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Eben Upton

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“Software heavy. All hardware companies, and this is certainly true for my experience, the ASIC industry, all hardware companies release software companies because you can't make the hardware operative without software. And the complexity of hardware has gone up more slowly over time than the complexity of the software that you run on it. So even though we're leveraging, we're a Linux computer company, we leverage this enormous reservoir of collective endeavor, so the Linux kernel in the GNU and Debian user land, there's still a lot of device specific software engineering, software engineering is probably two-thirds to three quarters of the engineering team.”
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“The foundation is about 130-ish people at the moment. Raspberry Pi Limited, so my bit, is about 80 people. And inside that 80 you have an engineering workforce of between 40 and 50 people. We have a publishing company. We're quite cons heavy. This is Liz, my wife and my co-founder. She runs that aspect of things. We have very nice graphic design capability, very nice writing capability. She's a journalist. And so we've always as an organization, we've always valued community and we've always valued writing as a craft just as we valued electronic design and software engineering as crafts. And that's how we come to have a publishing company. That's how we come to have a bunch of copy editors and graphic designers and videographers and people on staff.”
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“often generated, I think, by that mindset that I'm going to build the thing that I want and we'll see whether there are other people like me.”
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“It's not impossible to misperceive where the markets are. But even if you perceive where they are, if you try to land products in between them, you can land them in an empty space in between two concentrations of demand. And the interesting thing about building the products you yourself would want to buy is at least there's one customer. And often most people, most of us are representative of some class of person. If you're lucky, then it's a large and underserved class of person. And you end up with a product like an iPad or a Peloton bicycle or a Raspberry Pi that, I mean, the Peloton, obviously Peloton's having a fun time at the moment, but the Peloton story is fascinating, right? I mean, the guy almost failed to get his Kickstarter to work, right? You know, really, his Kickstarter was only backed by his friends. No one could believe that this was going to be a thing. And of course, it turns out to be enormously enormously popular. And these category defining products that you can't market research or focus group into existence are...”
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“Build the products we want to buy. There's a characterization of classic era Apple, or perhaps post Jobs's return Apple as a company that built products that Steve wanted to buy. And the genius of Apple was that lots of other people wanted to buy those things. And that was why it was successful. And so we don't build the things I want to make. We build the things I want to buy. We build the things we want to buy. We have a big office full of engineers. There are huge advantages to that as a way of designing products compared to the sort of traditional marketing led way of doing this stuff because the problem with that is it tends to lead to interpolated products, marketing traditional kind of a market analysis tends to lead to products which interpolate between the needs of different user communities and it's entirely possible to interpolate it's not a continuous space. And so it's entirely possible to interpolate between two decent chunky markets.”
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“My Use of Ras Is what I think of as the decoder question. You have an interesting sort of decision making space, right? You've got a foundation, you've got a mission, you've got a vast array of customers from oil rigs to kids in their bedrooms. How do you make decisions?”
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“I did an MBA and I finished in April of 2011 and told my wife Liz, who's a co-founder of Raspberry Pi, told her that we'd have a quiet time for a little bit. And then the news of Raspberry Pi leaked in May and were leaked. We kind of leaked it in May. And it's not stopped since in nearly 11 years now. It's not slowed down.”
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“Yeah, that's it. Most for profit industry of them all that I got into did a startup, sold my startup, got the hell out by the time I was 22. So I did perceive it as being a challenging industry to be in for an entire career. But it was a lot of fun while I was there. So that's what I'm interested in. I'm interested in business. I mean, I've been interested in business since I was a kid. I remember standing in the station in train station in Leeds near where I grew up and watching as a kid watching the businessman walk past their briefcases, suits and briefcases and like busy wanting to go somewhere and wanted thinking, it'd be amazing, you know, to be busy and to have somewhere to go and somewhere that's important for you to go. And so I've always been interested in it. I'm just a business geek really. It's a bit sad. And I did an NBA. I mean, the funny thing was I did an NBA just before Raspberry Pi in that window between Raspberry Pi being incorporated and the takeoff of the product.”
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“Make a difficult decision there, which has been quite nice. It is a good split because I'm not naturally a not-for-profit person.”
