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David Rowan

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Non Bullshit Innovation (Penguin). WIRED UK founding editor. Investor Grammarly Improbable Cerebral Kitopi. Community at https://t.co/9jj3LMlfuN. david(at)https://t.co/tCqngABba3

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David Rowan@iRowan·
Today Penguin publishes my book Non-Bullshit Innovation: Radical Ideas from the World’s Smartest Minds. It took me to 20 countries from Peru to China to find the real thing. Because there's too much "innovation theatre" out there. Seems it's 30% off today amzn.to/2Ozam9b
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David Rowan@iRowan·
@auren Totally. Festivals > conferences (our health-tech festival 💊THEFIX.io has a DJ set from a former UK Minister of Health, a longevity strand involving a mobile sauna, and hands-on demos of surgical robots)
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Auren Hoffman
Auren Hoffman@auren·
the chance that a conference is good if most of the content is speakers: zero
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David Rowan@iRowan·
Our stretch goal for THEHEAT.io, the first VOYAGERS climate-tech festival next Friday, was 300 people. Today we're at 550 amazing founders, investors, writers, scientists + more coming to Harwell Campus near Oxford. So we added a few final tickets. Join us.
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Laura Turner
Laura Turner@LauraTurner_PR·
Thanks @iRowan for your participation in the Randstad webinar on AI this morning. Very useful and thought-provoking.
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David Rowan@iRowan·
Authors gotta hustle, even if that means getting the Prime Minister of Moldova unwittingly to endorse your book… Thanks Moldova Digital Summit team
Dorin Recean@DorinRecean

Moldova Digital Summit started today. Digitalization is ongoing & we’re ready to enhance technology further to make things easier, faster & more accessible for everyone. @GuvernulRMD’s priority is to automate processes & make them more efficient for our citizens and businesses.

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I’m moderating a big climate-tech event today in a giant tent in a forest south of Tel Aviv, where the goal is to be “carbon balanced” and re-use/offset everything. Other event organisers, please take note.
Startup Nation Central@sncentral_

Big events are notoriously unsustainable, but that’s changing now thanks to Israeli innovation. Propelled by innovators from across the country, the Climate Solutions Festival is “raising the bar for sustainable event production.” Click here to learn how 👉okt.to/BYF8p5

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David Rowan@iRowan·
@neerajarora Neeraj, I hung out with you, Jan and Brian in December 2013 to write the @WIRED cover story that was WhatsApp’s first big media outing, and even then Jan and Brian questioned aloud the ethics of such an acquisition. You knew. Stop playing the wounded naïf. wired.co.uk/article/how-wh…
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neeraj arora@neerajarora·
In 2014, I was the Chief Business Officer of WhatsApp. And I helped negotiate the $22 billion sale to Facebook. Today, I regret it. Here’s where things went wrong:
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RH Books@Rovingheights·
In #NonBullshitInnovation, @irowan tells a story of transformation: how an organisation has found a new way of doing things through innovation driven by ruthless entrepreneurial imagination. NGN 7000
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David Rowan@iRowan·
The Guardian knows how to write headlines
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David Rowan@iRowan·
@MStothard @Siftedeu @firstminutecap It’s just like journalism except you get an extra three or four years before you have to fess up to your mistakes… Welcome to the transition, Michael!
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Michael Stothard
Michael Stothard@MStothard·
Some personal news! After three years as the founding editor of @Siftedeu, and nearly a decade before that at the FT, I am starting a new adventure in the world of VC, joining the investment team at @firstminutecap.
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David Rowan@iRowan·
@jmj @semil Sending an update today for our VOYAGERS Climate-Tech Fund that includes invitations to weekend retreats and our Zoom book club (as well as 6 kickass new investments). We started with the peer-support community - the fund evolved out of that, to enable founders to back each other
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Jeff Morris Jr.
Jeff Morris Jr.@jmj·
@semil We love the accountability of sending regular updates & creating a more frequent cadence with investors. Think this is more the future - where community matters for companies and funds alike, especially as you construct your investor base with that strategy.
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Semil@semil·
As a company or fund becomes more successful, their "investor updates" become shorter and less frequent over time.
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David Rowan@iRowan·
Only time I’ve been ahead of a fashion trend
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Alina Ivan
Alina Ivan@AlinaIvan_·
@iRowan's new book was hard to put down until I finished it. Some useful very useful insights in here, thank you for introducing me to it @apburden! Recommend 👍
Dr Adrian Burden@apburden

When I founded the @festivalofinnov ten years ago, it was in my mind to be implicitly about #innovation without the BS. Then @iRowan wrote the book! So I'm delighted our worlds will collide at last this year when he'll join us in #Malvern on Thur 7th Oct - festival-innovation.com/programme/show…

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David Rowan@iRowan·
Worrying new symptom leading BBC News right now - the woman on the left grew an EXTRA ARM with no hand attached. And how heartless of her friends to mock her… #PhotoshopDisaster
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