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slash disclosures. Welcome to the A16Z podcast.

I'm Michael Copeland.

And we are still in London and we are lucky to have with us two of London's most interesting and dynamic entrepreneurs and investors.

Reisch-Mahoni founding partner of Seed Camp.

You guys are the fund for first-time founders of choice, or that's what you want to do.

I can't even say it.

Close. We're trying to be, we're aiming to be kind of the choice of European founders as their

first-round fund in, you know, cross. So we're extremely aggressive for Europe. We're doing

about 40 investments a year, so that puts us in quite the very active kind of investor role here.

Extremely aggressive. And you will note from Reshma's accent that she is also from the US,

but has been here for 14 years and is drinking tea. So maybe she is British after all.

And we have with us also a man who is known by one name here in the London investing in

community shack, who is a longtime entrepreneur and investor in the London investing in community, Shaq, who is a long-time entrepreneur

and investor, and was the man at Spotify for Daniel Eck who sort of got everything done. Shack,

welcome. Thank you for having me. We've had a lot of discussion about London as a tech center.

What pieces are in place and, you know, what can London become that's unique to itself as opposed to

trying to emulate Silicon Valley? Yeah, I mean, I think, you know, last five years and we've been

around sort of eight years is a lot of the fundamentals are there. So you've got everything from

beginnings of policy to encourage investment, talent with visas and so forth to the universities

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