David Hieatt on Entrepreneurship
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English - July 16, 2021 22:00 - 20 minutes - 14 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsArts Business Entrepreneurship manifesto for creativity creativity podcast creative process podcasts podcast for creators creative industry podcast Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Bankrupt at 16. Thrown out of college at 18. Joined Saatchi and Saatchi at 21. Had a ball. Left advertising to go back to Wales. Started Howies in 1995. Sold it to Timberland. Left. Started The Do Lectures, which was voted one of the top 10 ideas festivals globally by the Guardian.
And in 2012 started a company making jeans called The Hiut Denim Co in his hometown of Cardigan. A town that used to have Britain’s biggest jeans factory. Its purpose is to get 400 people their jobs back. As of today, it now employs 24 people.
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