Cas Paton - "Create something that's not easy to take away."

Show Notes

Cas Paton, founder and CEO of OnBuy.com, on competing with Amazon and eBay and the experience of seeing his company grow by 600% year-on-year for the past three years.

Show Notes:

(3:34) Founding OnBuy

(6:01) Taking a different approach to the likes of Amazon and eBay

(8:07) Transitioning the business

(10:00) A leap of faith

(13:26) The see-saw analogy

(16:40) Managing growth

(18:51) Challenges and advantages of phenomenal growth

(21:04) Self-belief

(23:09) Structuring OnBuy while retaining the original vision

(23:43) The investment journey

(27:48) Managing the distraction of investment

(31:41) Having the right backers

(33:28) Cas's business model approach

(35:21) Why Cas chose Poole as OnBuy's base

(37:02) Affect of the pandemic on Cas's approach to hybrid working

(39:05) Recruitment challenges and how to overcome them

(41:33) Staying connected to the team while growing and recruiting so rapidly

(44:09) Affect on entrepreneurialism on personal life & maintaining equilibrium within the team

(50:00) OnBuy's five-year plan

(53:04) Personal definition of success