In this episode you will learn;
- How he started his career in Russia working for the infamous Mark
- Rich as an ‘intrapreneur’ and what that process taught him about
- business.
- The value of being a sole founder
- His definitions on focus, and how important that can be for someone who describes himself as ‘easily distracted’.
- How he started an MBA knowing he’d most likely
- come towards the bottom of the class but still be one of the only
- people to start an actual business - and he was right on both fronts.
- And lots more of course.
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- Slack: Cal Henderson - An Engineer’s Fairytale Story
- Alain De Botton - Finding Answers to Life’s Tricky Questions
- Atomic Habits - Little things can transform your life
- DECIEM - a tale of tragedy and beauty with CEO Nicola Kilner
- Trinny Woodall reveals her surprising, untold startup journey - from dotcom bust to beauty boom today
- Myprotein: How to bootstrap a £500 overdraft into a £350m exit, with Founder Oliver Cookson
- After his startup IPOd in record time everything fell apart, with Eve Sleep co-founder Kuba Wieczorek
- MedMen:what went wrong at the cannabis industry’s first unicorn, with Founder and former CEO Adam Bierman
- MasterClass: how to get over a stutter and attract A-listers like Anna Wintour and Martin Scorsese, with Founder & CEO David Rogier
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