Opinion

September 24, 2021

Move over London, we want to work closer to home

Near is the next talent frontier.


Freddie Fforde

4 min read

The Patch founding team (left to right Freddie Fforde, Paloma Strelitz and Varun Vassanth)

They told us the world was flat. Globalisation was supposed to give everyone in the world a chance at economic opportunity. But in the case of tech, in particular, it was still concentrated in a few powerful hubs.

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