Raspberry Pi’s ‘Once in a Lifetime’ Chip Disruption
In this live recording of In the City, Eben Upton discusses listing in London and what future shocks he may have to tackle.
From left, Bloomberg Radio Anchor Stephen Carroll, Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton and angel investor Sherry Coutu at the GROW Summit event in London on Nov. 7.
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Raspberry Pi founder and Chief Executive Officer Eben Upton and board member Sherry Coutu discuss how the computer maker’s public debut became a bright star in an otherwise gloomy London listings landscape on this episode of In the City. It was recorded live from the GROW Summit in London—the very event where Coutu, an angel investor and entrepreneur, first came across the Cambridge-based company 12 years ago.
With one of London’s most successful listings this year under his belt, Upton talks to Bloomberg’s Stephen Carroll about how his firm was “badly affected” by the global semiconductor shortage during Covid-19 lockdowns. “The supply chain crisis was a once in a lifetime, once in an industry, dislocation,” he says. “Nothing like what happened in the last two or three years has ever happened in the history of solid state electronics.”