And Matty and I, we stayed in touch pretty much every six months.

We catch up, we riff on startups and scroll forward about seven years.

So this is a year and a half ago.

Matty's like, hey, Luke, I've just started a new company.

Do you want to go catch up?

And I was angel investing then.

And we were swimming in the Hampstead Heath ponds.

And when I tell Americans this, they're like, oh, ponds, you mean like small, dirty puddle of water?

I'm like,

Yeah, but it's actually quite nice.

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