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Alan Barratt

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first: 2019-04-10
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“I hope you don't invite my mom. Probably not. Slightly weird. Yeah. Obviously Oh, nice. I really wanted to make it a priority because, likewise, I'm not one of these, I don't tend to follow many people that I don't know I haven't met, but every time I see some of your stuff on LinkedIn or whatever, I always watch it because it's always profound. And it gets back to that learning piece. I always want to try and think, you know, I want to learn stuff because very different businesses, different stages in careers, but we'll have a lot of the same issues and problems. So it's really interesting to learn. So again, thanks for the invite. Really means a lot. Thank you.”
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“So it's fine. Yeah, Spotter Games console for a bungalow. So they've got a bungalow horse it. So I did that. But yeah, I'd like to think I've made them proud. But the thing is, mum and dad as well are proud of no matter what I did, all mum's ever said is, I just want you to be happy. Because I've always been happy. She's always been proud. So as long as you're happy. But yeah, so there you go. There's the six.”
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“My mum's got quite poor health. She's got osteoporosis, but she actually went back to work to save up to buy me that games console when I was like 12. So I'd like to say I felt bad at the time, but I probably didn't. But I feel bad now. So it's fine. I bought them a bungal”
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“Caring. And, you know, again, did a great job of raising me and my sister with just, you know, very little means at her disposal. And I remember saying once, you know, we were having quite a hard time as a family and she said, you know, if she had to work a thing to the bone, she said, you know, she'd make sure we're okay. So, and, you know, when I was 12, I really wanted like a Sega master system. Like it was the computer system at the time, which actually just went and rebought a couple of weeks ago. It's like 30 years old and it still works. But I went because I sold mine, which I regretted. So I'm buying back my childhood stuff. So I went and bought another one. But, you know, she went.”
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“Everything. Yeah, yeah. And he's like everything. And he'd go, I own a website or whatever. She'd go, oh, it'll never take off. What if it doesn't work? That's what you do, yeah. And we'd all be laughing. And she carry on anyway. And my mum's a very, very, very slow eater. So it would be a very long...”
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“Think. I'm ready to be proud. So I think we'd like to eat your food. And then I don't think it'd probably sink in with it. But if we sat there with her son and Sir Richard and a few other people, she wouldn't know Jeff Bezos. That'd be quite funny because she told us, what do you do?”
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“I bring my mum just because she wouldn't get out of the conversation, but she's really lovely. And Stuart likes her. I think Richard like her. And I'd like her to sit back and be proud.”
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“I was just going to say it's going to be a woman, isn't it? And it can't be my wife. Oh, that's cruel because, yeah, she's very entertaining as well. Do you know what I do? I'd invite my mum.”
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“It's everything 50% of US commerce or something. Oh, it's just insane. And doing that in like 20, 25 years? It's pretty spectacular. Don't know what he's like as a person and what I don't know if you like your cooking. No, probably not. But I think it'd be very interesting to get into the mindset. And again, I like to meet people and see what they're like because if you read a book, for instance, been ghost written by someone else, you never really know. You're looking someone's eyes, don't you?”
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“I mean, again, I think just the ability to disrupt, transform. I mean, I learned this week, for instance, all the things they've done that have failed, and there's a lot. And they've spent billions on stuff that's failed. And just the ability to just fail quickly and plough on and disrupt and put the consumer first. And again, starting off with an idea of just selling books. And now”
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“I would, one of my first early mentors that no one's going to know, but I was actually a guy called Stuart Sapcut. And I used to train Stuart when I was 15, 16 years old. I was his personal trainer. And again, he taught me, he didn't know he did this. But again, wildly successful guy, very, very low key. So no one would have heard of him. Big property development business. Again, really, really nice guy. And he just always looked after me and sort of treated me like her son, really. Got lots of good advice. Always very honest. And again, I saw. Again, with him, I think how to treat people, I think, on how to behave. He was a great mentor, still kept in touch with him and his wife. So I'd invite him. And again, him and Richard would get on. In terms of other people, these are going to sound really... I'd have to invite Jeff Bez”
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“Oh, I mean definitely about being yourself and again humility he has got this amazing energy that anyone is around him just picks up on. It's incredible. And just the fact he really cares. He really, really cares. So I've seen him, you know, he's just genuinely concerned about people. It's actually, it's quite miraculous to watch because they say don't meet your idols, don't they? Because you're disappointed. But yeah, he goes far and above what you'd actually, your wildest dream is what you'd expect as one of probably the world's best-known people and most successful people. But again, he doesn't consider himself successful. And frankly, I just don't know how he does it. I don't know how he crams everything in and that's quite remarkable. So definitely him.”
