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How I failed: “When people try to take things off you, you gotta fight back!” with Natterjack Whisky Founder Aidan Mehigan

Secret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter

English - September 08, 2022 18:46 - 16 minutes - ★★★★★ - 20 ratings
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For this episode of ‘How I Failed’ we follow the story of Aidan Mehigan’s fight to save his business, as it happened. We first spoke to Aidan earlier this year when he was in the middle of a fundraise and court battle to keep control of his whisky business. When growing his company in 2018, Natterjack Whisky, Aidan had taken out a convertible loan note to fund his business. Then Covid hit, by the end of 2021, cash was low, their sales were almost non-existent on the international market and the Irish market just wasn’t big enough to support them. 
The convertible loan note holder wanted their money, and Aidan couldn’t pay it back…
What happened? Listen to find out. 

If you have any feedback, we’d love to hear it. What would make the show better?

[email protected] 

Sponsor links:
quickbooks.co.uk/secretleaders

For this episode of ‘How I Failed’ we follow the story of Aidan Mehigan’s fight to save his business, as it happened. We first spoke to Aidan earlier this year when he was in the middle of a fundraise and court battle to keep control of his whisky business. When growing his company in 2018, Natterjack Whisky, Aidan had taken out a convertible loan note to fund his business. Then Covid hit, by the end of 2021, cash was low, their sales were almost non-existent on the international market and the Irish market just wasn’t big enough to support them. 

The convertible loan note holder wanted their money, and Aidan couldn’t pay it back…

What happened? Listen to find out. 


If you have any feedback, we’d love to hear it. What would make the show better?


[email protected] 


Sponsor links:

quickbooks.co.uk/secretleaders