MDHUB Member Kate Bendix spoke with Tim Green of GPsurgery.net about his life, business and plenty more besides
YOUR ONE-STOP DOC I’m chatting with Tim Green about his cutting-edge digital business GPsurgery.net and how he’s got to where he is when suddenly, he pipes up, “Do you remember cassettes? Y’know, C60s, C90s, Maxell?” and I squeal, “Mix tapes!” I am transported back to the 1980s; Sunday night, Top 40, in my bedroom trying to record ‘Don’t You Want Me’ by The Human League to the end without tipping into Eye of the Tiger. The atmosphere was tense and skills were put to the test. Now? Spotify! No drama, just Software as a Service (SaaS). And that is Tim Green’s business in a nutshell. Tim is your typical engineer. As a child, he loved taking stuff apart to see how it
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worked. “I always wanted to do something useful.” Judging by his career, it’s mission accomplished.
EARLY DAYS
cassettes became CDs, and I became interested in digital recording and how people could learn through tech, using CD-ROMs.”
After studying engineering, he headed to Kenya for a year as a volunteer on a water drilling project. Back home in ‘sunny’ Britain, Tim trained as a primary school Special Educational Needs (SEN) teacher. Sadly, for Tim’s pupils, like many, he loved teaching but found working in education frustrating and, at times, toxic. So, it was back to engineering he went.
I feel another pang of nostalgia, but at the same time, relief as there’s no mention of floppy disks.
This time, it was to shift work maintaining machinery at a company producing those nostalgia-inducing cassette tapes. “It was hard work, but you learn something new from every job. Things were starting to go digital;
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“After a while, I needed something more and went back to do an MA in Interactive Media. I loved it for its creativity and technical skills,” comments Tim.
doing what’s in front of me and focus
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