E92: NotOnTheHighStreet.com Founder: Rapid Success Lead To My Darkest Days: Holly Tucker

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Holly Tucker MBE has over twenty years experience building businesses, and today she shares that insight with us. After working in advertising, media, and for a start-up, Holly gave it all up to start Not On The High Street, an online start-up with an inspiring mission: to give a wider platform for small businesses to compete with high street chains.

Known as ‘Hurricane Holly’ for always doing everything quickly, she started Not On the High Street in 2006. Then, it was just one of three online marketplaces in the world, the other two being Amazon and Ebay. Now, her business is going from strength to strength, and employs over 200 people from her West London base.

She has used her knowledge to counsel others looking to build their own businesses, and is the author of three books, the latest being Do What You Love, Love What You Do, about how to turn your passion into profit. We think after listening to Holly’s story you’ll see how anyone can found a successful business, no matter what barriers stand in their way. Holly’s story is nothing short of inspiring, and we can’t wait for you to hear it.

Topics:

Your early years
Losing orientation in your life
The Not On The High Street story
Optimism in business
Hiring for a business
Losing myself within the business
Leaving not on the high street and 59:48 59:48 rediscovering myself
Helping people create a good-life business
Do what you love, love what you do

Holly:

https://www.instagram.com/hollytucker/

https://holly.co/

Holly’s book - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B088TF94G6/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Sponsors:

https://uk.huel.com/

https://myenergi.com/?utm_source=steven_bartlett&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0	Early 20s, I'm Os Diagnos with a brain tumour.
0:02.6	That was the first knockdown.
0:04.4	Holly Tucker, ex-CEO and founder of Not on the High Street.
0:08.4	Holly's story is mind-blowing.
0:11.0	We go and pitch the idea of not on the high street
0:13.2	to the land of VCs who would tell us that it was lovely
0:17.8	that us women wanted to create a craft's website,
0:20.6	but really, there was nothing in it.
0:22.8	And I just say, well, we're actually
0:24.2	going to change the face of retailing.
0:25.8	Funny enough, it's not a craft website.
0:28.2	We tried to build a marketplace with no tech experience,
0:32.6	but we knew what we wanted.
0:34.4	And so we found someone who built the technology
0:37.6	that eBay were building in America.
0:39.3	And we just relaunched and we nailed it.
0:42.2	How could I smile or laugh?
0:43.7	I found myself becoming a different version of me.
0:47.0	One of the lines at Holienco is bringing color to gray.
0:49.8	And I think I was turning gray.
1:00.0	Holly Tucker, ex-CEO and founder of Not on the High Street,
1:04.3	one of the UK's most loved brands,
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