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00:00GOOD TO SEE YOU. IT IS 10 YEARS OLD -- A BIG EVENT. HOW DO YOU LOOK BACK ON THE LAST 10 YEARS? JOHNNY: WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE A RINGSIDE SEAT ON EXTRAORDINARY STORIES TO EMERGE FROM THE GREAT STARTUPS, IT INCREASINGLY, WE FEEL A LOT COMING OUT OF EUROPE. MY COFOUNDER AND PARTNER IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN. IT IS A REMINDER THAT LONDON IS AN IMPORTANT GATEWAY TO THE REST OF EUROPE, PARTICULARLY WITH RELATIONSHIPS INFORMED -- VERY IMPORTANT. WE CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE INVESTORS TO GET GOING, TO BUILD A DISRUPTIVE BUSINESSES, TO FOSTER GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH CORPORATES. ANNA: WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LONDON AND THE REST OF EUROPE FROM A TECH PERSPECTIVE? JONNIE: I THINK WE ARE GATEWAY. WE ARE AN IMPORTANT MARKET, A CULTURAL CENTER. WE HAVE AN ENORMOUS NUMBER OF ENTREPRENEURS BUILDING BUSINESSES IN LONDON, AND LONDON IS A GATEWAY, A VERY IMPORTANT ONE. I THINK OUR RELATIONSHIP IS NOT STRICTLY POLITICAL. WE ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BE AS INTERNATIONAL AND MULTICULTURAL AS POSSIBLE, AND THEREFORE LONDON IS A GREAT PLACE TO BUILD A BUSINESS. SAKER: YOU MENTIONED YOU HAVE CORPORATES GETTING INVOLVED -- HAVE YOU SEEN A SHIFT? ARE THEY BORE IN THE MAINSTREAM? JONNIE: ONE OF THE TRENDS WE HAVE SEEN OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE TRIED TO ENCOURAGE -- WE JUST LAUNCHED A REPORT YESTERDAY ON HOW TO ENCOURAGE THAT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATES AND STARTUPS, EMBRACING DISRUPTION BETTER. IT IS AN ECOSYSTEM WHERE BOTH PARTIES NEED EACH OTHER. CERTAINLY THE FOUNDERS FORUM -- THERE IS AN ECOSYSTEM. IT IS ALL ABOUT HOW STARTUPS CAN WORK WITH CORPORATES TO SEE THIS DISRUPTION INNOVATION CAN BUILD GREAT PROJECTS. YES, THERE ARE STARTUPS WHO GO ON AND REMAIN INDEPENDENT FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES, BUT IN MOST CASES, THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORPORATES IS CRITICAL. SAKER: DO YOU STILL THINK THAT EUROPE AND PARTICULARLY THE U.K. -- HAVE THEY LOST THEIR EDGE IN TERMS OF TECHNOLOGY? JONNIE: I DON'T THINK THE U.S. HAS LOST THEIR EDGE AT ALL, AND THE WEST REMAINS A HUB AND EPICENTER FOR THE EMERGENCE OF SOME OF THE GREATEST TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES IN THE WORLD. THERE ARE THREE TIMES AS MANY BILLION-DOLLAR TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES THAT HAVE COME OUT OF THE STATES AS THERE HAVE BEEN OUT OF EUROPE OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS. INTERESTINGLY, THERE HAVE BEEN NINE TIMES AS MANY IPOS -- A LOT OF IT IS COMING FROM AMERICA. WE HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THAT NOW SHIFT TOWARD EUROPE. TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, ONE OF THE REASONS WE HAVE SEEN THAT SHIFT IS BECAUSE A LOT OF THE HARD CORE TECHNOLOGIES ARE BEING COMMODITIZED, AND INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANY. WHETHER IT IS A CREATIVE INDUSTRY OR OTHER SECTOR, EUROPE HAS A LOT OF SKILLS THAT HELP START UP NEW BUSINESSES. ANNA: WHAT IS EXCITING ABOUT THE START UP BUSINESSES YOU ARE LOOKING AT? IS IT ALL ABOUT SY NTEC FOR YOU RIGHT NOW? JONNI I THINKE: SYNTEC IS FASCINATING AND IT IS A WORLD RIGHT FOR DISRUPTION AND CHANGE. DISRUPTION IS COMING FROM WITHIN AND WITHOUT. IT IS A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF AN INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEUR BUILDING A DISRUPTED ASSET MANAGEMENT BUSINESS, AND I AM SURE HE WILL HAVE A BIG IMPACT. THERE ARE LOTS OF EXAMPLES OF OTHER COMPANIES EMERGING. WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT LONDON IS ITS OTHER SECTORS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, WHICH LONDON AND THE U.K. ARE KNOWN FOR, SEEING HUGE IMPACTS ACROSS TV, FILM, DISRUPTED -- EMBRACING DIGITAL. WE ARE SEEING REALLY INTERESTING BUSINESSES GROWING. IT IS THAT MARRYING OF DIFFERENT SECTOR SKILL SETS WHICH WE FIND ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING THINGS. DIGITAL DISRUPTION PERMEATES A

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