What advice would you give somebody entering the UK ecosystem tomorrow?

The advice I would give to someone entering the UK ecosystem tomorrow is to bring your insight and your experience from other countries and help the UK to learn from that.

So I think coming from the US has given me a perspective about what perhaps we can learn from the States in terms of creating a really dynamic and ambitious economy and also some of the pitfalls that we can potentially avoid by creating stronger worker protections here.

So I think bring your experience, bring your insight from whatever ecosystem you're coming from and help to shape the policy discussion and the debate here.

what is the UK great at

Who have you met recently that's extraordinary? One

of the people I met recently was at an event at the LSE where they were announcing the ScaleUp concierge service.

And her name was Katie King, and she's the founder and CEO of a company called BioOrbit, which manufactures... drugs in space.

Do you perceive that there's a genuine ambition gap?

It's tricky.

I think when you sit with entrepreneurs and investors in the UK, you definitely don't feel like there's an ambition gap.

You feel like they're setting their sights very high.

They want to build globally relevant businesses and They understand what that takes, and they're not pulling out any stops.

I think what is different, though, is the attitude towards both success and failure, which is a key part of ambition.

So in the U.S., there's this kind of almost mythology of the American dream.

How do you see your work at this particular moment in time and what excites you the most about it?