Adrian Lloyd is a founding partner at Episode 1 who built Marakon Associates' China office and speaks fluent Mandarin, giving him rare on-the-ground Asia experience for a UK seed investor, and he explicitly looks for founders who could get extremely high-paying jobs at top firms like Google or Goldman but choose startups instead, using that opportunity cost as a key conviction signal. Outside of venture capital, he describes himself as someone who would probably be making walnut furniture and doing lino-cut printmaking, highlighting an unusually hands-on, design-oriented streak among venture investors.