Life as a World-Leader in Tech with CEO of Daizy, David Ffoulkes-Jones #55
The world grows more technologically dependent with every passing second, an evolution that puts Daizy’s David Ffoulkes-Jones on the cutting edge.
As CEO of the business focused on the hard-to-define Internet of Things, having been a world-leading CEO at WDS in a mobile-first revolution, he’s well placed to guide us into a tech-led future.
Lee and David discuss:
Growing up underserved in his diagnosis of dyslexia
Why there are rules in sport that don’t translate to business
The element of luck in business
How AI tools like ChatGPT learn and evolve
What we can do with the Internet of Things to adapt our daily lives
Links & references
Lee Cooper: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leecooperrecruiter/
David Ffoulkes-Jones: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-ffoulkes-jones-392250/
Daizy: https://daizy.io/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/daizyiot/
Get in touch: lee@extrology.com
Episode highlights:
“An Australian English teacher took me aside one day and said, has nobody tested you for dyslexia? I think you're dyslexic, you need to go away and have a test. I did and obviously it turned out that I was, not that that changed anything at school, because obviously they didn't know what to do.” - 4:45 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“The rules that you applied in getting England to a World Cup final do not apply in day to day business, it is all the time in business. There's not one event that you're going to excel at and then tick that box, ‘I’m done’. What are you gonna do next year, and the year after?” - 12:50 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“There's no way in my mind that somebody doesn't get lucky. Bill Gates got lucky. Now, the question is, is it luck? Or is it just being open and working hard? If you work hard, you'll get into the environments that present themselves.” - 26:20 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“In artificial intelligence it’s one thing trying to get to an answer. The other is how to interpret a question such that a computer can answer that question, because you’ve got to break it down.” - 38:05 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“If assets in people’s homes could talk, what would you find interesting for it to say? So if a dishwasher could talk, the interesting things it could say are, my drum is worn out, my belt needs replacing, it’s empty, it's full, it's done.” - 52:30 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“I do believe that most things can now be solved using technology. Whether it's the right thing to do, that's a really interesting conversation. But certainly in the areas of process automation, I’d think we can automate most processes. The question is what’s the value of doing this?” - 1:07:45 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“AI is always driven by the amount of data that you can feed into a system. The more data you get, the better the algorithms perform, the better that the learning becomes, the more informed the AI is. I think there needs to be ways that access to that data is more open.” - 1:13:35 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“How many times have you been reading a book, and someone said, ‘Oh, can you just go and do this for me? You're not doing anything’. Yeah I am, I’m reading the book. ‘Yeah, but you're not doing anything’. We live in this world where we put the worth in the doing, not the thinking.” - 1:24:25 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
“When you're young, time is on your side. Don't confuse that with sitting around and doing nothing. Go out and experience and keep experiencing until you find something you're passionate in.” - 1:31:30 - David Ffoulkes-Jones
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