Justin Byam Shaw
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Justin Byam Shaw emerges in this interview as a Pioneer whose defining instinct is to identify massive mismatches and move into territory others dismiss as unworkable. He describes buying the Independent newspaper for minus 17 million when rivals predicted failure, then executing the first successful digital-only transformation of a major newspaper globally.
“I always think that innovation of process is much more valuable than innovation of concept. If you look at Google or Facebook or Amazon, none of them were innovators in terms of their idea.”
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“We needed our journalists absolutely digitally aware, digitally savvy, producing content relevant throughout the day. That absolute relentless focus has meant we've grown revenues 20% a year on average since 2010.”
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“3 million tons of food is wasted by the food sector in the UK, just 7% of the edible surplus reaches charities and people. That is wrong economically, wrong socially, wrong environmentally. It is completely crazy.”
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