Early-stage tech VC and recovering work- and tech- oholic. Online identity full circle: Eileen Tso, Eileen Broch, Eileen Burbidge
London
Joined February 2009
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thanks @ginadav @byayeshajaved @TIME Magazine for incl “How London Cornered the Fintech Market” in its #TIME2030 series and @olivia_harris for the flattering snap! 🙏🇬🇧 (w/ @AnneBoden @NStoronsky @MayorofLondon @hmtreasury @ShampaRoyMukhe3 John Doran @TCVTech @simonschmincke)
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Stanford and Berkeley students start companies at 5x the rate of Oxford and Cambridge.
Why the smartest, most technical people in the UK should take more risk 🚀
tomblomfield.com/post/750852…
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Honoured to be included in @Siftedeu's 'Fertility startups to watch'.
According to @AntlerGlobal investor Sarah Finegan, "Any company with @eileentso, founding partner of @passioncapital, as its executive director is worth watching."
We think so too ☺️
sifted.eu/articles/fertility…
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Tom Cotton: "Have you ever been a member of the Chinese Communist Party?"
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew: "Senator, I'm Singaporean. No!"
Cotton: "Have you ever been associated or affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party?"
Chew: "No, Senator. Again, I'm Singaporean!"
been saying this for years, long before @monzo's commercial milestones: it's been an absolute privilege to be a witness to and tiny part of the @monzo story co-founded by @t_blom. all of us @passioncapital feel so fortunate to have been partners to both @GoCardless & Monzo Bank🙏
Before I was 30 years old, I’d started 2 companies that are each now worth over a billion dollars. And it almost broke me.
Here’s my story.
youtu.be/QKPgBAnbc10
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How I watched Elon Musk hoodwink the world at Auschwitz... My piece in @indypremium on #HolocaustMemorialDay
independent.co.uk/world/elon…
“having a baby this way is magical. It’s utterly miraculous and no less an experience of wonder & privilege than more traditional ways. Any sadness I had about not passing on my genes was washed away when I held my daughter... She is the most wonderful thing I’ve ever created.”
I had a baby at 46 via egg donation. Why is it a taboo subject?
thetimes.co.uk/article/494dc…
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Parcel delivery firm DPD have replaced their customer service chat with an AI robot thing. It’s utterly useless at answering any queries, and when asked, it happily produced a poem about how terrible they are as a company. It also swore at me. 😂
now hoping ITV does a drama series about the Windrush Scandal 🙏
I can't tell you how many times since @ComputerWeekly revealed #PostOfficeScandal in 2009 I've said, "Why isn't this leading BBC news?" Tonight on @BBCNews at 6 it finally did. Delighted for the victims - now UKgov: compensation, justice, accountability
computerweekly.com/feature/P…
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As attention turns to Fujitsu's role in the #PostOfficeScandal I've taken a look at the troubled history of the Horizon IT supplier and how it contributed to the perfect storm that enabled the scandal to happen:
computerweekly.com/news/3665…
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Bit tired of "ooh bad journalists didn't cover the Post Office scandal". It's been covered for years: there have been two Panoramas, coverage of the court cases going back years, Radio 4 has done a series, Private Eye has been all over it, Computer Weekly has been on it for years
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Post Office scandal - who knew what and when about bugs in the Horizon accounting system?
What we know so far, and the key evidence that backs it up 🧵👇
“The harder interviews are always those w/ppl who’re v smart, who’ve done their homework, are well-read. Mishal is 💯 in that category. She’s bloody good at her job.” — love this profile of the amazing national treasure and abs boss that is @MishalHusain 🦸🏻♀️theguardian.com/media/2024/j…
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And here is the online version of the original 2009 story in @ComputerWeekly that was featured in #MrBatesvsPostOffice - the first time the #PostOfficeScandal was revealed...
computerweekly.com/news/2240…
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If you want to find out more about Alan Bates - the hero of the #PostOfficeScandal drama on ITV, read our @ComputerWeekly interview with him from 2020:
#MrBatesvsPostOffice
computerweekly.com/feature/A…
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*THREAD*
The Post office was ordered to pay nearly £60 million in compensation to 555 victims
But astronomical legal costs meant that hundreds of sub-postmasters still remain out of pocket and a lot have died before receiving justice.
#PostOfficeScandal
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This thread is almost identical to an article written for the Daily Mail, posted online at 10pm on 5th January. This poster compiled this thread a day later and is passing the content off as their own without quoting sources.
dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
twitter.com/guyadams/statu…
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This is very relevant to this clip.
This study shows women are still emotionally available and supportive to their male spouses at home even when they are experiencing high stress at work. The same is not true for men.
hbr.org/2019/03/research-whe…
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we’ve heard this from dozens of women AND men, that's why we’re building @meeno_official 💚 – at San Francisco, CA
