Iain Martin

1 week ago | forbes.com | Iain Martin

Nearly two years ago venture capital’s biggest global brand Sequoia Capital split up with its China and India funds. Now, its former India and Southeast Asia arm, rebranded as Peak XV, is back home in Silicon Valley. The $9 billion venture fund has hired partner Arnav Sahu to head up investment from a new San Francisco-based team.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Iain Martin

15 hours agoVideo captured by the White House shows Donald Trump bragging that friend and investor Charles Schwab made two billion dollars from the current stock market chaos. In a video posted to X Wednesday (9 April), the president introduced NASCAR drivers to the founder and chairman of Charles Schwab Corporation, a multinational financial services company. “It’s not just a company, it’s actually an individual,” Trump told the racing drivers.

2 weeks ago | listennotes.com | Steve Richards |Miranda Green |Tim Montgomerie |Iain Martin

Inspired by the UK’s most famous voter, Brenda from Bristol, four close watchers of politics agree - and freely disagree - about the twists and turns of the General Election 2024 - and beyond. With Steve Richards, broadcaster and author, Tim Montgomerie, founder of Conservative Home and a serial political entrepreneur, Iain Martin, Times columnist and Miranda Green of the Financial Times. We hope you agree with us, rather than with Brenda, that it’s a useful addition to the debate.

3 weeks ago | welove2ski.com | Iain Martin

In the latest of this series of interviews by Iain Martin, presenter of The Ski Podcast, he spoke to BBC Ski Sunday presenter Ed Leigh. Ed Leigh first commentated for the BBC at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, where he covered snowboarding. His unique style of commentary in a relatively new Olympic sport attracted attention, and later that year he joined Graham Bell as co-presenter of the BBC’s Ski Sunday, the UK’s premier snowsports programme, becoming the show’s first snowboarding presenter.

3 weeks ago | matterhornchalets.com | Iain Martin

Zermatt is always working hard to improve their facilities and service and the resort has today announced its latest project to improve mountain safety. Mountain Rescue Sheep“We first observed sheep gathering around an injured hiker on their own and so we came up with the idea of mountain rescue sheep,” said Gerold Biner from Air Zermatt. The big advantages of using the sheep for mountain rescue is that they are sure-footed and know exactly which route to take around the mountain.