Drive Episode 1: José Neves on Building Farfetch | Drive
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Episode 1 of Drive, BoF’s new podcast series featuring fashion’s most dynamic entrepreneurs discussing the special kind of resilience it takes to build a global fashion business, delivered by DHL.
In episode 1, Imran Amed sits down with Farfetch founder, José Neves, who shares his inspiring entrepreneurial journey — through the ups and downs of building a team, raising funding and staying afloat — of creating a truly disruptive fashion phenomenon.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion, and welcome to Drive, |
| 0:06.0 | BOF's new podcast series, delivered by D.HL, where we hear the stories of fashion's most dynamic entrepreneurs, in their own words. |
| 0:15.0 | In this series, we'll learn how Jose Nevis, a young Portuguese computer engineer, builds the global fashion marketplace far-fetched in London. |
| 0:24.6 | If you do not have resilience, you're never going to make it. |
| 0:27.6 | Because at some point alone the journey, you're going to go through a struggle. |
| 0:32.6 | I always remember raising money and having a six-month runway. That's it. You know, either we raise money or six months, we shut the whole thing down. |
| 0:41.3 | Here's my conversation with Jose Nevis to learn what it really takes to build a global fashion business from scratch. |
| 0:53.3 | Good morning, Jose Nevis. |
| 0:56.0 | Good morning, Imran. |
| 0:57.0 | How are you? |
| 0:58.0 | Very well, very well. |
| 0:59.0 | We're sitting in your, I guess it's your global headquarters. |
| 1:02.0 | Is this where most of the, like, I know Farfetch is spread all over the world, but this is the global hub? |
| 1:09.0 | I wouldn't call it global hub. |
| 1:11.7 | It is definitely the HQ. |
| 1:13.8 | Portugal actually has almost half of the five-faces. |
| 1:19.1 | And that's where we have the engineering and a lot of the studios. |
| 1:22.7 | So there's a lot of stuff happening there. |
| 1:26.2 | But obviously London is the second largest office. And it's the |
| 1:29.6 | HQ. Yes. But long before there was an HQ and a, you know, hub and a big group in Portugal |
| 1:37.2 | and an office in L.A. and an office in New York and an office in Brazil. There was just, |
| 1:43.2 | Shanghai and Hong Kong. |
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