Pete Hopton 👨‍🎤’s Post

You know you're doing something right, when you're under attack by some of the region's "proper nasties" 🤣 Bring on 2025! Nobody said this would be easy, let's push on and empower our region's value creators. Who is going to have a massive 2025? TUBR, Future Greens, Gold Standard Phantoms, Evolutor? I hope they all do, they're up to some amazing things. 🚀 ⭐ When our companies and value creators get undervalued, there are two factors that are obvious: 1) The lack of competition on funding, less specialist leadership in setting value for specialist tech businesses, impacting long term trajectory. 2) People talking it down, whose motives will be unclear, but their tones obvious to the trained eye. Why should Sheffield tech be undermined in such a way? To properly empower South Yorkshire's value creators, these are the two cultural factors we need to change: 1) We need to break through/swamp out the negativity and let our founders know that we believe in them! Help them overcome their self doubt and raise their ambition. 2) We need to bring in more competition for funding🫰 💰 💴 💵 💶 💷 Our region has all the substance, and no hype, we need to support our region's startups in getting out there and shouting loudly! #Startups #Sheffield #VC