Founder of strategic comms firm @ohearco, SVP of Strategy @tryzapp, startup angel. 10+ years as journalist @TechCrunch. Born with bad genes but a good heart™
London, England
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I guess the news is out :)
Goodbye, journalism. Hello, @tryzapp.
Thank you @i_woodford - you worked really hard on this and it shows.
Of all the pieces I've written, this has to be one of the most memorable. @sohear is a brilliant colleague (he'd hate if I said "friend"), and his decision to leave journalism will be felt across the industry. We'll miss ya, Steve! (sorta)
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In celebration of Steve O'Hear, his family & friends are supporting @WhizzKidz and their work with young wheelchair users. If you'd like to contribute, please donate here: shorturl.at/jLaYH
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Steve O'Hear retweeted
Hello to my Network! After a few months, I'm still looking for a full-time role. I have been fortunate enough to pick up regular freelance shifts and a few writing commissions, but ideally, I'd like to move back on staff sooner rather than later. (1/3)
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In high school we had an expression for this. “No shit, Sherlock” bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd98…
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Austerity 2.0 is not the answer—it will lead to another decade of stagnation.
The household budget analogy of "balancing the books" must be scrapped.
Invest in growth!
Tories left a hole. It will only get bigger without a reversal in the logic limiting public investment. Low investment, low growth. I signed a letter @FT with Jim O’Neil @Gus_ODonnell @jdportes @susanamynewman @sjwrenlewis @elerianm ft.com/content/a8fcf263-8506…
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Hey all, @TechCrunch is hiring an enterprise tech reporter. You'd work on the fantastic @fredericl's team. We're a fully remote workplace, Bay Area preferred but not mandatory for this one: ouryahoo.wd5.myworkdayjobs.c…
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Steve O'Hear retweeted
🚨Little scoop here: an investing app backed by Peter Thiel has shut down in UK despite its $40m raise just 2 years ago uktech.news/news/investment-…
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Hi @thetimes. One of your columnists, Matthew Parris, writes that PIP is for people “medically unfit to work.” This isn’t remotely true. PIP is a non-means tested benefit to pay for the extra costs of disability. Will your editors correct it? Thanks.
thetimes.com/comment/columni…
ALT PIP: the substantially enhanced welfare benefit for people medically unfit for work)
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And to think, some U.S. VCs call access to healthcare socialism!
When I was a kid growing up in Sweden, my mom would make pancakes a lot. I loved it!
Only later I realised it was because sometimes that was all my Polish immigrant parents could afford.
But despite not having any money, I always had access to healthcare, we had a home PC, and I could attend the best schools.
These policies are a big reason Sweden now has more unicorns per capita than any other country except Estonia.
So it was great to speak to @PatcohenNYT for this article and really cool to see so many other Swedish entrepreneurs mentioning the same policies.
nytimes.com/2024/08/13/busin…
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Steve O'Hear retweeted
The IT outage does not appear to have affected the PR industry, who have sent me about 500 different hot takes about CrowdStrike today.
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I was among the CNN reporters laid off today as part of the company’s restructuring. I loved CNN and I’m so proud of the work we did. If you’re looking for a tech reporter to cover AI, social media, trends, Big Tech, gadgets, tech anything, please send a message! I’d love to chat
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Steve O'Hear retweeted
Late to this conversation, but a quick thought...
When a young PR pro hounds a reporter, it's likely because they are being hounded by a bad manager or client. It takes years of experience to feel comfortable pushing back on a pitch angle that you know won't work, or to say that sending another follow-up is just spammy.
Publicly shaming folks in this position can be helpful as a PSA but it's also obviously mean.
It's kinder to share direct feedback with young PR pros and arm them with the knowledge they need to push back on shitty practices.
Of course none of this applies to someone who has been around and should know better, or to anyone who truly does something unethical.
Journalists who bad mouth PRs on Twitter suck.
It's like people who are rude to waiters, you are leveraging a professional power imbalance.
Literally, if the best thing you can Tweet is "omg PR fail they sent me silly email" maybe you need to learn to get more hot takes.
Their livelihoods often depend on being nice to you.
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There was shortage of talk about France becoming the next AI "superpower" last week at VivaTech.
AI was everywhere. AI firm H raised $220m *seed*. Govt talked up France's prowess in AI.
The catch? It's not happening without some help from US Big Tech. cnb.cx/4c2XhOT
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Very sad for London media
Some sad media news from my former employer: London's nearly 200-year-old Evening Standard newspaper plans to abandon its daily print publication ad switch to a weekly edition, w/ @sabahmeddings bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via @technology
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Scoop. I broke the news that they were building this (before FB wanted to talk about it), and here I am breaking the news that it's shutting down (guess who didn't respond to a request for comment). Meta/FB, forever in an identity crisis. tip @Techmeme
Sources: Meta is shutting down Workplace, its enterprise communications business tcrn.ch/44IFc6b
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When you're a sub 250k rev consumer product and some investors are telling you to raise 20m and you're contemplating it...
You don't need a CFO. You need a shrink.
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Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a Tesla-like self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving, has closed $1.05 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group. This is the U.K.’s largest AI fundraise ever. techcrunch.com/2024/05/06/wa…
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