What would it have been like to sit next to Elon Musk at school? Would there have been any glimpses of what he was going to become? I imagined this scenario when I sat down to chat to Vian Chinner recently, who seems to be on the cusp of some big things, mainly around AI and machine learning.

Chinner, who is 34, owns a company called Xineoh: “It’s phoenix spelled backwards, and we just took out the ‘p’,” he says.