Founding Teams Need The Right Mix Of Skills And Personality To Succeed

“Commitment to being a disruptive player in the market required all the original partners (four) to not only challenge their own assumptions about how business had been done but also have a vision as to what was possible,” says Scott Levy, CEO of the financial services startup Bedford Row Capital. “The business only really began to realize its vision with the departure of two of the original directors who, ultimately, could not deliver to that vision. Now, we are attracting more senior talent from the conventional banking sector who have realized the model is broken and that there are so many new opportunities to reassemble the value chain to actually allow for companies to actively compete in the wholesale capital markets.”