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News
- A mysterious Chinese fund that promised £600m to UK startups fired its CEO and there’s no sign of the cash (Business Insider report on Cocoon Networks)
- Number of millennial directors rises (Economia covers Moore Stephens research)
- Tech Scotland Advocates launches to champion country’s tech sector (UK Tech News)
- Budget 2018: Chancellor to announce £1.5bn plan to support Britain’s high streets (Independent)
- Scrap the £3bn ‘ineffective’ apprenticeship levy rather than tweak it, Hays CEO tells Hammond (Mail on Sunday)
Opinion
- Research shows immigrants help grow businesses. Here’s why (Nataly Kelly, VP international operations and strategy, HubSpot)
- A message to the chancellor: Tax Amazon more and small businesses less (Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands)
- Silicon Valley is suffering from a serious case of missionary myopia (Jeff Bercovici, San Francisco bureau chief, Inc)
- How AI can be harnessed to help filter out unconscious bias in venture capital (Ashley Lundström (venture lead, EQT Ventures)
- The promise and peril of a star CEO (Erik Gordon, clinical asst prof, University of Michigan)
- Establishing an AI code of ethics will be harder than people think (Karen Hao, journalist, MIT Technology Review)
Features
- Elite Business: Why female founders are underfunding compared to their male counterparts
- TechCrunch: Tech’s ethical crisis over venture capital goes beyond Saudi Arabia
- Fast Company: How Dara Khosrowshahi’s Iranian heritage shapes how he leads Uber
- BBC: What wine has to do with our productivity problem