Daniel Priestley
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
Daniel Priestley earns The Catalyst not by managing what exists but by accelerating what comes next. Across 25 years the British-Australian entrepreneur has built companies from scratch in events, education and software, founding Dent Global and ScoreApp along the way.
“You could do that for political reasons because it would make people feel good, but it won't change the economy. What needs to happen is we need a thriving entrepreneurial class. Small businesses are the answer.”
“Thing that I see with, say, a food desert and a store is that the tax system is so punitive that a small opportunity like setting up a grocery store with all the taxes and all the regulations and all the stuff the government puts on you, it's just not worth doing it. There are better opportunities out there.”
“The only difference that happened in the time that you're describing where workers had to be included is that it was nearly impossible for a company to outsource their customer success team to the Philippines. And it was nearly impossible for a company to come up with a piece of software that would do 80% of the heavy lifting of a job.”
“We've hired some entry level people who are augmented by AI, so they become more valuable because of AI. But things like appointment setting, we've ended up hiring more salespeople because we get more appointments. We use it with our marketing and we end up hiring people who can actually have those final conversations with people.”
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