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“Yes. So I do both of those things. We're very lucky in that with the exception of the compute module product that I mentioned, we haven't ever really had to on the one hand compute module, on the other hand Py 400, which is kind of our trash 80 format Raspberry Pi and a keyboard. One of those is for our, clearly for our industrial customers. The other one is clearly for our consumer customers and our educational customers. Other than that, the middle bit, the single board computer business, which is still the vast bulk of our units, we've never had to choose. We've never had to make an architectural or design decision in order to service one customer or the other. The things you do to be a good computer for kids are also the things you do to be a good computer for oil rigs or have this idea like what's the tougher environment and oil rig or a kid's bedroom having been in my kids' bedrooms. I'm not sure and I have friends who've worked on oil rigs. I'm not sure I would care to pick. So I've never had to make a decision.”
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“That's probably the thing. That's probably the thing. We certainly are in the cucumber farming industry. I don't know if we're in the farming industry, but I wouldn't be surprised.”
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“Teacher training for computer science in the UK now is handled by an organisation called the National Centre for Computing Education, the Raspberry Pi Foundation runs that along with a couple of partners. While it probably started as an organization that spends the money from the sale of products in pursuit of the traditional Raspberry Pi charitable purposes, it's become a larger organization with kind of these three pillars.”
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“our work is extremely valuable for philanthropic partners because if you're a company and you're giving to charity you worry that the thing you're funding will dry up and blow away And being able to say, well, look, you know, and so the way that people mitigate this risk is they make very short grants, they make single year grants, and that sucks for everyone, right? It sucks for the donor. It sucks for the recipient because you can't plan long term. It sucks for the donor because you end up doing an enormous amount of work every year administering these recurring grants. And so if you have an organization that you can say, this is independently funded, we can guarantee you that we won't dry up and blow away. We can guarantee that all of your money you donate to us will go on actual project work rather than on central administrative costs. We'll cover all of that ourselves. And in return, you can make three grants. So it's easier for you, it's easier for us. So you can take that stream of revenue from us, that stream of dividend. And you can leverage that into the philanthropic space. Also do a lot of government contracting as well now. So we're a trusted provider of teacher training services, for example, all of the...”
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“So, the role of the foundation is to do good work. So it's a UK registered charity. It has a mission. So it has a, what are they called, I think, purposes, I think is the legal word. It's the thing that a British charitable foundation commits to do. And the purposes of a foundation can only be changed, I think, with the consent of the charities commission and the foundations a board and possibly membership. And its purposes are to promote STEM education and particularly computing education, particularly among young people, so particularly among primary and secondary school children. And to do that, it does a variety of things. So we return money to it. So we return our surplus profit to it. And that funds some activities, it receives corporate and individual philanthropic money. It turns out that having a reliable source of income, which the foundation does from”
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“That was, yeah, 7.1 in 2020. Seven in 2021. I mean, we are, there is a global semiconductor shortage on at the moment, you may have noticed. So it's a really gallingly. We sold almost exactly the same number, you know, a handful, fewer units in 2021 than we did in 2020 against just a background of absolutely exploding demand. So a lot of the work we do at the moment is really managing our customers now through the shortage environment that we're in and helping people. Keep going, helping people who invest in the platform continue to build on top of it at a point where we cannot build quite as many. We're still building very large numbers where we can't build quite as many as we'd like to.”
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“Fascinating. I want to come back to that. I just want to finish sort of the story of Raspberry Pi. You started to get 100 more applicants to Cambridge. The last number I saw is 7.1 million units sold in 2021.”
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“by other people. And that sort of finds its, well, you know, Raspberry Pi you think about the single board computer, the credit card size single board computer. A lot of the growth of Raspberry Pi recently has actually been in what we call compute module, which is a version of Raspberry Pi that lacks all of those connectors and is really only those core pieces of silicon that we've procured, built a compelling stable software platform around and then released in a form which can be integrated into your product.”
