This episode’s guest is Steve Melhuish, a tech entrepreneur, investor and board advisor based in Asia for the last 18 years. He’s founded 4 companies, scaled teams from zero to 1,500 staff, built a tech platform used by 40+ million monthly consumers, raised $400M+ funding, executed 5 M&A deals, took a company IPO on NYSE, launched a climatetech venture fund and invested in/mentoring ~25 greentech start-ups. On top of that he’s passionate about tackling climate change & inequality.

In this episode Steve shares:

• His belief in what a leader should do for their team
• His experience firing someone who was a bad cultural fit and why he should have done it sooner
• The reason he nearly caused disaster in a business by scaling too fast
• His plan for migrating out of a business and how he sorted a succession plan
• What he’s doing now in business to help fight climate change

Key Quotes

"If we'd taken our time I don't think we'd be in a worse position. It'd be a lot less stress, we wouldn't have lost as many people."

“We went from building to then actually being told to cut cost and that was extremely challenging.”

‘The impact of firing someone on the team, rather than a negative impact, had a positive impact.”

More About Steve Melhuish

You can follow Steve on linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemel/

You can also find out about his business Property guru here: https://www.propertygurugroup.com/

If you want to find out more about what Wayne does, check out his business via the website:

http://engage4performance.com/

Or you can follow him on socials:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wayne-reuben-engage4performance/