How Joanna Shields was charged with moving Silicon Valley to a London roundabout

The doyenne of London's tech scene, Joanna Shields carries the heavy burden of creating a British rival to Silicon Valley.

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'Hurricane Joanna' has a fearsome reputation for making shrewd deals

In 2010, David Cameron announced his ambition to put London alongside Silicon Valley and Bangalore as a world centre for digital innovation, says The Sunday Telegraph. Why, he asked rather plaintively, is there no British equivalent of Google?

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