{"id":23572,"date":"2026-06-19T08:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/on-the-trail-of-the-dotcom-queen-how-julie-meyer-left-a-pattern-of-unpaid-bills-missing-funds-and-broken-dreams-in-her-wake\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T06:37:15","slug":"on-the-trail-of-the-dotcom-queen-how-julie-meyer-left-a-pattern-of-unpaid-bills-missing-funds-and-broken-dreams-in-her-wake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/19\/on-the-trail-of-the-dotcom-queen-how-julie-meyer-left-a-pattern-of-unpaid-bills-missing-funds-and-broken-dreams-in-her-wake\/","title":{"rendered":"On the trail of the dotcom queen: how Julie Meyer left a pattern of unpaid bills, missing funds and broken dreams in her wake"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investigation: <\/strong>The entrepreneur was once the toast of London\u2019s tech scene, a \u2018global leader of tomorrow\u2019 who starred on Dragons\u2019 Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But people she worked with in the last decade, from Malta to Switzerland, describe a very different reality<\/p>\n

Julie Meyer is sitting in a\u00a0starkly lit attic, surrounded by piles of \u00a350 notes. A California blond in a crisp, white shirt, her long, stockinged legs crossed at the knee, she listens intently to the young man standing before her. As he talks, she sizes him up. Eventually, she tells him: \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0going to make you an offer.\u201d It\u00a0could be a\u00a0scene from a heist movie, but Meyer is in a BBC studio, shooting a\u00a02009 episode of the TV show Dragons\u2019\u00a0Den. A celebrated entrepreneur with a venture capital fund, she is ready to invest in whichever contestants catch her eye. For the viewers, she has some advice: \u201cWhat is success? A lot of it is self-belief. Continuing on when most rational people would stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is an online spin-off from the original Dragons\u2019 Den series, so the stakes are a little lower. But for Lex Deak, a 23-year-old with a big idea for a social media website, what happens in this room today could be make or break. He desperately wants to work with Meyer.<\/p>\n

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\nInvestigation: The entrepreneur was once the toast of London\u2019s tech scene, a \u2018global leader of tomorrow\u2019 who starred on Dragons\u2019 Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But people she worked with in the last decade, from Malta to Switzerland, describe a very different reality
\nJulie Meyer is sitting in a\u00a0starkly lit attic, surrounded by piles of \u00a350 notes. A California blond in a crisp, white shirt, her long, stockinged legs crossed at the knee, she listens intently to the young man standing before her. As he talks, she sizes him up. Eventually, she tells him: \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0going to make you an offer.\u201d It\u00a0could be a\u00a0scene from a heist movie, but Meyer is in a BBC studio, shooting a\u00a02009 episode of the TV show Dragons\u2019\u00a0Den. A celebrated entrepreneur with a venture capital fund, she is ready to invest in whichever contestants catch her eye. For the viewers, she has some advice: \u201cWhat is success? A lot of it is self-belief. Continuing on when most rational people would stop.\u201d
\nThis is an online spin-off from the original Dragons\u2019 Den series, so the stakes are a little lower. But for Lex Deak, a 23-year-old with a big idea for a social media website, what happens in this room today could be make or break. He desperately wants to work with Meyer. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigation: The entrepreneur was once the toast of London\u2019s tech scene, a \u2018global leader of tomorrow\u2019 who starred on Dragons\u2019 Den and promised untold riches for the startups she championed. But people she worked with in the last decade, from Malta to Switzerland, describe a very different reality Julie Meyer is sitting in a\u00a0starkly lit …<\/p>\n

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