Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem

Tom Hulme is a General Partner at GV and leads GV’s European investing. He has led rounds in Monzo, Nothing, GoCardless, Lemonade, and Snyk, and is widely considered one of the best investors in Europe.

Stan Boland is one of the most successful and respected entrepreneurs in the UK. In 1999, he co-founded Element 14, which was acquired by Broadcom in 2000 for $640 million. He then co-founded Icera Inc. in 2002, a fabless semiconductor company that was sold to Nvidia for $367 million.

In Today’s Discussion We Cover:

• Is the UK’s biggest problem a talent problem

• Why we need to flood the UK with venture capital

• What Europe can learn from Stripe and the Collisons

• How the UK can use visas to retain the best talent

• Why the government needs to put 10x more cash into fund of funds

• Is the London Stock Exchange f***** and does it matter?

• What the UK can learn from Sequoia and the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund

• What is a “national goal for wealth creation” and how do we implement it?

• What are the most broken elements of the UK tax regime

• Is it stupid to remove the non-dom tax status

• Why now is the time to be bullish on China

• Biggest lessons from working with Jensen Huang