Investing in products with community at their core; go to commonmagic.xyz to learn more & get in touch.

Operator Exchange is a group of angel investors who've founded or built fast-growing startups before.

Proudly part of Atomico's 2020, 2021 and 2022 angel program. 35+ angel investments so far.

Public goods are good

Built the first program for underrepresented founders housed in a European museum.

Investing and co-creating levers for a responsible technology industry. Products; Led creation of digestible, accessible tool for PMs and engineers, Ethical Explorer (ethicalexplorer.org); launched July 2020 and already in the hands of thousands of responsible techies globally; Responsible CS Challenge with Mozilla Foundation, Schmidt Futures and Craig Newmark Philanthropies backed by 25+ senior industry leadersInvestees include: TSPA, Mozilla Foundation, Tristan Harris' Center for Humane Tech, tech organisers Coworker.org, Doteveryone, the Zebras.

SheEO is a global initiative focused on building an innovative new model to finance, support and celebrate female entrepreneurs. The signature initiative, Radical Generosity, calls upon 1000 women per city to commit $1,100 to provide low interest loans to 10 women-led ventures that are selected by the 1000 women, the Activators. The ventures get loans and access to the women's networks, buying power and expertise to grow their businesses. This model will be in 1000 cities by 2020 loaning $1B annually to 10,000 women-led businesses.

Leading Google's East London seven-storey space for startups designed to democratise access into tech and power collective genius (scenius!) as part of the Google for Entrepreneurs team, providing top notch programming for high-potential founders, mentorship, working space and more. Startups we worked with created over 4,200+ jobs and raised £195M+ in the first five years of Campus. Chair of women@Google UK.

First non-US community hire at Google; built team from individual contributor to EMEA then globally (to 30M MAU); launched Zagat in Europe & Google+Local in EMEA. Built the muscle to find and engage communities of early adopters globally, from Tokyo to Austin to Paris; strategy, community-led growth, partnership, product feedback and more.

Built & lead global community team across eight countries. Qype was acquired by Yelp in 2011.

Words, community and strategy for many failed startups you never heard of.Words for, among others, the FT, the Guardian, The Times, Channel 4 Food, Conde Nast Traveller, Glamour and Company. Wrote/edited books for the Guardian, the V&A and more. Blogged for years at The Enchanted Hunters; the Guardian and Grazia liked it, so did Nokia and Cadburys, but now done.

Lead social strategy for Nokia.

Interviewing internationally successful pop stars with great hair about their great hair.