The world over, founders are always rather exceptional people. After all, the word entrepreneur comes from the combination of two Latin words: entre (to swim out), and prendes (to grasp, understand or capture). Governments, by contrast, are big, slow…
Tuning in to the Spotify story, Tosin Agbabiaka, an early stage investor at Octopus Ventures, lines up the Who, What, Where and When of US expansion for European companies.
Expats from big corporations land in a new city and straight into the bosom of the company and the country club. But founders and startup migrants today face a different set of challenges.