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Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem

Tom Hulme is a Managing Partner & Head of Europe @ GV. He has led rounds in Monzo, Nothing, GoCardless, Lemonade, Snyk and is widely considered one of the best investors in Europe.

Stan BolandguestTom HulmeguestHarry Stebbingshost
Apr 10, 20251h 26mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
April 10, 2025
Duration
1h 26m
Channel
The Twenty Minute VC
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Tom Hulme is a Managing Partner & Head of Europe @ GV. He has led rounds in Monzo, Nothing, GoCardless, Lemonade, Snyk and is widely considered one of the best investors in Europe. Stan Boland is one of the most successful and respected entrepreneurs in the UK. In 1999, he co-founded Element 14 which was acquired by Broadcom in 2000 for $640 million. Following this, Boland co-founded Icera Inc. in 2002, a fabless semiconductor company which he sold to Nvidia for $367 million. ---------------------------------------------- In Today’s Episode We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:03 Is The UK’s Biggest Problem a Talent Problem 06:51 Why We Need to Flood the UK With Venture Capital 07:55 What Europe Can Learn from Stripe and the Collisons 13:15 How the UK Can Use Visas to Retain the Best Talent 14:37 Why the Government Needs to Put 10x More Cash Into Fund of Funds 22:30 Is the London Stock Exchange F****** and Does it Matter? 33:52 What The UK Can Learn From Sequoia and the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund 40:18 What is a “National Goal for Wealth Creation” & How Do We Implement It? 48:23 What are the Most Broken Elements of the UK Tax Regime 53:17 Is It Stupid to Remove the Non-Dom Tax Status 54:22 Why is Now the Time to Be Bullish on China 01:02:10 Biggest Lessons from Working with Jensen Huang 01:10:47 Quick Fire Round: Insights and Predictions ----------------------------------------------- Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3j2KMcZTtgTNBKwtZBMHvl?si=85bc9196860e4466 Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-twenty-minute-vc-20vc-venture-capital-startup/id958230465 Follow Harry Stebbings on X: https://twitter.com/HarryStebbings Follow Stan Boland on X: https://twitter.com/stanboland Follow Tom Hulme on X: https://twitter.com/thulme Follow 20VC on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/20vchq Follow 20VC on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@20vc_tok Visit our Website: https://www.20vc.com Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/contact ----------------------------------------------- #20vc #harrystebbings #stanboland #tomhulme #ceo #founder #gv #icera #venturecapital #uktax #jensenhuang #visa

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  • Stan Boland

    guest
  • Tom Hulme

    guest
  • Harry Stebbings

    host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Twenty Minute VC, featuring Stan Boland and Tom Hulme, Tom Hulme & Stan Boland: Lessons from Jensen Huang & How to Fix the UK Tech Ecosystem explores Fixing UK Tech: Capital, Talent, and Lessons From Jensen Huang Stan Boland and Tom Hulme dissect why the UK massively underperforms the US in tech value creation and what structural changes are required to fix it. They argue the UK’s core problems are constrained venture capital, insufficient top-tier founders/operators, policy distortion (R&D credits, tax), and weak talent retention versus the US. The pair propose radically scaling fund-of-funds capital via the British Business Bank, refocusing subsidies from zombie R&D into active VC, expanding visas and CS education, and setting an explicit national wealth-creation goal. They also discuss AI’s stack (chips to apps), China’s rise, non-dom taxation, London’s future, and leadership lessons from NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang.

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