Observer Article
I was interviewed by David Smith of The Observer about Brits abroad doing the entrepreneur thing in Silicon Valley. I was quoted a few times in his article The New Revolutionaries. He asked where I was from. To which I replied ‘international man of mystery’. He jotted down ‘Yorkshireman’. Oh well.
If you like the idea of going to a coffee shop and everyone works in software and in the conversation next to you someone is starting a company, this is the place to be,’ said John Merrells, 37, who emigrated from Harrogate in North Yorkshire and runs a mobile phone software company here. ‘Everyone you bump into is potentially something. The physical concentration of people is phenomenal. Like in the City of London, the continual rubbing up of people is how ideas come about.
