Luke Knight
@lukeknight
Host @etslive_
Great to see Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds call a wealth tax what it is: a daft populist idea. Hiking capital gains or introducing a wealth tax on entrepreneurs is clearly a terrible idea for growth. These are the most mobile people in the economy — target them again, and…
Everyone says focus on one thing or you won’t be successful. Had a convo with a founder yesterday who said their brain works better context switching so they deliberately take more things on. They run 4 lifestyle businesses and makes £6k per day. I agree with him.
Looking forward to this chat
BREAKING: @meetcleo hits $250m ARR and is looking at an IPO 2024 results announcements: - $136m of annual revenue (+106% YoY) - $0.7m of losses before tax (vs $16m in 2023) - 743k of subscribers (+42% YoY) CEO, @Barney_H_Y said that the company is doing $250m ARR and that…
We spoke to @harveyhodd CEO @Rivanindustries about Rivan’s mission to take more carbon dioxide from the air than anyone else in the world. “There’s vast amount of carbon in the sky and there’s not a good way to drive down the cost of getting it out the sky” Rivan’s hypothesis:…
We crossed €1m ARR and 500+ customers in just 6 months. Here are 5 main things we learned about building a fast-scaling company: 1) Pick a good category. Selling something people don’t need is just too hard. In B2B, you need to solve a big, painful problem to get people to…
BREAKING: @lovable_dev has become the fastest software company in history to hit $100m ARR! Faster than: 🔥 @OpenAI 🔥 @cursor_ai 🔥 Wiz This follows it's $200m Series A (on a $1.8bn valuation) led by @Accel with other backers including @HarryStebbings, @byFounders,…
We are LIVEEE - 103 in the chat talking EU tech, vc, innovation x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
gm ETSL is going live in less than an hour. Here's the line up - @danonanthony, Founder and investor @ Rerail - @martinbielickii, Founder @ Bench - Uthish Ranjan, Partner @OctopusVentures - Avion Gray, Cofounder @ Belong -Aadit Gandhi VP @apispartners - Odhran O'Donoghue,…
Gm We’re going live at 11:20am. LFGGG Here’s the line up today: - Uthish Ranjan, Partner at @OctopusVentures @ 11:30 -Avion Gray, Cofounder at Belong @ 12:00 -Aadit Gandhi VP at @apispartners @ 12:30 - @danonanthony , Founder and investor at Rerail @ 13:00 - @martinbielickii…
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Miami, Vancouver, Chicago and London. We're hiring Hampton moderators to lead IRL core groups in those cities. Leading month meetings with 8 entrepreneurs - that's the job! Pretty great. Comment on here or DM me if interested!
Virtually every other tweet on my feed is about @lovable_dev unicorn status (not a bad thing) But they also went full-stack. Which might have gone a bit under the radar. Owning the backend = Native API integration, Easier MCP embedding, Infra-level access to tools like…
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BREAKING: UK AI startup Magentic emerges from stealth with a $5.5m round led by @sequoia Capital! The company, founded by Robin Van Aeken and Odhran O'Donoghue, is building an AI Agent Platform that hunts and delivers savings across global manufacturing supply chains. With…
What the hell is happening let’s goooo
ETSL SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT @ETSLive_ is now sponsored by: - Checkout.com - Specter Five weeks after launch we have two headline sponsors LFGGG @Checkout and @SpecterHQ are coming onboard for our first ever live show ETSL will be officially "Live" TOMORROW at…
The private equity board before firing the CFO for missing EBITDA expectation by 0.2%
JUST IN: @ETSLive_ is now sponsored by Checkout.com and Specter! LETS GO 🚀 Five weeks after launching ETS Live I am thrilled to announce that we have secured two headline sponsors: 🔥 @Checkout 🔥 @SpecterHQ These two companies are coming onboard for our first…
Interesting. Come on @ETSLive_ to chat about it?
Most European accelerators push founders toward building at the local maximum: take ideas, demo day pitches, markup wins. At The Sandbox, you don’t need to build a company or raise money. Just explore what you’re truly curious about. Apply now if you are a technical & curious…
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