What a week! ⚡️ Started the week at Google, meeting some brilliant startups from Baltic Ventures - always energising to connect with founders building bold new ideas. (Special shoutout to Joshua Sinclair, Massimo Formby MSc, David Dixon, Ali Adam & Dragos P. for the great conversations!) Midweek, I was back at Nesta for our Nesta Mission Studio Reverse Pitch Night with Zinc, Carbon13 and Conception X, where talent investors shared how we all tackling some of the UK’s biggest challenges and support founders to do this. And to top it off, I wrapped the week at the Sifted Summit - listening to an excellent talk from John Hunter (Ingrid Capacity) on the future of GridTech, then I hosted a roundtable with Chloe Coleman on “Success and Failure as Mission-Driven Founders.” Proud (and slightly amazed!) that ours turned out to be from some estimations the biggest roundtable of the summit - with ~30 founders, investors, and ecosystem builders all sharing open, honest reflections on what it really takes to build ventures that matter. Was great to run into Yvonne Biggins and Jiggs Barasara and have lunch and a catch up. A week full of energy, honesty, and inspiration - the perfect reminder of why I love working at the intersection of innovation and impact. #innovation #venturebuilding #missiondriven #startups #nesta #siftedsummit #googleforstartups
Lovely to meet and chat with you, Aaron!
It was great chatting Aaron John! Looking forward to catching up soon 😎
On fire 🔥 what a week!
Crazy week Aaron John! 🔥
Thanks for holding the space so masterfully alongside Chloe!
Thank you for joining us Aaron John!
Aaron John I loved seeing you and I also loved the conversation around the round table. I thought the founder (forgot his name) that commented on how we’re living in a time where we all seem to hate each other and where has the care and compassion gone, to be on point. A very refreshing conversation. Thanks for telling me about it.