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Sir John Lazar: Leading Ahead of the Tech Curve

Sir John Lazar: Leading Ahead of the Tech Curve27. Juli42 Min.

<p>John Lazar studied computer science at Wits before the personal computer existed as a consumer product. A Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, decades building and leading one of the UK&#39;s most consequential telecoms software companies, and now President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and knighted by King Charles III for services to engineering and technology. He co-founded Enza Capital to back the African tech founders most investors haven&#39;t found yet. This is a conversation about what it means to spend an entire career one step ahead of where the world is going and whether that&#39;s a gift, a discipline, or simply what happens when you refuse to look anywhere but forward.</p>