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“That's it. There's an interesting dynamic there, right? You know, you were talking about Apple 2. When Steve and Steve are making the Apple I could go out and buy a 6502 from an electronic store out of a bin and it cost them 25 bucks and they were basically for 25 bucks getting their hands on the absolute state of the art in electronics, in chips. And so the thing you could build with that was going to be competitive with anything that anybody else could build, and no matter how big you were, you know, you could sit down and be two guys in a shed and you could build something which could compete with IBM or compete with HP. That isn't so much the case anymore that a lot of the very highest end chips aren't generally available. They're only available to qualified customers. And so one of the things that Raspberry Pi are one of the reasons I think Raspberry Pi has been successful in the industrial space is to go and get various pieces of silicon from various vendors which are not generally not broadly available.”
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“The thing that strikes me is we're talking about appliance computing and we're talking about beguiling kids into coding, and we're kind of talking about the same chip, right? Or the same components expressed in wildly different ways.”
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“They actually say, yeah, I believe the core in the very first iPhone was ARM 11. It was incredible when you think how far that chip line has come through all of the generations of ARM processor and then out into Apple design custom ARM CPUs. But yeah, the very first iPhone, I found one in a box the other day. Very chunky object, actually. But yeah, those were ARM 11s, right? You know, that is, it's not an unreasonable amount of performance as long as you have fairly constrained ambitions in terms of what you do with it.”
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“For what we needed. For a long time, they didn't have general purpose processing cores, so they didn't have ARM cores. Obviously, Raspberry Pi is an ARM-based PC organization. And fairly late in the day, so in 2009, 2010 got access to the first device from that family, what's we call the 270X family, that had an arm, core in ARM 11, a very low-end arm core in it. And that became the basis for Raspberry Pi 1. In fact, that's still a device we ship today, so we still ship Raspberry Pi ones, we still ship the product called Zero, which is the $5 product, and those are still based around that very first chip, BCM2835.”
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“And then I ended up with access to these chips, which were intended for mobile phone, intended for the mobile phone market. And those just, they turn out to be very integrated. They have the ability to drive HDMI output. They ended up with USB. So you think about the interfaces, you go around the outside of a Raspberry Pi board and look at the interfaces that you need. Well, you've got GPIO, you have some general purpose I.O., you have USB and certainly until very recently the way that Raspberry Pi did network was that it would bridge from USB 2 to Ethernet. So you have USB, which both gives you a USB peripherals and the ability to bridge out to Ethernet. You have HDMI for display out, but you've analog television. And you have an SD card interface. So you kind of have these chips and they were intended to use a mobile phones, but they end up having all of the things. You look at them and you think, actually, that does tick all the boxes.”
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“I built something while I was doing my PhD. I'd built a thing based on an Atmel chips, they're the same chips they used in Arduinos. And I'd managed to persuade this chip to generate a video signal. And you could plug it into an analog television. And it gave you a trash 80s worth of an Apple IIE's worth of processing capability, half a megavam, a few MIPS of processing. But it absolutely did not meet that fun kind of modern definition of fun.”
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“Well, because that's the question is okay, I can say, you know what the world needs is a $15 computer that is as charming as my Commodore 64 was. My ability to go and develop that thing is shockingly limited. How did you go from, okay, here's our idea to we should do it to we're going to spend a long time in stealth figuring out what that product is to actually shipping.”
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“So I was the Director of Studies at Director of Studies at the University and I'd been a director of studies as a tail end of my PhD and I remained a director of studies for a little while after I went across into industry. We were fortunate that the devices that I had access to through that, through my job happened to be devices which could be repurposed to meet this mission, this kind of mission goal of the foundation”
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“Big Isles that's way into people's lives and then beguiles them into becoming programmers. And that's what we're trying to build.”
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“As low cost as a Raspberry Pi. And so, really, the idea was that cost had become a barrier to access to devices that might beguile you into being a computer programmer. I was beguiled into being a computer programmer. I didn't really on any given day sit down and decide to become an engineer, a computer programmer, electrical engineer. And I was tricked into it. And that was the thing that had gone away. And that was the thing. So when we were saying we're going to make a computer, we're not just saying we're going to make a programmable computer. We're going to make a fun computer that happens to be programmable because that's what our machines were in the 1980s, right? And so you need a thing which...”
