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News
- Transferwise becomes Europe’s most valuable fintech at $3.5bn valuation (City AM)
- UK businesses could boost output by billions if they invest in training and treating staff better (Independent covers CBI research)
- Silicon Valley will soon get its own stock exchange (Qz)
- Revolut the most complained-about small online bank, Financial Ombudsman Service reveals (Mail Online)
Opinion
- The cloud kitchen brews a storm for local restaurants (Michael Moritz, partner, Sequoia Capital)
- I miss the blind, dumb enthusiasm for new tech (Martin Bryant, founder, Big Revolution)
- Lack of stock options is holding Germany back (Johannes Reck, co-founder and CEO, GetYourGuide)
- An industrial strategy in the West Midlands to kickstart an industrial revolution (Andy Street, mayor of the West Midlands)
- Want to spark an e-scooter revolution in London? Ditch the language of conquest (Fredrik Hjelm, co-founder and chief exec, Voi Technology)
- Have your successors instilled your company values? (Charlie Mullins, founder, Pimlico Plumbers)
- Businesses must treat their employees better to help solve UK’s productivity problem (Matthew Fell, UK chief policy officer, CBI)
Features
- FT: Special report: Understanding entrepreneurs
- Real Business: Retail isn’t dead; it’s purging ‘half-asleep’ businesses, says Ocado chairman Lord Rose
- Gates Notes: Bill Gates reviews ‘The future of capitalism’ by Paul Collier
- Economist: The management wisdom of Bill Campbell (review of Eric Schmidt’s book on ‘the trillion dollar coach’)