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How to Talk to Investors and the Media with Alex Wood (Forbes Europe) and Simon Cook (Draper Esprit)

Apr 19, 2018, 5:00 – 8:00 PM

London

We invited Alex Wood, Forbes Europe Editor and Simon Cook, CEO at Draper Esprit (voted by Business Insider UK's Coolest Investor) to talk about entrepreneurship and the role of media in today's startup & scaleup world.

In-person event

About this event

We invited Alex Wood, Editor at Forbes Europe and Simon Cook, CEO at Draper Esprit PLC to talk about entrepreneurship and the role of media in today's startup & scaleup world.

You may know Alex as a journalist or as an entrepreneur, having built and exited The Memo to Forbes not so long ago. Alex is regularly seen on BBC, Sky, CNN or CNBC. He was writing for The Guardian, The Telegraph and was previously a TV producer at Bloomberg and data journalist at the BBC World Service.

Simon has been involved with a number of Europe’s most successful startups including Lovefilm (Amazon), Cambridge Silicon Radio (IPO), Virata (IPO), nCipher (IPO) and KVS (Symantec). Another smart move Draper Esprit did was to buy Seedcamp's first two funds.

If you would like to learn more about the media and VC world's, if you wonder how to get media coverage for your company and how to best present your story, join us on Thursday and learn from the unique perspective of Alex and Simon and learn useful principles when pitching to or talking to the media. 

Check out what happened

Speakers

  • Alex Wood

    Forbes

    Europe Editor

  • Simon Cook

    Draper Esprit

    CEO

When

When

Thursday, April 19, 2018
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM UTC

Where

Where

Wework Moorgate
1 Fore Street
London, EC2Y 5EJ

Agenda

5:00 PMWelcome drink & nibbles
5:30 PMFireside Chat
6:15 PMQ & A
6:30 PMNetworking, drinks
8:00 PMFinish

Organizers

  • Prem Sangeet Petar Savic

    Supreme Factory

    London Director

  • James Lethem

    Nascence

    Co-Director

  • Dec McLaughlin

    Startup Grind Scotland

    COO

  • Roux Reabow

    BananaSZN

    Ambassador

  • Patrycja Maksymowicz

    Open Solutions Global

    Founder/ MD

  • Weronika Adkonis

    Marketing Manager

  • Sam Adekunle

    Grone Collective

    Head of Special Projects & Initiatives

Presenting

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Lewis Silkin

Partner

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WeWork

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