Zoe Reich: scuba diving parents, volcanology & deep tech

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

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🗓️ 15 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Zoe Reich from Octopus Ventures is not only a deep tech specialist, but also a cryptocurrency whiz who has sold her own exchange whilst on maternity leave. And if that's not impressive enough, she's also a startup mentor and a powerlifting champ. We'll be delving into Zoe's fascinating background growing up with scuba diving parents, her passion for studying volcanoes, and her insights into the world of deep tech. 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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:08.0	Sorry, welcome to Jimmy's Jobs of the Future. You are a deep tech investor. Tell us what deep tech is.
1:13.6	Deep tech tends to be a lot of different things for different people, it's actually probably one of
1:17.2	the most unhelpful terms out there. At a very high level it's smart stuff, but what that actually
1:23.7	means in terms of the detail is it's a type of technology that often has years of research that's
1:30.2	gone into the making. You could be talking easily sort of seven to ten years in the lab in a university
1:36.6	environment which is where deep tech tends to come from because you have those significant
1:42.4	research budgets that go into creating something that has a real step change in benefit to the end
1:49.2	customer. This real paradigm shift in approach that gives this extreme benefit in comparison to
1:56.9	other digitisation technologies. Essentially it has a layer or many layers of science behind it.
2:03.8	Indeed indeed and that often goes into the strong intellectual property base which gives these
2:08.8	companies that clear water to go from research into commercialisation. Two of the great examples
2:14.8	of it are artificial intelligence and robotics. What are your thoughts on those in terms of where
2:21.7	will these create jobs because actually when people talk about AI and robots quite often there's
2:27.3	sort of a doomsday scenario of them taking lots of jobs. Yes absolutely. So I think that goes into
2:34.8	many different levels in that as I mentioned most deep tech comes from university environments
2:40.9	and in 2020-2021 there were 56,000 new jobs that were created from university spin outs.
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