Dear all,
I’m back from Meribel, in the French Alps, where I participated in Anthemis’s Hacking Finance Retreat. There were lots of barbecues, hours of hiking with my wife Laetitia, a memorable yoga session next to a beautiful lake, and obviously many workshops and discussions on topics related to financial services, which are the focus of Anthemis’s investment thesis. You can read more about this unique firm and its founders here: ‘Weirdo’ fintech VC Anthemis marches to its own drummer.
One of the workshops I attended was on embedding finance in education. There was a lot of talk about income share agreements (ISAs), as well as several mentions of Lynda Gratton’s The 100 Year Life and the importance of what she calls “transformational assets”: assets that are critical when you have to switch jobs and reinvent yourself many times throughout your entire life.
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