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Venture Research with Donald Braben [Idea Machines #34]

Idea Machines

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The Importance of Cross Pollination in Venture Research

I'm really interested in what the day to day of running BP's venture research was. I imagine you like, Nick Fury sort of like going around to different superheroes and sort of say, like, we're going to form a team. What was that like? Well, he'll tell you, it was a very difficult problem. When I first arrived, I was,. you know, a single person in a single room. And so the research director then, you know, the guy who was responsible for BP's mainResearch activities spent about two billion pounds a year. He had 2,000 people working for him. The idea became embedded in some directors minds that the bang, the brave

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