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The Next Few Years Will Lead to Great Innovation

Christian Hernandez Gallardo is a Salvadoran-born London-based angel investor. Up until last year, he was the Managing Partner and co-founder of VC firm White Star Capital, investing across North America and Western Europe. He previously led Facebook’s expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and prior to that, Christian was part of the early mobile efforts at Google and Microsoft.

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What does a “typical” day look like for you now?

7:30 Wake up (no commute so sleep in a bit longer)
8:00 Bring wife coffee, make kids breakfast
8:45 check that technical platforms for all the kids are working (they crashed earlier in the week)
9:00 PE with Joe Wicks with my youngest…
9:45–1pm: Zoom, zoom, zoom
1–2pm: Lunch with family, help kids out with some of their work
2–5pm: Work/zoom
5pm: take the dog for a walk, listen to a podcast
6pm: check-in with friends around the world, or talk to someone working on initiatives around Covid
>6pm: dinner, TV time with kids

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How has Coronavirus impacted your life/work?

The distinction between work and home is, of course, now massively blurred. Your video call gets interrupted by your who needs help with her homeschooling. Attention is blurred by a sequence of scheduled calls/videos and the unscheduled. Measuring “progress” at work also gets blurred. Things are moving at one of two speeds: much slower and kind of like in slow motion as organizations assess where things are going… and really, really fast as companies are in survival mode.

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What productivity tips have you found useful whilst working from home?

  • WhatsApp groups as slack channels (with friends across the world, extended family, colleagues).
  • Upgrading broadband to fibre a few weeks ago (otherwise not sure five concurrent streams would work for us all).
  • Bought a trampoline when we realised we might be at home with kids for an extended period… lifesaver.

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What five books would you recommend during self isolation?

  • The Uninhabitable Earth: life after warming by David Wallace-Wells. To get us thinking about the* Other* Global issue we should tackle when we emerge from this climate crisis.
  • Edison by Edmund Morris — a biography of Thomas Edison 
  • Coffeeland: A History by Augustine Sedgewick 
  • The Age of Living Machines by Susan Hockfield, former MIT President 
  • Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up by Jerry Colonna  

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When this is all over, what will the opportunities look like?

As an entrepreneur, fundraising has already changed but that might not be a bad thing. Investors are resetting to this new normal but all those I have spoken to agree that the next few years are likely to lead to great innovation.

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