The Insight series is taking a break this week. Instead, we are bringing you a very special live event that we hosted with Funding London. The event featured three incredibly successful British business leaders. All three worked in multiple iconic start-ups and built companies generating tens of billions of dollars revenue. They created and led Unicorns before that term was invented. They started their career in Oracle when it was a start-up with a few dozen people.
After over a decade with Oracle, Steve Garnett went on to co-create two other amazing companies, Siebel System and Salesforce, with the founders Tom Siebel and Marc Benioff.
After leaving Oracle, Stephen Kelly led 3 successful turnarounds to growth as a ‘hands-on’ CEO – most recently at Sage. He is the only business leader in the UK, who ran two FTSE 100 companies. He was appointed Prime Minister’s Business Ambassador 2015-19 and is Chairperson of TechNation.
After a decade with Oracle, Sukhendu Pal went on to work for the biggest bank in the world, where he created an organisation which became a multi-billion dollar business serving the emerging markets spanning 72 countries. He then led another successful start-up and founded another.
The three are Funding London’s lead mentors and in this event they discuss how the coronavirus outbreak has forced entrepreneurs to think on their feet, rapidly pivoting business models as they adapt to the “new normal” and use technology to transform relationships with customers and staff.
Here's what we discussed during the interview:
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