Fuckup Nights London #9
Calling everyone interested in the edtech space - whether you’re a founder, educator, operator, or simply curious to hear from people building in this space!
👋 Meet your host & speakers
Hosted by Saul Truman, a third-time founder who lost $2M in under a year building the next Reddit.
Two fireside chats with incredible speakers (combined following of 150K+):
🎤 James Weatherill is the CEO & co-founder of Arbor Education, a Management Information System transforming how 12,000 schools across the UK work. He has scaled Arbor to ~600 people and ~£100m ARR, including a recent investment by Permira.
🎤 Pavan Konanur was the co-founder and CEO of Hoja, an EdTech startup that built an AI-powered study companion for high school students, growing to over 100,000 downloads. He is an entrepreneur, educator and senior commercial leader with 20+ years of experience across Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Amazon, and fractional C-suite roles at some of Europe’s fastest-growing startups.
🔥 Who are we?
Fuckup Nights London is the UK’s largest failure-first community, where founders and professionals get together to share their biggest mistakes.
We create a no judgement space, where you can be open and reflective, without the pressure of traditional networking.
Our mission is to get you the lesson without the scar :)
We’ve hosted 8 sold-out events so far, each with 500–1000 registrations, and now we’re bringing you our 9th event on 8th July, in partnership with Brighteye.
🤝 Our event partner: Brighteye
Brighteye invest early in European technology companies expanding the HumanOS: systems that help people learn, work, and adapt continuously. They work closely with Founders to turn insight into product, and momentum into real growth.
💖 What we need from you:
Audience recording isn’t permitted so speakers can share openly. If you aren’t able to attend, fear not - the fireside chats will be recorded and shared on our socials afterwards with the speakers’ consent.