Liz Upton is a co-founder of Raspberry Pi, the UK’s best-selling computer, designed to make computing affordable and inspire a new generation of coders. She also co-founded Negroni Venture Studios, which scales and invests in early-stage technology businesses, alongside CTO Alasdair Allan.
Liz is Chair of Coherence Engine and OLO Robotics. Her work reflects a commitment to making technology and entrepreneurship more accessible, from enabling people to build businesses around robotics to supporting entrepreneurial opportunities for people from deprived backgrounds. Across these activities, she emphasises the importance of community and enabling others to build businesses of their own.
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Not everything works out but you dust yourself off, you start again and often that works really well.. You learn things.
I think for all of the projects that I've worked on that have been successful, I've gone into them just knowing in my very, very soul that they would be successful. And all I needed to do was convince everybody else that they would be too.
Pretty much every event I go to, every talk I give, every dinner I go to there is somebody who comes up and says, my kid learnt to code on a Raspberry Pi and now they're doing something massive, something brilliant.
I'm not a person who takes instruction well and a lot of the really, really good founders I work with listen a lot more than I do maybe.
I'm good at business models, I'm pretty good at people. I'm very, very, very good at spotting when people are trying to pull the wool over your eyes.