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Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

REPOST: $70M Sales & Fitting Your Whole Company in Your Car with Nigel Toon

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Boxlight Creative Studio

Technology, Business, Careers

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Follow Jimmy: Twitter Substack Instagram Youtube Jimmy's Jobs Website Join us in Bristol, UK, as we uncover the remarkable story of an under-the-radar powerhouse backed by Silicon Valley's Sequoia. Meet Nigel Toon, the visionary driving Graphcore's hardware chip revolution. With offices in Beijing, Palo Alto, Oslo, and Cambridge, Nigel's team is redefining boundaries. In this episode, Nigel explores the technology behind our devices and the transformative power of boundary-crossing skills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This episode is brought to you by Shopify.

0:03.0

That's what I hear when I make another sale on Shopify.

0:07.0

The all-in-one commerce platform that allows you to start, run and grow your business.

0:12.0

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0:17.0

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0:23.0

Flash podcast 23 all lowercase and take your business to the next level today.

0:32.0

Sometimes in life, you gotta go big and nowhere goes bigger than Dubai.

0:39.0

A city-sized playground in a vast desert where the tallest building in the world

0:44.0

dwarfs super-sized superyots and there's no end to high-end shops.

0:51.0

So go big, go bold, go beautiful and fly to Dubai with Virgin Atlantic Book Now.

1:01.0

Today we take you to Bristol in the southwest of the United Kingdom,

1:05.0

talking to possibly the most exciting company in the UK that most people haven't heard of.

1:11.0

Back by Silicon Valley Sequoia, the same bench capitalist,

1:15.0

behind Apple, Google, Instagram and Zoom.

1:20.0

This company is set to reshape our future.

1:23.0

Meet Nigel II, the man behind Graphcore, who are revolutionising the hardware chip industry.

1:30.0

That's kind of the my career because I've been in the middle of this semiconductor revolution

1:35.0

and it's amazing when your whole company fits in a car and you can take the whole company to go and see a customer.

1:39.0

With offices in Beijing, Palo Alto, Oslo and Cambridge, Nigel's team is pushing boundaries.

1:47.0

What's really interesting in this episode is Nigel's past successes and how the Prince of Wales

1:53.0

made an unexpected role in connecting him with his co-founders.

1:57.0

It was through the Prince's trust the joke always was that the Prince of Wales introduced us.

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