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GAIL’s Founder: The 17 HARDEST Business Lessons No One EVER Tells You, How We Solve The Future of Food

GAIL’s Founder: The 17 HARDEST Business Lessons No One EVER Tells You, How We Solve The Future of Food

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February 17, 20251h 31m

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Show Notes

Honour to sit down with Tom Molnar, co-founder of GAILS's. What Tom’s built in GAIL’s is truly amazing.

You’re in for a treat


ON THE MENU:

  1. Skateboarding & Slaying Monsters & Building GAIL’s: “Be in Flow” + Don’t let Big hot shot executives ruin the flow
  2. Why a FOOD business MUST make FOOD decisions… “STOP adding more business to the business for the sake of business”
  3. The GAIL’s No Celebration Cakes Rule: “Understand something deeply and make it better” + “Don’t change it before you know it”
  4. Why GAIL’s Competitive Advantage is an INSIDE JOB.. “Don’t change the thing that made you great”
  5. GAIL’s + Seth Godin’s “Circle of Us & Circle of Now”: Your Purpose Must Widen as You Scale
  6. The Different Founder Mode Gears: Accept you’ll NEVER switch off, but you can switch gears: “Sleep is an active part of your life”
  7. Black Belt Leadership Lesson ONE: Shut The F*ck Up and Listen. Listen first. Act Second.
  8. Black Belt Leadership Lesson TWO: Creativity across the WHOLE business + “…let your team play jazz”
  9. Why Brand Building is Like Water: a complex system, it never stands still, keep moving
  10. Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast: you need speed humps to slow you down
  11. How GAIL’s Charge £4.30 for a coffee: “The world has voted that it wants good coffee”
  12. Why Joy is Different from Happiness. Joy Comes from Doing HARD Things. Hard Things = Fulfilment.
  13. The Gail’s Algorithm for Picking Success Sites (this is GENIUS): Science is Art, Art is Science: “art is always asking questions”
  14. Why It’s a SuperPower to Believe The Best Days Are Ahead of Us
  15. Sausage Roll Rule Food decisions vs business decisions: How do we sell more? vs. How do we make it better?
  16. One year business plans are DUMB copy, Invent: What’s this going to look like in 5 or 10 years?


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