Moonpig Founder: How I Built A $150 Million Business WITHOUT Sacrifice: Nick Jenkins

So you do something with greeting cards. Is that something you do from your spare room? Nick Jenkins. Former CEO and founder of Moonpig. A company now worth one point six billion dollars. My first proper business was MoonBig, which, although I mean it it's been a success, of course it went through various ups and downs. Like all overnight successes, it took eleven years. I I gotta confess I probably slightly stumbled on it. I look at it now and think, wow, I that accidentally was a really good business model. Unfortunately we Too often we measure the things that are easiest to measure, and the easiest thing to measure is how wealthy someone is. I'm reluctant to create this illusion that that, you know, if you work incredibly hard, you can make a lot of money and that will make you successful. You have to be a successful human being. The most exciting times I ever had in my business were when my back was absolutely against the wall and think.

This is going down. Bizarely I found that quite invigorating. At one point my my shells all said, Look, Nick, this is never gonna work. It's never gonna make money. By the time I'd got to the end of it I was pretty much down to zero. Nick Jenkins. Former CEO and founder of Moonpig. A company now worth one point six

Billion dollars. Nick's achievements. Oh miraculous. He's incredibly inspiring. And he created a business that's touched many of our lives. But the thing that I found even more intriguing about Nick was he bucks most of the typical entrepreneurship and success narratives. I think we're all sold the belief.

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