From a London podcast studio, Harry Stebbings has built a venture career on something VCs usually outsource: attention. The result is 20VC, a firm whose edge is less a secret sauce and more a system for turning conversation into conviction, and conviction into capital.
In the Issa brothers’ world, the petrol station is a retail platform. Fuel brings traffic; coffee and food-to-go bring margin. Their forecourt playbook scaled fast. The harder test is whether it still works when folded into a supermarket estate like Asda.
What distinguishes Fyxer is not velocity but discipline, a narrow product scope, a human-in-the-loop model, and an operating cadence shaped by years inside the workflows it now automates.
Steven Bartlett’s influence does not come from content alone. It comes from the way attention is packaged, monetised, and recycled into ventures, tools, and power.