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“iPhone 8 is a vastly powerful computer, but it's not really a computer. It's an appliance. That trend started, I guess, with the replacement of home computers as a platform for computer gaming with primarily with Games consoles. And it's continued over time to a point where the PC and the Mac are the only surviving, and now Raspberry Pi are the only surviving examples of what used to be the way computers always were. And the existence of general purpose computing is not, I think Chromebook is an interesting example of an appliance which really is being very successful at replacing a general purpose compute with appliance compute. So the existence of general purpose computers is not a God-given right, it's kind of a historical accident, it's a path-dependent historical accident. And what we came to realize is the thing that had absolutely gone away was the cost-effective general purpose computers. So there were lots of cost-effective appliances, cheap games consoles, cheap mobile phones, but there weren't any more low-cost general-purpose computers. And there probably had never been general purpose computers which were”
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“Of course, Android phones weren't really even a thing then. In fact, pretty much the Foundation's incorporation is contemporaneous with the iPhone launch. But there's been a long-term trend towards replacing general-purpose compute with appliance compute. So this is a vastly powerful computer.”
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“Yeah, they were on the space station. The ridiculous thing about the ones on the space station, of course, is that there are also many other Raspberry Pis on the station that are not our Raspberry Pis. They're running payload. They're great little computers running. Payloads with, they obviously fly qualified. And so we only tend to find out, we have no idea how many they're on the station. We tend to hear, usually when they downmass the payload, somebody will mail us and say, hey, you know, I've just had a pie on the station for two years. But they end up everywhere, right? But the origins of this are so thin and parochial and about tuning a number by 100 people, let's say. Let's say we make a thousand Raspberry Pis in 2011, 2010. Let's say we make a thousand Raspberry Pi000 kids. And 100 of those kids apply to the university. That is a 50% increase in the applicant pool and that will allow us to be more discriminating. Such a”
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“Computing. And that's actually been wonderful for us because it's meant that we felt rather having felt like a voice in the wilderness at the start. We've ended up feeling that we're part of a community of after-school clubs and coding camps and online material that's trying to solve the same problem. But the very narrow problem we were trying to solve was how many people are applying to study computer science at the University of Cambridge. It used to be 600, now it's 200. We want to admit 100 people. With the University of Cambridge, we do not want to have two to one applicant ratios. That's not how Cambridge works. We want to be besieged. We never got to a point where we admitted anyone who wasn't clever, but we got to a point where we admitted pretty much everyone who was. And you want to be in that position of being able to be very, very, very discriminating. And so you'd seen this decline, and we wanted to make the numbers go back up again. And it's such a parochial. I mean, Raspberry Pi's end up in all sorts of...”
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“I think that drumbeat has got a lot louder for a variety of reasons in the last 20 years. I certainly think when we started this, it wasn't particularly loud at all. When we started this, it was not long after the dot-com crash. I remember applying for some government funding for an earlier iteration of Raspberry Pi and receiving a letter from the government that had the immortal sentence something along the lines of demand for computer programmers has declined recently and is not expected to recover. And so this was very much there was a pervasive attitude that this was yesterday's, it was a fad, that it had been there had been a 10, 15, 20, 30 year fad, and that we were now out of the end of it and the dot-com crash marked the end of an obsession with computer programming as a thing that significant numbers of people should do. So I think there's been a, there has been a revival elsewhere in a non-Raspberry Pi related revival in enthusiasm.”
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“Unpack that there's a missing piece of hardware and I need to get kids. Interested in computer science. If you walked around any other kind of social benefit organization or went to any conference or anything for the past 20 years, the drum beat of STEM education is important was overwhelmingly loud. And then obviously we have a self selected audience. Believe our audience is very interested in computers. Right now, we're going through a boom of people being interested.”
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“Using headsack. So Cambridge is an amazing place to do computing. It's an amazing place to study computing and we were struggling a decade ago, 15 years ago, to persuade any young people and your school children that they wanted to come here and study computer science. And really Raspberry Pi is the social mission that Raspberry Pi has always had has been to get young people excited about it, to get young people excited again because I think there was an era back in the 80s and 90s when young people were excited about computers to get young people excited again. And it's always been about building a piece of hardware. The idea was there's a missing piece of hardware that kind of corresponds to those Commodore 64 trash 80 machines of our childhoods. So Wire Foundation, we were trying to accomplish the social good and therefore a socially structured organization seemed to make more sense to us than a purely for-profit one.”
