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# Christ, what a website
What a group of people.

Cristiana Camisotti - Co-founder, Silicon Milkroundabout

Rohan Silva - Entrepreneur in Residence, Index Ventures.

Suli Breaks - Poet
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:20, archived)
#
"Entrepreneur in Residence"

Does that mean someone whose business keep failing and who sits on their sofa all day eating Pot Noodles?
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:31, archived)
# I think it's a euphamism
for 'chief tosser'.
(I helped save b3ta! Cassius Kray floats like a butterfly, stings like a trout, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:40, archived)
# Must have watched the video with Lottie Dexter too
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:41, archived)
# Yes
With the addition that those pot noodles are more like fine brandy and kobe beef.
(I helped save b3ta! Tahkcalb ω∞ for sigs, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:41, archived)
# I once knew a guy who described himself as a "serial entrepreneur"
He leeched off his wealthy parents and wealthy brothers and was filled with a breathtaking sense of his own brilliance at running three failed companies (one of which was investigated for fraud).

This guy was a total cock. Also: used to be one of the admins for a very well-known, dodgy website whose name I probably shouldn't mention.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:48, archived)
# b3ta.com?
(I helped save b3ta! arrangedletters, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 23:05, archived)
# i wish
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 23:07, archived)
# .
"In the UK we are already blessed with some amazing organisations, big & small who have been working to help make coding exciting & accessible across the country."

... but we're not going to give any of them funding, we're instead going to waste it all on PR and business people who have seen a way to leech money off the whole sorry project.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:42, archived)
# Leech is too kind a word.
edit: fuck
"Lottie was formerly Communications Manager at the influential think tank founded by Iain Duncan Smith MP, The Centre for Social Justice."
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:46, archived)
# Oh. I think I've gone off her
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:54, archived)
# I think the main thing they seem confused about is
the difference between code and a program.

The site says you have to code in order to design clothes.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 6 Feb 2014, 22:35, archived)