100th Episode - Miles Jacobson: The CEO of Football Manager

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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Technology, Business, Careers

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Riverside.FM - the place for recording podcasts. Use code JOBS when signing up to Riverside here for 20% off sign up fees. To celebrate 100 episodes of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future today we host Football Manager CEO - Miles Jacobson. Miles is one of the UK's most in demand podcast guests, having run the iconic Football Manager for 30 years. This is the first time he has been interviewed about the almost 2,000 people that make Football Manager happen. The episode also touches on government policy, how Brexit affected football and the future of the video game industry. Miles’ story is inspiring, one of someone who initially was helping a few friends and then found themselves as a CEO of one of the biggest football games of the 21st century. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday. You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politics For more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here. Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:08.0	Welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future and welcome to our 100th episode.
1:12.0	The last 99 seemed to have zipped by in a complete flash and so much has changed from that first walk
1:18.0	when I was recording it into a £40 Amazon mic whilst recording during nap times in lockdown.
1:24.0	We have so many exciting plans coming up for the next phase of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.
1:29.0	And if you're interested to know more, I'll encourage you to sign up to our sub-stack,
1:33.0	effectively an email newsletter. The link is in the show notes below.
1:38.0	If you could go back 20 years and speak to Jimmy McLaughlin and ask me what I wanted to be,
1:43.0	I would have told you that I wanted to be a football journalist.
1:46.0	I was obsessive about the game. Unfortunately for my playing career,
1:50.0	I was stuck inside a rugby player's body as that was the sport that I was better at.
1:55.0	But I still wanted to be involved in football.
1:57.0	And while the only job that I could see that wasn't playing or managing was being a journalist for a newspaper,
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