👨‍💻 Tech entrepreneur helping other founders succeed 💡 Founder @StartbookApp

London, UK
Joined March 2013
Maxx Turing retweeted
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three year doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are releasing their inhibitions and feeling the rain on their skin. No one else can feel it for them, only they can le
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💫 We’re launching the Centre for British Progress Our founding essay: Rediscovering British Progress is a case for growth that drives shared progress, rooted in Britain's values and industrial heritage. It all starts with a postcard from 1870 👇 britishprogress.org/articles…
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Watching VCs add value to startups after they invest.
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software engineers adding JavaScript to everything
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Maxx Turing retweeted
Google Calendar, but it shows the cost of the meeting
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pour one out for the solo founders 🥃
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEF+ alumni, Claudine Adeyemi (@CareerEar) and Julian Boaitey (Yendy), have been selected to receive £20,000 in grant funding at this year's @CVC_Capital UK Young Innovator Awards.
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Thank you to Kiran Thadhani & @MaxxTuring for their content fuelled money workshop @TownSqIslington yesterday! Met friendly NEW local entrepreneur ✅ Tested NEW TV screen ✅ Checkout info on future events lnkd.in/e_FW53A2 #thankyou #money #events
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Our affordable workspace operator, @TownSqIslington hosts a FREE business workshop on 25 May, 10:30am-12:30pm Join @MaxxTuring and @kiranthadhani to learn about funding to help launch and grow your business Get involved: orlo.uk/xcTFp #Islington #MoreEqualFutures
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Yup, I don’t believe in work-life balance - Everything worth pursuing disbalances your life. Think startup, falling in love, having a baby. There is no perfect “balance”.
Unpopular startup opinion: "balance" is just not a thing if you're in the pursuit of hard problems. You just can't solve a tough challenge by working on it 9-5. You have to obsess over it every waking hour to have a chance of success. The sooner we accept this truth, the better
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Maxx Turing retweeted
Unpopular opinion: I like using Google Docs more than Notion
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Great to have @JustWearsHQ co-founder & our NEF+ 2018 alumna @LiuYang57 back for Inspiration Evening with 2020’s @MaxxTuring! Our current cohort got to hear Yang’s inspiring story towards launching JustWears on @Kickstarter, Dragons Den - and across the globe 💥 #Classof2022
This month marks the start of an adventure for some of the UK’s most promising entrepreneurial leaders – and our 11th cohort to date! NEF+ Class of 2022, let's get this going 💥
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Great to see so many familiar faces at #IANconf21! A huge thanks to @NTUEnterprise for providing the space to allow us to foster an environment for ideation and collaboration. Conference hosted by @HannahPrevett. Photo by @StolenOranges.
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So amazing to see some our new incoming cohort #Class of 2022, and to meet them in person. All are amazing founders and future leaders. Thank you for joining us for a quick drink. ⁦@nef_plus⁩ ⁦@CfEntrepreneurs⁩ #entrepreneurs
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Maxx Turing retweeted
In this week's Startup Life... 🤝@chartouche (@WeAreLantum) explains how COOs work with CEOs 😬@kelsddog (@marvelapp) tell us how the CEO-COO dynamic can complicate things 📚The books all new COOs should read Sign up 👉ow.ly/WcdP50FFm9k Read 👉ow.ly/szNR50FFm9l
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🏆 Chairman's Award (1/5) Our @CfEntrepreneurs Co-Founder and Chairman, Oliver Pawle, presents his personal award to Sofija Daceva (who received it virtually!) – for delivering a standout pitch at our NEF+ Pitch Week nef.plus #NEF2021
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And that's a wrap! Last Friday, our NEF+ Class of 2021 logged in for their last and final session of the programme ☀️🥂 Congratulations to our 10th batch of founders and impact-makers – we're excited to see where all of you go next!