Episode 30: Billy Naveed- Building Ventures for South East Asia

About Billy Naveed:

My next guest on The One Percent Project is Billy Naveed. Billy is the Chief Strategy Officer at Smile Group. He has spent 20+ years in finance with Morgan Stanely and Credit Suisse. He was the Head of Strategy at Zilingo, a fast-fashion unicorn, and he is the founder of the Young Founders School. 

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In this conversation he talks about:

1. He talks about his 20+ years in finance, including his roles as a founder, CSO, and a Venture-Builder. He describes his career as a process of continuous self-discovery. The willingness to learn, discover and deeply understand things is what drove him to be the person he is today.
2. Leadership Vs People management. Leadership is giving people a sense of purpose rather than micromanaging them with a carrot and stick mentality. 
3. His views on disruption in the financial industry. Billy asserts that the financial sector's disruption is much slower in the short term and much faster in the long term than what one would project. That being said, he considers the two most interesting developments to be the mainstream acceptance of cryptocurrencies and the capacity to buy and sell these digital currencies.
4. Who is a Venture Builder? A venture build helps entrepreneurs focus on building their business by providing them with all the needed resources and removing blockages that might hamper their growth. Venture building is a private equity model in the venture capital space. 
5. Building the Young Founders School and what has he learnt from it? The inspiration came from how difficult it was to find good interns with basic entrepreneurship abilities. Putting roughly 4000 children through the programme helped him realize a lot of what he talks about in the conversation.

Rapid Fire:

• The hardest thing about your job? 
  • Uncertainty.
• One book or a blog that has influenced you personally and professionally?
  • Shoe Dog
• Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency?
  • Etherrum.

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