The loneliness of the tech founder – UKTN
A decade ago, I quit my job at Goldman Sachs to become a tech founder. A group of my colleagues and friends spent a weekend together in Munich to discuss the seeds of an idea about making investment more accessible and transparent. The next week, we all handed in our notices and decided to make Scalable Capital a reality.
Now, Scalable Capital is a unicorn that employs more than 600 people and has raised investment from some of the biggest VCs in the world.
I stayed at Scalable for seven years before becoming a VC investor myself. When I look back at those seven years, they were incredibly exciting and rewarding, but they demanded hard work, sacrifices and were often very lonely. …
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