a16z Podcast: London Calling for Tech Done in a Different Way

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🗓️ 20 November 2015

⏱️ 41 minutes

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If the U.K. is to continue its economic march onward and upward, technology needs to play an increasing role, say Martha Lane Fox (that's Baroness of Soho Lane-Fox in more public settings) and Russell Davies in this segment of the pod ... another one...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland here on the road in London.
0:05.0	And that woohoo you heard is from one of our special guests, Martha Lane Fox, who in the parlance is a crossbench peer, the founder of last minute.com. You seem to be doing everything. Chair of the Digital Skills Charity Go on UK,
0:21.5	and you just launched Dot Everyone.
0:23.9	Yes.
0:24.5	Martha, welcome.
0:25.3	Thank you.
0:25.9	Also, we have Russell Davies,
0:27.8	who is Head of Digital Strategy for the Co-op,
0:30.1	which is among the world's largest member-owned co-ops.
0:34.4	You were the former Head of Strategy
0:36.0	for the UK's Government digital service. You are a
0:40.8	fan of the traditional English fry-up. I am. I'm the traditional English cafe, more importantly.
0:47.9	And actually, fan seems like I'm doing you disservice. You're more like the herodotus of the
0:52.7	traditional English cafe, I think.
0:54.2	If I knew who Herodotus was,
0:55.8	I'd be pleased with that.
0:57.9	Martha is a classical scholar,
0:59.6	I'm not.
1:00.0	Oh my God.
1:00.7	Who's Herodotus?
1:01.7	Anodotus is one of the greatest historians
1:03.5	of all time,
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