Let’s face it. No one expected 2020. It kind of went off-road didn’t it. But…the future is still unwritten. So while we stand at the cliff edge of this surreal year, we’re asking BACKED friends, futurists and provocateurs to share their wild predictions for the decade ahead. Let’s roll.

Angel investor | Investor @ Founders Factory | BACKED Community — 🧰 | My first ever job… News team at CNBC (it was an internship to be fair). Most of my time was spent reading news alerts and making sure they were incorporated into the news anchors’ scripts, finding random video snippets in this massive physical video library that was absolutely…

Angel Investor, BACKED Community — In his own words, Stuart is a former ‘startup’er’ (founding team at Comufy, sold to King.com, the team behind CandyCrush). He’s now an angel investor. He’s sector and geo agnostic, and has invested in ~80 companies to date. 🧰 | My first ever job… I used to be a paperboy…

Co-founder of THIS™ — Andy is the co-founder of THIS™, the brand of plant-based meat alternative food products with industry-leading realism to meat in taste, appearance and texture. It’s unbelievably good. 🧰 | My first ever job… I used to be one of those tedious clubbing photographers who would take a photo and then…

VP Global Community & Belonging Brandwatch, Founder & CEO Hustle Crew, BACKED Community — 🧰 | My first ever job… Technically my first invoice was for acting in a Radio 4 play whilst at school. It was so fun taking a day trip to BBC Maida Vale! 🧠 | The last thing I geeked out about… bell hooks! I just went down the Youtube…

Creative Director, Designer, BACKED Community — 🧰 | My first ever job… The first ever job I had was as an engineer in a hospital. I used to go around and fix whatever people needed. In my first week I was replacing a computer in an operating theatre when somebody got rushed in for surgery. I…

What are they and should you offer them to your employees? — This article is by Jonny Burch. He’s a BACKED Scout and Founder/CEO of Progression, a product to help you define and measure career growth for your team. A lot of people who start using Progression, or who talk to us about setting up their progression framework, ask about whether they…