At the age of 14 Rose began developing his own 6800-based home computer and within a year, using a robot ‘pick and place’ machine and an automated soldering machine in his study, he was developing various computer products, including a RAM character generator add-on board and a RAM-based hard drive emulator for the Apple II.

[citation needed] Whilst at university Rose obtained a license to legally exceed the national speed limit so he could measure velocity and air-flow over his Alfa Romeo in an attempt to reduce air resistance and increase the fuel efficiency of the car.

[citation needed] Rose started his entrepreneurial journey at a 3D graphics platform that IPO’d in 1994 and eventually merged into the music file sharing company Kazaa.

[6] Kazaa eventually won the legal battle, they were deemed not responsible for the actions of their users, and Rose was allowed to finish the development of their licensed music store.

Rose ran his team in the BBC like a startup and by monitoring Twitter, chatrooms and online forums he continuously improved the product through customer feedback.

Rose was CTO of BBC iPlayer from 2007 until 2010, during which time it received a Bafta Award for Innovation,[7] the team grew from 65 to over 250 people, and it, at max, accounted for 20% of the UK’s total online traffic during the 2008 Beijing Olympics.