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Empowering AI Startups | Co-Founder @ Yorkshire AI Labs | Democratising VC | MBE | Philanthropist & Tech Visionary Blog: http://www.djr.ai Newsletter: https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/the-sunday-signal-7319040914797031424

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The Sunday Signal: The Pitch, The Discipline, and The Deloitte Debacle Essential insights on money, founders and accountability Issue #26 โ€“ Sunday 12 October 2025

The Sunday Signal: The Pitch, The Discipline, and The Deloitte Debacle
newsletter.djr.ai/p/the-sunday...

12.10.2025 15:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Sunday Signal: Britain Invents, America Invests Essential insights on capital, cities, and the democratisation of startups Issue #23 โ€“ Sunday 21 September 2025

๐Ÿšจ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ. ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ.โฃ๐Ÿšจ

๐“๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐ž๐ž๐คโ€™๐ฌ ๐’๐ฎ๐ง๐๐š๐ฒ ๐’๐ข๐ ๐ง๐š๐ฅ ๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ:
๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ, ๐€๐ฆ๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ โ€” how pension fund managers are failing us all
๐ŸŒ‰ ๐’๐š๐ง ๐…๐ซ๐š๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฌ๐œ๐จโ€™๐ฌ ๐‘๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ
๐Ÿค– ๐–๐ก๐จ ๐’๐š๐ข๐ ๐’๐ญ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐š ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž? the AI toolkit that changes everything

open.substack.com/pub/davidjri...

21.09.2025 09:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sunderlandโ€™s promotion wasnโ€™t meant to happen. 15th in wage bill, no parachute cashโ€”just fearless football and belief. A glitch in the matrix. I unpack it in todayโ€™s Sunday Signal.
๐Ÿ”— lnkd.in/esttJkCj

25.05.2025 14:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€œ๐—•๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ ๐—ท๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต.โ€
โ€” Elon Musk, in a 2015 email on OpenAIโ€™s first day.

Still one of the clearest hiring philosophies: spot the spark early and bet on it hard.

I write about ideas like this in The Sunday Signal:
www.linkedin.com/build-relati...

20.05.2025 09:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I never met my great-grandparents Eli & Lily, or my grandmother.

But this week, AI brought them to life โ€” not as history, but as people.

Colourising old family photos didnโ€™t just enhance them. It changed everything.

๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Read: www.djr.ai/post/ai-memo...
๐Ÿ“ฌ Subscribe: www.linkedin.com/build-relati...

19.05.2025 10:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ปโ€™๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—บ๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—น๐˜†โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜† โ€” ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ.

This weekโ€™s Sunday Signal started with a colourised photo of a 19th-century train crashโ€ฆ and ended with me seeing my great-great-grandparents โ€” Eli and Lily Richards โ€” clearly for the first time.

djr.kit.com/posts/sunday...

18.05.2025 10:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Will we ever see this again (in my lifetime) #swfc

17.05.2025 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#NortherLights #Sheffield

19.11.2024 23:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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