20VC: How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem | Why We Need to Flood the UK with Venture Capital | What the UK Can Learn From Sequoia, Stripe and Norway | Why Now is the Time to be Bullish on China & Lessons from Jensen Huang with Tom Hulme & Stan Boland

$20 trillion of value created in the last 50 years in building decorns in in the US. The UK's created two, about 170 billion of value in the UK. So the lack of capital crimps the ambition of companies and therefore the best founders go to the states. We need to flood the UK with venture capital is what we need. If you graduate in an engineering or computer science or something here,

Yeah, you should have stapled your graduation certificate, a tier two visa. This is 20VC with me, Harry Stebbings, and today is a special show as we sit down with two incredibly special people. The UK, to put it mildly, it's not in great shape. And so I wanted to do an episode with two phenomenal minds to clearly analyse the problems that we face and then break down very specifically specific and granular solutions.

So joining me in the hot seat, we have Tom Hume, general partner at GV, where he leads all GV's European investing. Joining Tom is Stan Bolan, one of the most successful and respected entrepreneurs in the UK. He sold his first company for $640 million and his second to Nvidia for $367 million, where he then went on to work with Jensen Huang. But before we dive in today, here are two fun facts about our newest brand sponsor, Kajabi. First, their customers just crossed a collective $8 billion in total revenue.

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