Jonno Evans

James Wise Verified account @Jameswise · Jul 25, 2024

Great speaking to @jonno_evans for the latest episode of What’s Next. He has gone from advising two Prime Ministers to becoming a deep tech investor.

We discuss:

- navigating the policy landscape as a deep tech founder
- why we should have an AI success department in Government
- what he looks for in deep tech founders

And lots more, see the YouTube link below or check it out on all the usual platforms.

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Andrew Bennett Verified account @andrewjb_ · 5d

thank you to @KanishkaNarayan for joining the London launch of @ukdynamism, to the team who made it an incredible night, and to the believers and builders that joined us

this land has a long history. with the work of many people in this room and way beyond it, it will have a long future

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OpenAI Verified account @OpenAI · Nov 3

ChatGPT and Codex are helping engineers build for the physical world.

We’re sharing our progress across mechanical design, electrical engineering, and simulation—from helping our hardware teams iterate faster to testing new workflows with industry collaborators.

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Patrick Collison Verified account @patrickc · Jul 14

It's been interesting and puzzling to witness the problems with accuracy in UK economic statistics over the past few years. (See the links in the next tweet for more.) It seems that the Office for National Statistics, ONS, now struggles to effectively measure basic figures such as employment, trade, and inflation. This resulted in a quite scathing government report published last summer, where Robert Devereux, a former permanent secretary, concluded that "most of the well-publicised problems with core economic statistics are the consequence of ONS’s own performance."

There's a lot of discussion about the travails facing the UK these days (including this big piece in The Atlantic a few weeks ago[1]), and the problems with the ONS feel like an unsettling microcosm of diffuse decline in broader institutional competence.

Anyhow: at Stripe, we became curious about the UK's published entrepreneurship data. While we observe a boom in many parts of the world, official figures don't show a similar increase in the UK. In the latest Stripe Economics post, we dug into the data, and, as far as we can tell, the official figures are probably misleading. The good and the bad news (mostly good, I think!) is that the UK is almost certainly witnessing an unmeasured boom in entrepreneurship: stripeeconomics.com/p/is-the-uk-mi…

UK-specific issues aside, I suspect that this measurement question is illustrative of forthcoming econometric challenges. Keeping the world's macro indicators up-to-date in response to the faster-than-usual changes wrought by AI will be both increasingly difficult and increasingly important in the coming years.

[1] theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

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