Welcome to the A16Z podcast here on the road in London, where today Sonal and I are sitting down with three guests to help us talk about entrepreneurial ecosystems and how the effort to build such an ecosystem is playing out here in London and more broadly the UK.

To help us do that, we have Michelle Yu, a co-founder of Songkick, which is a concert discovery

and ticketing company.

Also joining us is Nick Babayan, who ran mobile at Skype and more recently co-founded Lifekick,

which is a photo app for parents and a company that was recently bought by Canon.

And finally, Matt Clifford joins the pod,

a co-founder of Entrepreneur First,

which is an accelerator that has a twist on the whole thing by identifying technical talent

and then funding those people

before they've actually started a company.

Welcome to the podcast.

So we've only been here a day or two,

and even just walking down the street and talking to folks,

we've noticed that the economy is certainly booming here in London and presumably outside London as well in the UK.

But to what extent is what we're noticing on the street and even in you know, in the shops and in the way people

are bustling around.

What does that have to do with tech?

Well, I think what's actually interesting about London is that technology is, it's probably

the technology hub for Europe and for the startup scene, but it's the regional hub for a bunch

of other industries, especially industries that are being changed

by technology, advertising, finance, the list is long. And I actually think that's an interesting

difference about London is that technology doesn't dominate everything. And there are a lot of people

...