Grace Beverley

before university when I was 18 and I had the one main thing I had issues with in the corporate world I didn't mind the hours I didn't mind having a boss I didn't mind or I found it very glamorous I thought it was great I loved tottering around I thought it was you know I thought it was what I wanted to do the thing that frustrated me the most was when things were being done slowly inefficiently or in a way that didn't make sense to the business and

And there was no way to change it because it was just the way things were done.

I think had I not got so frustrated with that, I would have gone to university, started the businesses as I did and still gone back into corporate because I would have thought just as I haven't tried entrepreneurship, I haven't tried my corporate dream yet.

So I need to also see that through to see if that's the right thing for me.

And it's so funny.

I always wonder about whether that is something that everyone has.

has or whether it's like I see it as almost a, I think it can be a negative trait in some ways, like the inability to put up with things being done badly and just want to, even if it takes double the amount of time to actually fix the process, just to not see things being done in a stupid way.

once you get that itch it means that like anytime I talk to a business owner now anytime I'm speaking about a specific problem even if it's not one I've got a business in that area I'm like I could probably spend an hour talking to you extremely passionately about why something doesn't make sense and that is the essence of entrepreneurship

Yeah, zero sense.

Oh.

See, that's where we differ.

I think that, like, I completely understand that logic.

And I think it makes total sense.

I don't... And maybe it's because I have investor-backed businesses.

I mean, not all of my businesses are investor-backed.

And maybe it's because...

I don't know, maybe it's the way I see things or like whatever it might be, but I don't believe there's any job in which you don't have a boss.

I think that, and where you have total freedom.

Because that's the thing, is in like, what I don't want people to do is to start a business purely because they don't want a boss.

I think that that is one thing that it can be a big reason and you can still make it big and you can still do incredible things, but you're always going to have a boss.