Mark Francis | Failing and Scaling - A Serial Entrepreneur's Playbook

With AI in particular, we're entering an age of entrepreneurship.

It's never been easier to set up a business.

You can have an idea, you can give a few prompts, and you can actually create an MVP within a day.

And so it's been easier than ever to test ears out.

Rather than thinking about, can I replace these people with AI? It's like, how can we get more productive using these people

and getting them to use AI? A lot of the boring, repetitive, time laborious tasks are done by AI.

So you can focus on winning new customers or managing your team or coming up with a new strategy or whatever it is.

We should all be utilizing it.

We are all going to have to, to be in the race.

We're going to have to use these tools.

So don't be afraid of it.

Just use these tools.

Now, just try and build things, iterate, create, even if it's just a passion project, something that you love that's never going to make money.

Show that you know how to conceptualize something, build it and manage it because that skill set is going to be valuable for you in your careers.

I don't know.

Guys, first and foremost, thank you for braving the weather.

I mean, seriously, I wasn't sure when I looked out the window how many people would turn up, but obviously Mark's a massive draw.

Appreciate it.

Yeah, thank you all for being here.

I know some of you guys are here for the first time, and just for you guys who are here for the first time.

So Banyan Workspace, Coworking Space, Event Space, we host these podcasts about once a month, live podcasts.

It all started off actually as... panel discussions that were never recorded.

And then people asked us why we weren't recording them.

And so we tried to keep it true to its original intention of being with a live audience.

It is a live podcast.

We do not expect you to sit in pin drop silence.

So, you know, if you have to leave early, if you have to get up for anything, please don't stress about that.

We will have audience question and answers at the end, though.

So if you can hold questions till the end and we will have a mic going around.

So with that mic, we can catch your questions.

And we have a wireless mic today for the first time.

Amazing.

Upgrading and moving around

everywhere.

So we do want to catch your questions.

And, you know, your job tonight, honestly, is to ask the questions that I forget to ask because there's obviously going to be things as we go through this that I miss.

With that, buckle up.

I have a feeling it's going to be a long

one.