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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 ...

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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

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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

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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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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 S...

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