Feb 6, 2023
What a great discussion today on ScaleUp radio I've had with Rob Markwell of Pitch Consultants. We started off by calling him the managing director but he's not really one for titles and actually, he described himself towards the end, more as a caretaker and you can hear how he gets to that through his conversation.
He's been through so much with Pitch Consulting. He started it with a with a partner, two of them from the garage essentially, grew it up to having multiple locations, but also then scaled back and also went through having his founder leave amicably.
So there's all sorts of things around that, some of the lessons around starting a business with somebody else, how you can protect yourself, how you can think about it if you do have to part your ways and get ‘divorced’.
But also some things about that journey of taking on more people and then having to make sure that you've got control of the business properly. And then restarting in a way almost from there having a bit of a rethink of strategy
So lots of really great things that come through. Rob clearly knows what he's talking about. He's lived it, he's been through it, but he's also taken on those learnings and a lot of that comes across in this discussion. So I highly recommend that you have a listen to this interview with Robert Welch.
Rob can be found here:
https://www.pitchconsultants.co.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/pitch-consultants/
Resources
Drive by Daniel H Pink - https://www.waterstones.com/book/drive/daniel-h-pink/9781786891709
Start with Why by Simon Sinek - https://www.waterstones.com/book/start-with-why/simon-sinek/9780241958223
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight - https://www.waterstones.com/book/shoe-dog/phil-knight/9781471146725
Slack - https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/