"welcome to the a 16z podcast I'm Michel Copeland and we are still in London and we were lucky to have with us two of London's most interesting and dynamic entrepreneurs and investors Reshma Suhani fou..."

"of discussion about london as a tech center what pieces are in place and you know what can lend them become that's unique to itself as opposed to trying to emulate Silicon Valley yeah I mean I think y..."

"Schaech what else is missing I think Krishna's final point there is very very relevant to encourage entrepreneurs that seed capital has to come from somewhere and at the moment when I look around a lo..."

"never heard of Simon Nixon since apart from last week when I came across a boutique website advertising five different villas in the countryside and apparently the assignment nixon's homes which he re..."

"or so behind I mean I have to say it's not you know London is the world's largest financial center who kind of bounces back and forth between London and New York and just speaking of New York then it'..."

"coming over I think the London Financial Center versus tech are two separate things apart from where thin tech is involved they seem like two very different industries unlike Wall Street where a lot o..."

"there is that sort of sense of being able to to solve kind of variety of problems and dealing with those problems are promised solved differently here and and or regionally for that matter like do you..."

"far more cultural inputs than a couple in those states would be UK has probably been the last and machers out of European countries Germany and UK are pretty big populations in their own and I go back..."

"revolution right so we're not seeing such biases that we saw a generation ago and if you see look at the marketplace businesses it's actually no longer about country yeah it's cities right which citie..."

"users kind of of a same type is it is it the city that's the defining characteristic and the density and kind of urban lifestyle as opposed to the region I would think so I mean when we when our compa..."

"need to go international so let's put our office in London and let's send Peter or Lucy who went to Stanford and did a semester in Paris because there aren't lived there and you can go Europe and you ..."

"of halo which is a brilliant service I use it all the time but my crazy halo is is a version of what well it's a transportation thing I know that it's they branched out a bit more but you know yeah yo..."

"them going hey we've done London let's go tackle USA I would have done Paris Munich yeah Berlin Copenhagen Sweden you suddenly have a huge network you have a huge brand and you have a solid company ha..."

"young individual who walks into the record labels again hey I have a solution for your declining revenue and this is what's I said give all the music away free of charge and I remember when he'd get p..."

"why not do it and so really I'm the accidental investor I had zero desire to be in the investment world Wow in in Mexico we call that cojones so I wanted to sort of describe what the entrepreneur that..."

"kind of lack of that it's changed dramatically for the for the founders we're backing today I mean just so much more astute everyone's reading the same thing you're exposed to podcasts like this and a..."

"career path whatever that would have been whether it'd been in traditional banking or whatever who knows what would have happened but the country has never been as entrepreneurial as the USA has and t..."

"oh wow bankrupt and reshma you've been here long enough to I think realize there is that stigma about faith and I think maybe actually the chat it's a really good point I think the challenges were see..."

"out to pay for silly mistakes that were done by institutions etc etc so is it is it policy that needs change and I think it's a combination of everything hey it's just time right the world changes and..."

"you start to see talent leave here hopefully exit have a bit of wealth they will start to create funds and they will become angel investors and so forth so I think that'll help I think you know role m..."

"well we're really excited and we've been an incredibly active investor obviously in FinTech but property tech as of as of late as well and and to Shaq's point from before you know we do think UK start..."

"can see that playing well in San Francisco Shack so it's not a portfolio company or mine it's a company out of Germany Berlin company called get your guide there just announced million dollars raised ..."

"they're a portfolio company yours and I'm believe they're a seed coming I can't sing the praises high enough and you know had I had the chance I don't know whether I actually did or not I've probably ..."