Wubbleyou’s Post

We're creating 3x tech scholarships with Northumbria University 🥳 Why? Wubbleyou started at NU because a leaflet stuck to my foot. I was a Computer Science student - it was 2009 and the job market was crap - "The great recession". It was a sandwich course, 2010 was my year in industry, I was meant to get a proper job for a whole year. Looking about, simply nothing appealed to me at the time - "oh well, I'll just finish my degree" Walking through campus, a leaflet stuck to my foot. Wait, it's not a 2 for 1 offer on pints of Carling - "Have you ever thought of starting a business?" What a question. Michael Peeke-Vout and I met Graham Baty soon after, who to this day looks after graduate businesses at NU, and we then started Wubbleyou. To this day, Wubbleyou work with Northumbria University on initiatives around AI, strategy and business, we've employed NU grads, we've coached graduate businesses, spoken at NU events - the value we've received from these opportunities is enormous. What better way to pay it forward, than this. But that's not the end of it. Imagine a future where more North East businesses are more valuable, and able to grow very quickly, because tech made it really easy to export their knowledge and capability around the world. To do this, we need more highly skilled, and ambitious people starting tech careers. We believe providing a scholarship encourages this and provides fairer access to higher education. We think this is important because tech is disrupting lots of industries, and businesses need to get ahead to survive. We strongly value learning, education and building tech products. When James Wilkinson MSc presented the opportunity - it was a no brainer! Interested in keeping informed? Join: https://lnkd.in/eTc7Y5JN