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Founder & CEO https://nitter.gq/t.co/z92uMKLRuh & https://nitter.gq/t.co/mJK3cyEPsG @ipcentrum - serial tech entrepreneur / investor and recovering perfectionist

UK
Joined February 2011
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Replying to @markhendy
🤯 The rate of AI development now is insane. Causes us to have to be more precise about what words like “intelligent”, “think” and “sentient” mean. Also words like “exciting” and “terrifying” 😂
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Replying to @annimaniac
Working in person appears to be much more powerful than remotely. But ONLY if people want to be there. Therefore it is business owners’ responsibility to make it more enjoyable and rewarding to work in person.
Replying to @chrishlad
Deliver more value than you receive by as great a margin as you can sustain.
Simon de Banke retweeted
Season’s Greetings, IP formalities professionals! Sending love and best wishes. Here’s to next year being less weird!
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Replying to @scotterskine
Yep. Brings back memories.
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Expert in Event-Driven Microservices architecture design? Consider joining us solving really hard problems and helping us change an industry. #aws #microservices #serverless #lambda #eventdriven
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Replying to @NikkiAndBunty
Yeah, some can be. We hire really carefully for just wonderful human beings, who care about other people and about doing something extraordinary with likeminded people ❤️. glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Wor…
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It’s great that we’re all different! We’re not for everyone.
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Replying to @accessibleweb
Not essential, but Beano and Birdie Song a distinct advantage
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PS. Our work force is around 52% women. This is purely by chance and I wasn’t aware of the statistic until just now. We hire for merit, not gender split.
Totally agree. Didn’t take offence. I just don’t see how the ad would put-off rockstars with a huge intellectual bandwidth who happen to be women? I don’t want to specifically attract women or men. Just those with enormous intellect irrespective of gender.
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Definitely want to put off those not right for the role. Their gender is unimportant. Decoder only complained about “intellectual”, being masculine. Seems insulting to many exceptionally smart feminine people I’ve worked with. Plus masculine / feminine are not “gender” specific
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So precise and wonderfully succinctly analogous to “1% inspiration, 99% perspiration”. There are some problems where even that ratio would be a welcome relief!
Replying to @ruskin147
It is unfortunately common for many in academia to overweight the value of ideas & underweight bringing them to fruition. For example, the idea of going to the moon is trivial, but going to the moon is hard.
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Just stumbled on this video we did celebrating 10 years in #wrc. Brought back some great memories with a great team of people ❤️ youtu.be/95cqUlkMWJs
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Lockdown Goodie Box delivered to the team today. I ❤️ those guys x
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Just over 3 hours until #dBGXmas19. Can’t wait to spend another big night with our incredible team, celebrating an amazing year.
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Hot Shots in the office this morning. Lemon, apple, turmeric, ginger, black and kayenne pepper. Super healthy and delicious. #healthy #juicing
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