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“We were trying to solve a social problem with Raspberry Pi. Most of us who were involved at the start were in one way or another involved with the university here in Cambridge. And Cambridge is one of the homes of computing. It's one of the places that has a claim. I'm actually sitting in a building called the Morris Wilkes building here on the outskirts of Cambridge. Morris Wilkes in the late 1940s built a machine was a professor at the university and he built a machine called EDSAC which is one of about 10 machines in the world that have a claim one way or another to be the first computer and everyone has their own definition of first computer that allows their institution's computer to be the first. Jack was the first computer to be used by someone other than the people really other than the people who made it. He provided services to other physical sciences departments in the university. Some of the x-ray crystallography work around the discovery of the structure of DNA. The computation for that was done.”
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“A Raspberry Pi at its simplest is an almost exactly credit card-sized single board computer. It's an object, green PCB. You plug a mobile phone power supply into it, you put an SD card in it with an operating system on, plug it into your television, and you have a PC. And we've made a number of different iterations of the Raspberry Pi over the years, but they all answered in that basic description.”
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“Strange. I mean, you say it's a long backstory. It really is a long backstory now. It is the foundation was incorporated right at the tail end of 2008. And then we had this very long and private prototyping cycle, I guess, of trying to, of kind of knowing, I guess, knowing what the sort of thing we wanted to build, but not knowing in detail what it was that we were going to build and what it was that the market was going to accept. But even the sort of public bid of Raspberry Pi is now over 10 years old, so we just celebrated the 10th anniversary of taking our first order on the slightly quixotically on the 29th of the 29th of February 2012. So we've had two birthdays so far and a bunch of pseudo birthdays.”
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“Am very excited to talk to you. I love meeting executives from companies with products that are ubiquitous, but maybe not as explored. And I think Raspberry Pi is one of those with a long and super interesting backstory.”
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“Of the company going public. Ebbett and I talked about all that. We talked about the value of open computing. We talked about running a hardware company in the middle of a chip shortage. And we talked about how Raspberry Pi remains a sustainable business, even though it doesn't do any of the recurring software revenue games that basically every other computer company does now. In fact, Evan told me he'll never do that stuff, even though he's a business person who wants to make money at heart. This was a really good one. Evan Upton, the CEO of Raspberry Pi and co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. And Upton, you are the CEO of Raspberry Pi. You are the co founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Welcome to Decoder.”
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“They're also some of the only readily available computers that are designed to be tinkered with, unlike a smartphone or a tablet or even really modern desktop computers, they're not heavily locked down. And using one requires learning how a computer actually works. And that's the entire point. Evan told me the idea of the Raspberry Pi was to create a product that enticed kids into studying computer science at the University of Cambridge where he used to work. Just like the Commodore 64 or the Apple IIE taught a generation of kids how to tinker with computers, Ebon wanted to give people an open computer that rewarded experimentation. The initial goal was simply to sell enough to increase the number of computer science applicants at Cambridge by 100 students. That's true, just 100. That was the whole goal. They've achieved that goal. Last year they sold 7 million Raspberry Pi units and now they're still”
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“Welcome to Decoder. I'm Neil Patel, editor in chief of the Verge. And Decoder is my show about big ideas. Another problems. Today I'm talking to Ebon Upton. He's the CEO of Raspberry Pi, a fascinating company that makes beloved, tiny, hackable computers that are extremely inexpensive. The cheapest Raspberry Pi microcontroller is just $4. The most popular model is about $35, and the most expensive model that comes with a keyboard is $70. They all run Linux, and you can do just about anything with them. People build robots, they learn to code, they run media servers in their house. There are Raspberry Pis on the International Space Station running experiments right now. I have a Raspberry Pi in my house that just connects a bunch of my smart home stuff together. These things are a phenomenon, and they're an underappreciated part of the computing world we live in today.”
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“Payment of $45 for three months, $90 for six months, or $180 for 12 month plan required, $15 per month equivalent taxes and fees extra. Initial plan term only greater than 50 GBR is busy. C terms.”
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