Moment 30 - These Qualities Will Help You In Business: Tom Blomfield

Uh What was it about you that was disruptive, though? I want some s specifics. Um whenever I'm I see a problem. I think that this is in common with anyone who starts a business. I look at the way something's done and immediately start thinking of better ways to do it. Rather than just doing what I'm told. I sort of scratch my head and think, No, this doesn't make sense to me. Why are we doing it this way that we could do it in this other way, which is ten times faster. I mean I One of my first ever jobs was to

with another analyst go and count all of the jewelry items on a like a massive jewelry website. There must have been a thousand to do a tally chart of the price range. And this guy started doing them by hand. So I scratched my head and wrote a little Excel script to scrap basically scrape the website and just tally them up and go Test results. I mean. But they didn't want that.'Cause they were billing by the hour, and that had only taken an hour of my time rather than twenty hours, and so they could only bill

Yeah, for an hour. Like, No, no, no, go back and do it by hand. So it That kind of stuff just drove me crazy and I was always just looking for Ways to automate, ways to do things better. Um I guess that's what led me into entrepreneurship.

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