Most founders don't talk about this... but success isn't years of experience... it's confidence!
Emilie Vanpoperinghe, CEO of Oddbox, built a wonky vegetables business into a £20M+ scale-up.
This revolutionary female founder explains the uncomfortable biases women have in business, her hiring protocol and what leadership advice backfired on her.
🧠 What You'll Learn:
▪️ Why confidence trumps experience in determining entrepreneurial success (and the 20% confidence gap that's holding women back)
▪️ How to stay close to customers without losing focus as you scale to 50,000+ users
▪️ The uncomfortable truth about hiring bias
▪️ How small sustainable actions create bigger behavioural shifts than grand gestures
▪️ Why asking for input when you don't really want it damages team trust
▪️ The art of being directive as a leader without being authoritarian
📖 Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:35 - From Finance to Fighting Food Waste
08:03 - Tangible vs Intangible Impact
13:00 - The Sustainability Brand Balancing Act
19:17 - When Product-Market Fit Isn't Enough
25:24 - Staying Close to 50,000 Customers
32:00 - The Values Exercise That Almost Failed
38:22 - "I Ended Up Hiring All Men"
43:18 - The Confidence Research That Shocked Emilie
52:15 - Why She doesn't post on LinkedIn
57:23 - Co-founding With Your Husband
01:03:58 - "Stay Odd" — What It Really Means in Management
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