Simon Bushell, Founder and CEO of Sympower, shares his entrepreneurial journey and advice, touching on pivoting, growth secrets, mentorship, and focusing.
Simon Bushell, Founder and CEO of Sympower, shares his entrepreneurial journey and advice, touching on pivoting, growth secrets, mentorship, and focusing efforts. The discussion emphasizes the importance of curiosity, decisive action, and making a real impact in the energy sector.
I guess if if if you were to, let's say if I was to bring you back in time, you know, maybe to that moment where you were a consultant and and thinking about doing something of your own and let's say I was able to bring you to have a conversation with a younger Simon. And you were able to give your younger self one piece of advice before launching a business. What would that be and why given what you know now? I think it's it's extremely cliche, but focus. I it's the one lesson that you know everyone tells you and it's the one lesson that I think is is really hard as an entrepreneur to to actually listen to because you know in you know as as entrepreneurs you know we we want to say yes to things, you know, you know, follow the next exciting opportunity and so on and so forth. And I think that we I I think that the the way I see it you kind of it's kind of very binary. You have to be in
in one of two phases. In in in one phase you're your default yes and almost from from from one day to the next you're in default no. And so in default yes you are saying no you're saying yes to these opportunities, you're you're testing what's out there, you're seeing what what opportunities there are. But then you I think you need to make this really conscious decision to go into that default no phase where actually you anything that comes in you're saying no unless it's unless it's the kind of the the perfect possible opportunity. And and yeah and I think that you know and that's definitely you know me to blame for that. You know, we have too often kind of been somewhere in between and then you can't have that real laser focus on on on you know, the opportunity ahead of you and and you know, executing on that very very well. I think we're doing a lot better in in the last few years,
but I think if we go back in time to have that kind of real laser focus in in in those kind of default no moments yeah, it might have changed some things along the way.