Secret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter & Chris Donnelly

My Favourite Failure: The side business which cost me £150k, my appetite, and my  mental health - Gope Walker

Gope Walker is the Founder and CEO of Data Kraken, a data consultancy that helps companies make valuable, data-driven decisions.
But whilst Data Kraken is making more money than ever today, the venture downstairs is another story.
Gope wanted to create a cafe that brought people together. But instead, it left him with depression, loss of appetite, and a £150,000 hole. 
He thought he was creating something valuable but customers didn’t see it that way. And when the council had the chance to save the business, they gave the cafe the cold shoulder.
What happened?
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Chris and Dan are serial entrepreneurs who've built, sold, scaled &amp; failed companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So, like, we get it - business is hard. But we also love it, it's fun!
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