Lastminute.com Founder Brent Hoberman: The Hard Truths Of Entrepreneurship

Brent Hoberman is an entrepreneur and investor. He founded lastminute.com and made.com, both of which went on to be valued at 1 billion dollars. Being born in South Africa, from a Jewish family and moving to England to attend boarding school, Brent identifies being an immigrant and an outsider as a driving force in his work. He shares with Jake and Damian how he used his misfit status to create his own path, and now actively looks for outsiders and mavericks to work alongside him.
They discuss how to build credibility as an entrepreneur and why this is so important. Brent doesn’t believe that anyone can be an entrepreneur, he reveals the traits and skills he looks for in young employees. After over 20 years of managing people and founding businesses, Brent shares the secret to finding the right employees, how to create and maintain a dynamic culture and how to find the benefit in controversy.
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[@HighPerformancePodcast]

Let us know what you take away from this episode! Who else would you like to see on the Podcast? 🙏

[@TheReflectiveCoachPodcast]

Ronnie O'Sullivan. Jose Mourinho. Sir Alex Ferguson. Beth Comstock. Louis Van Gaal. David Cameron. Sir David Jason. Roy Keane.

[@petertaggart6233]

Enjoyed the idea of focus on the things you love to do. Be great at it. And surrounding with like minded people. Guests: Toto Wolff, Chris Hadfield, Jurgen Klopp, Pep Guardiola Love the podcast.

[@jasonharrison5765]

Get young people in, use their talent and energy and give them no work/life balance and probably pay them less for the opportunity. Good business, no wonder he was so successful 😂😂😂

[@delightrie]

put timestamps

[@joshg9330]

Great podcast again guys. Worth pointing out for some viewers it might be worth explaining acronyms or saying the phrase in full e.g. IPO, ROI

[@abhishekanand4735]

Can someone tell the timestamp for "no worklife balance"

[@emilymn4468]

This was truly amazing! It feels like I sat down for a consulting session. Thank you Brett.

[@abdikarim5362]

Masterpiece

[@babetopaz]

Really enjoyed this, I would ask the question though on the start of an entrepreneurial career, Brent had more of an advantage in that he had a better education than say a young guy from a council estate, he went to private school then a top university, the opportunities are multiplied greatly with a good start,(I know there are many working class success stories) I hope people don't see this post as negative , I very much admire this man, but it does beg the question how much of anyone's success is down to background and opportunity or lack of, that's not to say Brent didn't work hard, his current status is proof of that endeavour, I didn't hear much on luck though, everyone needs some luck, pls don't post a reply with the the old chestnut that you make your own luck, I wish that were the case, the world is littered with hard working triers who were plainly unlucky, anyway, well done brent.

[@adwaidhtd3125]

Great job sir, employ from India❤😊😂😢😮😅

[@imranh5395]

Superb glimpse of the workings in the upper echelons. Thank you!

[@gjbell3127]

It took a long time, but eventually, "curiosity" rose to the surface. It is the founding element. Really enjoyed the conversation. Thank you 🙏

[@TheReflectiveCoachPodcast]

This was a great episode. Just finished listening, was brilliant. Thank you.

[@chriscolumbo130]

GOD BLESS RESPECT LOYALTY LOVE GRACE GLORY GOD PEACE!. FROM ME CHRISTOPHER W DRYDEN!.

[@petersblacks]

Excellent podcast. Really enjoyed this one and great content/learnings

[@lewishogg5731]

Just from that introduction you can see that this will be full of useful insight 🙌🏻

[@Joseph-ju6ov]

Really interesting guys thank you

[@lordnelsonmc.billionberg9166]

i REALLY ENJOYED THAT ! :)

[@mamoako1521]

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