Rob Wiblin

Nice.

It sounds like you've dealt with a bunch of different funders as you're trying to get this off the ground and then scale it.

Do you have any advice for funders on how they could approach projects like this better or how they might be able to improve their thinking in order to have more impact?

Okay, let's push on and talk about things that you've potentially learned about management and founder careers more generally, maybe over the last two years or over the whole of your career.

I guess, which past experience or training before you started Savita, do you think was most valuable in preparing you to be able to actually do what you're doing now?

Yeah.

Operations is a pretty huge class of activity.

Are there any particular sub parts of operations that feel particularly important to have expertise in or hire people into early?

Yeah.

Is there anything in particular you look for in a hire for a head of operations role?

Yeah, I guess the challenge for a head of operations with a new organization is that there's no manual, there's no procedure for doing lots of things.

They just have to be willing to like dive in and grapple with an accounting system that doesn't exist yet and like make it exist.

Yeah.

What do you think made you willing to quit a quite normal, secure, sensible development job in order to go and start this organization when so many other people are not willing to take that kind of step?

Yeah.

So potentially you'd save money.

You've been working for a while and quite a lot of like serious jobs.

And I guess perhaps you'd save some money and felt a bit more like financially secure to jump off and do something different that may or may not pan out.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.