I’m CEO of School of Everything, a startup I co-founded with four friends that connects people with something to teach with people who want to learn. We’re funded by a group of amazing angel investors as well as the Young Foundation and Channel 4. Boing Boing call us the ‘eBay of knowledge’ and we have a great team developing the site based in our office in Bethnal Green.
I’m also co-founder of Social Innovation Camp which brings together ideas, people and technology to create new social start-ups. We run two weekends a year where people come together to build them. Anna and Katee really run the show but I get to help out every now and then.
Before I got into starting up organisations I was a policy wonk and writer. I’ve written on all kinds of different issues but the main themes are innovation, new forms of organisation and environmental sustainability. I used to work at the think tank Demos and before that was at Forum for the Future.
I grew up in Birmingham and went to university in Nottingham and now live in Bethnal Green in the east end of London.