Olivia Lee
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142 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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If you were a young, hungry entrepreneur in Europe at that time, the place you wanted to be was London.
The internet revolution had arrived in Europe and London was at the centre of it.
There were suddenly huge investments being made into internet start-ups and people thought they were in for making a lot of money.
She started working at an investment firm called New Media Investors.
So it was a venture capital firm that invested in internet startups.
And through this firm, she met Brent Hoberman, who was the founder of LastMinute.com.
At the time, Brent had been approached by a group of individuals about getting involved in a startup, and he was really busy at the time, so he recommended Julie to get involved instead.
The company was called First Tuesday, a networking business for founders and investors to meet.
These events were super exciting.
If you were a young entrepreneur with an idea for a business, you wanted to be at First Tuesday.
Entrepreneurs would be given green dots on their name badges and investors were given red dots.
You'd get these swarm of green dots, you know, furiously pitching their ideas to investors with red dots.
The parties were becoming so popular that they eventually hired out the Lord's Cricket Club.
And was First Tuesday raking it in as well?
So interestingly, even though a lot of businesses that went to First Tuesday were making money, First Tuesday wasn't.
So people I spoke to told me it was essentially a glorified cocktail party.
So they ended up bringing in a guy called Reid Farrs.
She sets up a new firm called Ariadne Capital.
Ariadne Capital provides advice to startups and helps them to raise money.
She advised Skype, e-spotting, Monetai, so these really big names at the time.
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