Ep5 | From Cucumber Picking to CEO | M&S Classics - No.35 Beaujolais Village

From cucumber picking to CEO. From taking down a school network to leading data centre teams. Andrew Carr and Sanjay Tailor get personal this week — tracing the career paths that shaped how they lead today. Plus: Internet vs cloud vs AI — which is the biggest generational shift? The Neuralink question nobody's asking. And the truth nobody tells you about getting to the top. 🍷 Wine of the episode: Beaujolais Villages. £12 a bottle. Bit like their humour. Cheap. 👍 Like, subscribe, and share with someone who needs to hear this. ⏱ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro & Wine of the Episode: Beaujolais 2:00 Welcome to Episode 5 3:30 About Beaujolais Villages 6:00 Andrew's Career Story Begins 7:30 From Cucumber Picking to Tech Sales 9:00 First Tech Wow Moment: Intranets 10:30 Software Sales & Travel Tech 13:30 What Makes a Great Leader Today 14:00 Internet vs Cloud vs AI: The Biggest Shift? 16:00 Sanjay's Career Story Begins 18:00 Floppy Disks, DOS & Building PCs 19:00 Taking Down the School Network 20:00 From Sales Floor to Server Room 22:00 The Pivot: Technical to Management 24:00 The Defining Career Crossroads 25:00 Mentors Who Shaped Us 27:00 You Don't Need a Structured Route Into Tech 28:30 The Truth About Loneliness at the Top 30:00 Advice to Our Younger Selves 32:00 Advice to the Next Generation 35:30 Sales as the Foundation for Everything 37:30 UK Social Media Ban: Our Take 41:30 SpaceX & Artemis Update 42:30 Neuralink & the Chinese Brain Chip Rival 44:00 Data, Consciousness & Living Forever 46:00 The Best Interview Question 47:30 Wine Verdict & Outro #VinTech #TechPodcast #CareerAdvice #Leadership #AI #Neuralink #TechLeaders