Emma Grede

Does that mean he doesn't fancy me?

I'll be your employee.

Can you fancy an employee?

Do you know what I mean?

So there's all of this stuff, but ultimately it meant that I walked into that meeting 100% with an employee mentality and finding it very difficult to understand what that would mean and questioning myself, would I be fit to run this company?

Am I the right person?

Am I going to get what I need out of this negotiation?

And what I hadn't understood is that it wasn't a negotiation.

I was completely in the driving seat.

I didn't even understand my own power when I had it.

And so for me, what I've done since is really to figure out, like, when am I in the driving seat?

And I think that we often will create bosses for ourselves, will create superiors in any situation.

You go to the bank, the bank manager's suddenly your boss.

You go to see a lawyer, suddenly the lawyer's your boss.

It's like none of these people are your boss.

You have just...

fictionalize this idea of somebody who is in charge because they have information that perhaps you don't know, even if you're paying for the service.

So in this situation, I was the boss.

I was the person that was running the company.

These guys were simply investors.