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Screw It Just Do It with Alex Chisnall

Nov 29, 2017

"We had a hundred people come. They'd all paid £50 directly into my bank account. And at the point that they paid me, they didn't know where they were going to eat food, what food they were going to eat and by that point we just created this momentum that we were able to generate. And out of these people none of these...


Nov 25, 2017

"I want to be the Air bnb of accessing compute, I want to be Uber of data centres.

Having the worlds largest data centre without owning any physical servers.

That's a massive market and that's a great opportunity for Yellow Dog".

Gareth Williams is doing something int he tech field that no-one else is  doing. The...


Nov 22, 2017

"Always head in the direction that you want to go. At the very beginning understand what you want to achieve,where you want to get to, because if you don't... you'll get lost.

And that's what Ed and I have done from the very beginning. We knew we wanted to achieve all these things - so we stuck to that, as much as...


Nov 18, 2017

"Then once we started to get some traction and proof of concept we got a huge amount of press. When we launched Milley Cyrus actually endorsed the product on our first ever event... took a picture of herself of having a champagne ice lolly...put it on the internet - but she forgot she said she hadn't been drinking!...


Nov 15, 2017

"We get to November, we lose £24k in 30 days and I'm like "holy shit". I've been flying by the seat of my pants, investing more money than we've got. I've been blagging the bank to give me more money, and now we're losing nearly £1k per day going into the winter. And I've got a big team of chefs, two venues to run...