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Great to share the stage with jeffrey kolovson at #websummit to talk about scaling GoCardless & Faire. Apparently it managed to keep my 1yo daughter occupied for more than 5 mins so we must have done something right!

The toughest part of growing Segment from $0-200M+ ARR was letting go of product (which I understood) to focus on go-to-market (which I didn't). In 2017 I was really struggling with this. Five friends set me straight, a thread. 1/12

Permira Growth Opportunities has led a $312m investment in GoCardless, a leading fintech in direct bank payment solutions. The company becomes the latest European and UK tech unicorn at a valuation of $2.1bn. We’re delighted to support Hiroki Takeuchi and his team!

Super excited to have Permira & BlackRock UK join our journey to become the world’s bank pay network! It feels like an incredible validation of what we’ve built so far, but more importantly of the opportunity ahead of us. Still so much to build! gocardless.com/blog/gocardles…

Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is… Q. What’s the worst leadership advice you’ve heard? A. By far the worst is “Hire great people and get out of their way”. Let me explain… 🧵 (1/32)

Today is the deadline to apply for the next batch of Y Combinator ycombinator.com/apply

An entire generation of entrepreneurs & tech investors built their entire perspectives on valuation during the second half of a 13-year amazing bull market run. The "unlearning" process could be painful, surprising, & unsettling to many. I anticipate denial. Some thoughts:

Having survived two previous market resets (2001, 2009), people frequently ask me how this 2022 market reset is different and how it is the same. The obvious similarity is that valuation multiples have collapsed. We went from a "glass very full" mindset to one with many concerns.

This is a great articulation of my personal rule #1 to leadership

Great to see incident.io launch on Product Hunt 😸 - congrats team!

The govt deserves a lot of kudos for this. We narrowly averted disaster for many tech start ups that will hopefully one day power our economy. Given the circumstances this is the best possible outcome. Many founders are feeling very relieved this morning. Now back to building!

Great behind the scenes tour of Tom Blomfield’s journey so far. Takes me back to the early days! youtu.be/QKPgBAnbc10?si… via YouTube

Great Y Combinator video by Michael Seibel & Dalton Caldwell about one of the mistakes we made a lot of in the early days @gocardless. Focus your innovation on what matters to your customer, don’t spread it around! youtu.be/FNwu440UxhU?si…

We’ve just launched incident.io On-call and I couldn’t be more excited! 🎉 Our goal was “so good, you’ll break things on purpose” and we’ve poured our hearts and souls into this one. I think it shows ❤️

Exciting new development by the incident.io team. Love seeing their pace of development!

Great post! Totally agree with this

Very sad news that Steve O’hear passed away. After my spinal cord injury, Steve was the first journalist I spoke to. As I re-read that interview, he called me a “relative newbie” to being disabled. I think that sums him up. Steve had a real knack for needling you whilst also

A very worthy cause!