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We don't celebrate our winners enough in Europe, says @Ronanchamberss co-founder and co-host of @etnshow The region suffers from tall poppy syndrome and it’s hurting founders. etn.’s approach is different: highlight the people shaping the ecosystem and celebrate what they’re building. Watch the full episode now and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

The latest Basis Points episode is live. This time, @harrietsgreen is joined by @etnshow co-founder @Ronanchamberss , to talk about what’s changing in media, brand building, and the European tech ecosystem. He shares why data sovereignty, direct-to-consumer storytelling, and unpolished media are important right now, and why Europe’s culture around entrepreneurship needs to shift. 👀 Watch the full episode now and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

💪 @bookprotectors didn’t start in a boardroom. It started in a gym. By picking up combat sports, @nicksarathhh met active-duty law enforcement officers doing private security work on the side. The demand was clearly there, it just needed a better system – one that made security easier to access and simpler for contractors to find work. Sometimes the best ideas come from seeing broken systems up close. 🎧Listen to the full interview, out now.

Powerful systems are shaping behaviour faster than society can respond from short-form video engineered for addiction to unregulated digital gambling dressed up as “markets”. What links them isn’t geography or product category. It’s incentives. When platforms are optimised solely for engagement and growth, with little accountability to the people they serve, the downstream effects land hardest on the most vulnerable. This isn’t anti-technology. It’s a call to be honest about how it’s designed, who it serves, and what responsibility looks like when systems operate at massive scale. Watch the full conversation with @antifraudco 's @hajsharda now to find out more about what happens when growth outruns accountability.

In response to systems that feel broken, people often vote for more state – even when state intervention is part of what’s making life harder. Rather than experiencing relief when there’s high government control, the opposite often happens: higher barriers to entry, fewer ladders to climb and less room for upward mobility. This was especially notable in Harriet's recent trip to the States, where she sat down with Sahaj Sharda, CEO and co-founder of The Antifraud Company, where we talked power, policy, the unintended consequences of well-intentioned intervention and why it matters for anyone trying to get ahead. 👀 Watch the full episode now.

For @hajsharda , the US college bribery scandals crystallised something much bigger: the widening gap between the moral codes of the upper classes and everyone else, and how that gap fuels polarisation. America’s founding myth is one of equal opportunity, but when elite institutions quietly bend the rules for those with money and power, that myth erodes and is replaced by fatalism. The belief that the system is rigged. That effort doesn’t matter. With @antifraudco , Sahaj’s goal is to challenge conduct that pushes society further away from fairness, accountability and trust, and to prove that the rules still matter. Watch the full conversation now, covering fraud, inequality and what kind of country the States chooses to be.

Information has never been cheaper, but University has never been more expensive. Abraham Lincoln taught himself law by borrowing books and studying in a barn. Today, we have YouTube, Google, ChatGPT – the most powerful learning tools ever created, and yet, tuition fees have only gone up and to the right. If universities exist primarily to disseminate information, the math no longer adds up. The cost of information has collapsed, but the price of access hasn’t. So what are universities actually selling? For more views from @hajsharda, CEO and co-founder of @antifraudco, on education, the polymarket, building a company and the state of the US, watch the full episode now.

2025 was the year we started investing where the state is failing. Across all of our interviews, events, podcast conversations and conferences, the calibre of talent in the UK has shone through. We have the talent to build the future we want – now we just need to go and build. 2025 was just the beginning.

The biggest bottleneck to human progress isn’t talent, money, or ideas – it’s energy. Without clean, stable, affordable power, you can’t scale food production, housing, manufacturing, or even the advanced fuels that will power the next century. But if energy becomes abundant? Everything else unlocks. The problems that feel impossible today suddenly become solvable. Energy is the foundation for the future we want. ⚡ Out now, our conversation with @northroadben

Energy underpins everything – our economy, our climate path, our future as a species. This week, @harrietsgreen sits down with @northroadben , CEO of Applied Atomics and former @SpaceX lead engineer, whose mission is bold: deploy small nuclear reactors as the backbone of the world’s clean energy system. In this episode, he explains why small reactors aren’t just viable, but essential, and why the future of energy will determine everything else we care about. 🚀 Don’t miss out, full conversation drops tomorrow.

Most people’s intro to the financial world isn’t investing – it’s debt. Their first major decision as an adult is taking on a university loan without being taught how debt or interest actually work. If we want people to make better long-term choices, we need to teach the mechanics of money early on – that’s part of what @clovefi is setting out to do. 🎧 Full interview out now.

We have all this health data on our wrists … but almost none of it flows into our healthcare system. Can the NHS app become something people actually use every day? Can wearables plug straight into your medical record? The next decade of healthcare depends on answering those questions. 🚀 Watch the full conversation with @juliantitz_ , CEO of Asterix Health.

Who do young people really look up to? For most 14 year-olds, the role models are footballers, YouTubers, influencers – often not the people quietly building companies that create jobs, products, and opportunity. Basis Points is all about showcasing these silent builders and how what they’re doing is vital to the future. If we want more young people to build, innovate and take risks, we need to celebrate the people actually doing it. 👀 Watch the full episode now.

Imagine knowing at 12 what you want to spend the rest of your life doing. @christianbowens did. He found entrepreneurship early and everything outside of that felt like a distraction. When you find the thing that makes you come alive, it rewires how you see everything else. 🎙️Catch up on the full interview now.

“What’s the worst thing that could happen?” That mantra shaped @christianbowens ’s entire approach to building companies – and life. Because even when something doesn’t work, you walk away smarter and better equipped for the next bet. Fear of failure kills more ideas than failure ever will. Stop hedging. Start building. 🎧 Full interview out now.