Graphcore - the most exciting company you probably haven't heard of

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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Careers, Business, Technology

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Graphcore is backed by Silicon Valley Venture Capital Sequoia, who have backed Apple, Google, WhatsApp, Youtube, Instagram and Zoom amongst many others. Nigel Toon founded Graphcore in Bristol, and now is employing 450 people across Beijing, Palo Alto, Oslo and Cambridge. Highlights of the episode: Nigel thinks that the impact of Artificial Intelligence is both overblown and underestimated How we should think of AI as a tool similar to how the spreadsheet impacted accountancy, far from displacing jobs as many predicted - more people are now working in accountancy than ever before. How the most powerful skill is seeing across boundaries How WW2 impacted the development of the jet engine. Their plans to hire 200 people in the next year Why Bristol is a brilliant differentiator to attract the best engineers. We also talk about the plans for Graphcore to float on the stock market. Oh if that wasn’t enough we finish on a touch of geo politics and digital nationalism. It is a cracker of an episode A reminder you can follow us onInstagram: @JimmysjobsTwitter: @Jimmysjobs And most importantly on LinkedIn.Jimmy also has a email newsletter that you can sign up to here. 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 politicsFor 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the second series of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future.
0:06.9	For the new listeners to introduce myself, my name is Jimmy McLaughlin and I used to advise
0:11.2	the Prime Minister on business, specialising in technology and entrepreneurship.
0:16.0	This show is about speaking to entrepreneurs about what they think the future looks like
0:20.0	and where they are planning to grow their companies open the next few years and what skills
0:23.9	they'll need to achieve this.
0:25.3	In reality, no one can be certain what the future holds, but entrepreneurs who are building
0:29.3	the future seems a good place to start.
0:31.5	For this series, I'm going to bring the Prime Ministerial briefings up to the front of
0:35.3	the show and we'll be going right across the UK and beyond.
0:38.5	Today, we are in Bristol, talking to possibly the most exciting company in the UK that most
0:43.0	people haven't heard of.
0:44.0	It is backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalists, Sequoia, who have also backed Apple, Google,
0:50.3	WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram and Zoom.
0:53.6	The Nigel 2 founded Graphcore in Bristol and is now employing 450 people across Beijing,
0:59.0	Paolo Alto or Sloan Cambridge.
1:01.0	One of the interesting parts of Nigel's journey is that he has built big businesses before
1:05.2	and we learn how his prints and whales that led to him meeting his original co-founders.
1:09.3	Graphcore builds the hardware chips that are going to be powering our future.
1:12.8	You can hear in this interview why Nigel thinks the impact of artificial intelligence is
1:17.5	both overblown and underestimated.
1:20.2	Now we should think of AI as a tool similar to how the spreadsheet impacted the accountancy,
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