He said he had been flabbergasted to learn that computer science was not taught as standard in UK schools, despite what he called the "fabulous initiative" in the 1980s when the BBC not only broadcast programmes for children about coding, but shipped over a million BBC Micro computers into schools and homes.
Think of start-ups and the first thing that comes to mind is a couple of ill-groomed and worse smelling MIT students hunched over their computers after a night of coding.