The tiny farming village of Llanfyllin, where I spent my childhood summers, has a population of about a thousand. Nestled in the remote Welsh hills, the Cain Valley is about as far removed from Silicon Valley as anywhere you could imagine. Our family home has no phone reception and no broadband access. So you can imagine my surprise when the venture capital firm I co-founded backed a Llanfyllin tech entrepreneur as part of the most competitive AI seed-funding round in British history. Surprise turned to astonishment when CuspAI’s chief executive, Dr Chad Edwards, told me that his classmate at Llanfyllin High School was the former Manchester United first-team coach Eric Ramsay, now the youngest manager in the history of

Source: The Times November 20, 2024 07:33 UTC