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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Euan Blair, CEO of Multiverse, discusses the role that apprenticeships can play in the future of work, the impact of AI on skills, and the challenges of breaking into the US market.
Blair founded Multiverse in 2016. The edtech company’s focus is on matching diverse talent from a range of backgrounds with upskilling opportunities. It has trained over 10,000 apprentices in partnership with more than 1,000 global employers. While the company reached a unicorn valuation in 2022, it is yet to achieve profitability. In 2021, the London-headquartered launched in the US. Multiverse recently scaled back its US workforce after the business missed revenue targets. Blair, who is the eldest son of former British prime minister Tony Blair, was awarded an MBE for services to education in 2022.
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0:00.0 | There's an increasing emphasis on how can apprenticeships not just be an engine of social mobility |
0:11.0 | at the sort of early talent stage, but how do you use apprenticeships to reshape the workforce |
0:16.0 | and what the workforce looks like? |
0:18.0 | Don't go to the US because you want to be in America. |
0:21.1 | Go there because you're being pulled there by your customers or what you're seeing happen |
0:26.2 | in society or the markets in which you operate. |
0:32.5 | Everyone needs to be taught how to be a co-pilot of AI, how to work with it, the ethics of |
0:37.1 | AI. This is absolutely crucial. |
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1:14.4 | Hello. E.N. G.B. Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shapers of the UK |
1:19.7 | tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related. And this week we're joined |
1:25.5 | by Ewan Blair, co-founder and chief executive of Multiverse, |
1:29.7 | an apprenticeship company that is aiming to redefine education and work. Welcome, Ewan. |
1:35.6 | Hi. Great to be on the show. Thank you for being here. And first of all, you've described |
1:41.2 | Multiverse as being a genuine, credible alternative to university education. |
1:46.9 | So just talk me through what it is that you're hoping to do with this company. |
1:50.8 | So when you look at Multiverse, it's our belief that the best thing we can do is provide equitable access to economic opportunity, |
1:59.2 | which means really changing the way we think about education, |
2:02.6 | changing the way we think about work, and crucially ensuring that the benefits of both work in education reach as many people as possible. |
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