S1E7 - Peter Laurie | Software Engineer | Entrepreneur | Industry Mentor
This week you meet Peter Laurie. Peter has been a software engineer for more than 2 decades - he is director of a company that specialises in providing software for technology based start-up's, he's an entrepreneur himself and an industry mentor.
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Full Transcript:
Corinne Butler: Hi, it's Corinne Butler here from Advisor Adventures, and I'd like to welcome our guest today, Peter Laurie. Welcome.
Peter Laurie: Hi.
Corinne Butler: Peter you're from Junta. First question I ask everyone is, your business name, how did you come up with that?
Peter Laurie: So at the time me and my co-founder, we were looking for words that started with J, for no really good reason. And we found one that we liked, which was Junta. And so the definition was, we were going through word of the day, and the definition is a small group of people seeking to gain power through revolution, which pretty much suited what our mood was at the time.
Corinne Butler: So I suppose in business you'd probably see that a little bit, a small group of people who want to make big changes.
Peter Laurie: Yeah, that's right. And there's no way to do that in traditional mechanisms so you do that through influence and working with people, as opposed to directing people. Which is where we were at. We are at, yeah.
Corinne Butler: So Peter tell me a little bit more about yourself. So who are you and what is your background?
Peter Laurie: So my background, I'm an electrical engineer by training, but never worked as one because this thing called the internet turned up. And I burnt my fingers a lot less on the internet. I mean I've been doing software development on and off since I was about 10, but dad put together a computer when I was five. So I'm right at the front of that generation that's always had technology or a computer to play with, so I don't know any different. So I went into electrical engineering after high school and then came out and worked in a few different, what we call startups now, but they were just new ventures back then. So one called Information Dynamics, where we did Ray Whites first website. And then through Y2K, in it's Energex, in their power system. We definitely did fix some things that would have gone explosion. And then went through a few other businesses. I mean I can keep going with the history if you'd like?
Corinne Butler: Please, yep.
Pete...