We wrote an article for leading UK newspaper City AM about Defence Capstones… how many tech entrepreneurs are focusing their time, energy, assets and skills onto defence companies. The US is world-leading and creating an innovation flywheel to support frontier tech companies and their founders to scale defence tech quickly. The UK needs to do the same.

We are in an age where people are willing to pay more for experiences. Whether that’s chartering a superyacht for the first time, committing to ownership of a megayacht for exploration or challenging themselves in the extreme environment of team or solo racing. The ultra-wealthy, who, despite having everything, are still looking for rarity, ie. being part of something unique and enthralling – such as being the first to explore and discover new unseen remote places.

Writing for the prestigious luxury lifestyle magazine Club Oenologique, Simon Pavitt outlines how tech entrepreneurs are bringing a Silicon Valley mindset to the world of fine wine. We consider the disruptive impact of tech on wine lovers and explain the benefits for those willing to embrace the digital evolution. Often seen as old-fashioned, fragmented and complex, it’s an industry that has been slow (even overtly resistant) to adopt mainstream technologies, let alone cutting-edge ones

Jane asked me to write about a new tool using cutting-edge technology called ChatGPT and its potential impact on wine, I was happy to help. …This is one of the first times that an AI tool of this type has become available to the mainstream, certainly one that is so easy to use and inevitably its adoption will be fast.

Every now and then we get hit by a wave of very clever people all saying something similar, often driven by progress in technology coupled with an increase in clarity on what that technology could make possible…