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Harry Briggs

How to prepare for the AI future

This is NOT for techies — it’s for normal people nervous about what AI means for them, wondering how to prepare for the huge changes ahead.

11 min readJun 28, 2023

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How to prepare for the AI future

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OMERS Ventures

Redefining a category: our investment in Lick

I spent most of my 20s as a co-founder of a startup drinks brand, Firefly. We hoped the time was right (in 2003) for a new “category” of…

7 min readJun 6, 2021

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Touching Surgery

In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves…

2 min readFeb 14, 2020

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Touching Surgery

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Harry Briggs

VC Reading List…

We’re just building our OMERS Ventures team, and hiring some people who are new to VC. So I put together a quick list of Blogs…

3 min readApr 25, 2019

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European VC: 9½ years in…

I was lucky enough to get my first VC job in September 2009.

8 min readMar 25, 2019

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Predictions on the internet, 20 years ago…

Scarily, it’s nearly 20 years since I started my first full-time job (at McKinsey). To check the actual date (8th March 1999 as it turns…

2 min readFeb 17, 2019

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Predictions on the internet, 20 years ago…

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Harry Briggs

A contrarian view on Brexit

[a version of this piece appeared in the Sunday Telegraph on 19th February 2017. For context, worth first reading the pro-Remain piece I…

4 min readFeb 20, 2017

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From the Firefly archive — September 2008…

I recently used the Medium “import tool” to resurface a few old blogs from my Firefly Tonics days (sadly some of the pictures were lost in…

3 min readApr 11, 2016

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From the Firefly archive — September 2008…

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Farewell Balderton

Six years ago I was sitting reading the papers in the May sunshine in Buckinghamshire. I’d just left my startup, Firefly Tonics, and was…

13 min readMay 29, 2015

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Harry Briggs

Harry Briggs

Venture Capital Investor (@OMERSVentures, prev @Balderton). Entrepreneur (@fireflytonics). Psychologist. Pianist. Pondering how technology will alter humanity.

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