If you aren't a little obsessed, you aren't in a startup

PLUS: A $100m fund-of-funds boost by Government, moves to ban social media for under 16s ramp up + Microsoft lays off thousands.

Welcome to mid week!

We made it to hump day, a round of applause for everyone. Hope your week has so far been the productive kind of busy not the stressful kind.

Kicking off today, for paid subscribers we have the latest from our resident scribbler Serge van Dam with a reminder to all founders that obsession is the secret sauce which separates the startu…