How Disruptive Business Partners Disrupt In Harmony
- michaelsogrady
- Aug 20, 2014
- 1 min read
There is something of a rock star status attached to being a ‘disruptive’ start-up founder.
With the start-up sector spawning pre-pubescent millionaires and boy-next-door billionaires, being the top dog behind the company name and logo can feel like a very big deal.
A relentless pursuit of success mixed with large doses of adrenalin and anxiety can create a pretty heady cocktail for new entrepreneurs, so what happens when two of them team up to start a business? How do they keep their disruptive streaks from derailing their business plans?
When entrepreneurs Lee Biggins and Brian Wakem teamed up to launch online recruitment CV-Library currently one of the UK’s largest independent job boards, their contrasting styles could have resulted in a very different outcome for the business.
Biggins had shown entrepreneurial flair at the age of 11, when he launched a successful car washing business, while Wakem had shown technical prowess as an early adopter of web development technology, building a website dedicated to the maintenance and tuning of his favourite car, a Renault .
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