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The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.5 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Drive: BoF’s New Podcast Series on Global Entrepreneurship.
If you’re interested in building your own business, simply thinking about starting one or fascinated by fashion and entrepreneurship, BoF’s new podcast series Drive, delivered by DHL, gives you insider access to the entrepreneurs who have already done it, each in their own way.
Too often, entrepreneurial success stories are reported as a stroke of genius, followed by overnight success. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. As you will see in these intimate and inspiring conversations, entrepreneurial success doesn’t happen in a straight line — nor does it come easy. There are ups and downs, and twists and turns, but with each unexpected challenge, there’s a new opportunity around the corner.
In the first season of Drive we hear from fashion’s most dynamic entrepreneurs — in their own words — to discover what it really takes to build a global fashion business from scratch. First up is José Neves. On August 7th, we will hear his inspiring story, how a young Portuguese computer engineer who took his business, Farfetch, from a self-funded start-up in 2007 to a global fashion marketplace on track to a multi-billion dollar IPO. "From a personal level, I was absolutely hell bent [on] creating something in the intersection of technology and fashion, and that's when the idea of Farfetch came about,” explains Neves.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Imran Ahmed, founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion and welcome to Drive, |
| 0:06.4 | BOF's new podcast series, delivered by D.HL, where we hear the stories of fashion's most dynamic |
| 0:13.2 | entrepreneurs, in their own words, and learn what it really takes to build a global fashion |
| 0:18.7 | business from scratch. Too often, these stories are reported |
| 0:22.4 | as a stroke of genius followed by overnight success. But this couldn't be further from the truth. |
| 0:28.9 | As you will see in these intimate and inspiring conversations, entrepreneurial success doesn't |
| 0:34.7 | happen in a straight line, and nor does it come easy. |
| 0:38.4 | There are ups and downs and twists and turns, but with each unexpected challenge, there's a new |
| 0:44.0 | opportunity around the corner. Indeed, it's the ability to adapt to new challenges and |
| 0:49.7 | opportunities, as well as a special kind of passion, resilience and discipline |
| 0:55.0 | that help to create a sustainable global enterprise, |
| 0:59.0 | something we call drive. |
| 1:02.0 | In this series, we'll learn how Jose Nevis, |
| 1:05.0 | a young Portuguese computer engineer, |
| 1:08.0 | builds the global fashion marketplace Farfetch in London. |
| 1:11.7 | From a personal level, I was absolutely hell-bent in creating something in the intersection |
| 1:18.4 | of technology and fashion. And that's when the idea of Farfetch came about. How four MBAs go |
| 1:24.3 | about disrupting the global eyewear market from their classroom at the Wharton School in |
| 1:29.1 | Philadelphia. I don't think any of us went to business school with the idea that in the first |
| 1:35.3 | month we're going to meet good friends, come up with an idea and start a business. How a young Korean |
| 1:40.3 | American law school student follows his passion to create a vibrant streetwear brand. |
| 1:46.1 | It was never a business play for us, and I think the way that we structured this company is |
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