Paul Murphy - Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners.

For over twenty years Lightspeed has been the first investor and an early backer of some of the most innovative companies in the world like: Stripe, Anthropic, Neko Health and Mistral among many others.

They invest in bold founders with big ideas, from Seed to Series F and beyond.

Prior to Lightspeed, Paul was an investor with Northzone, a product lead at Microsoft and a co-founder of the gaming studio Dots - best known for developing popular puzzle games like Dots and Two Dots, which achieved over 100 million downloads worldwide.

During this episode we discuss how Europe has woken up and it was never a problem of talent but one of confidence and mindset of dreaming big, we discuss about the differences of building at the plaform layer vs application layer and his learnings from Microsoft looking at the similarities with whats happening right now in the market.

At the end we end up by getting slightly philosophical and agree that for founders building nowadays: "The obstacle is the way”!