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“Yeah, I mean, you start to gravitate towards people that I know alike and I respect. I would definitely ask Richard, I'd ask the big man, Mr. Branson, just because I never ever, ever get bored of talking to him. And, you know, he's got 50 years of business experience, and he's just a thoroughly bloody nice bloke.”
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“Okay, there's four seats. I'm not sure I'd invite you. Yeah, okay, so we got no sure. I thought it was my dinner party. Fine. I'm picking.”
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“I'll be thinking, I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. How can I not dig holes for £10? So, you know, I get the fact people get caught in ruts and stuff as well. But yeah, people should be holding themselves accountable, I think, for if it goes wrong.”
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“Rare. People do like to go and borrow money from as many people as they can, but then if it doesn't work, it It doesn't hurt them. So you do need people to have skin in the game and businesses I've looked at over the last few years. They just don't have enough skin in the game. There's almost no incentive for them to do well. We had to do well because we put everything into it. There was no going back. And if I had to go and dig holes in the road for £10 a day, I'd just, you know, hand me the shovel I start digging, I'd finish the day with £10 more than I started with. And at least while I'm doing it, I'd be thinking I'll be learning.”
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“They don't take a risk on their own money, and someone said to me years ago with business, you know, I've always used my own money. It's always been my risk. It's been on me. If it went wrong, it hurts me and no one else. And that, I think, now is quite...”
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“But now that's it. I mean, like you said, yeah, if you're just standing still, yeah, you're learning nothing. So it comes back to that learning piece again and just doing it really. So we'd always really try and encourage that. And I think as well, I get asked to look at and invest in lots of businesses. And so far I haven't actually invested any businesses because, first of all, they mostly want some time, which I don't have. I don't necessarily see that many people who I think are potentially that investable. And I think nowadays as well, because crowdfunding's been a thing and people, it's probably easier. Now than ever to obtain funding or obtain money, even if it's just the three F's friends family and fools, to get to invest in you. But people almost go off and start investing money, but they don't actually use their own money.”
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“When people start talking about the power of positive thinking and self-help and they take away all the things we talked about, like consistency and timing and hard work and stuff, yeah, I'd rapidly tune out as well, to be honest. So I think I probably wouldn't have let her back in the cab, let her take her chances in the Bronx.”
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“Your local butchers or a global media business that hasn't put in a lot of sacrifice and hard work and had the timing and the tailwinds that we talked about. I can't think of one. I can't think of some just woke up one morning, had an idea, didn't really do it very well, and then all of a sudden it was just ginormous. I made loads of money and then everyone lived happily ever after. I just don't think that's happened. Even if you look at the likes of Amazon and the stories of Jeff Bezos like in his first desk because he's off like a door and all this. And surely I just, yeah.”
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“Maybe it was really. It reminds me of, I'm not really, I don't read many books because I don't really have that much time, so I'm ashamed to say. But there's a lot of these kind of, I'm not into self-help books and all these, and that sounds like it's along that vein of, yeah, just think about it and it'll happen and positive thinking. Now, don't get me wrong. I do think negative thoughts are probably toxic, so you should try and avoid them and try and have positivity. But yeah, you know. Positivity is great, but it's not going to get you out of lots of situations. There's been a lot of this, you know, four hour work week and take control of your life and you can make millions of pounds, but work three hours a year and all that stuff. And I think I just don't get that at all. Maybe it's just what I've been exposed to and me, but I don't know anyone who has built a meaningful business. And I'm not talking about in terms of size, whether it's, you know,”
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“Probably six year relationship with them. And stuff that we said we do, we've gone and done and we've done it better than they thought they'd do. Now we've got some credibility with them and actually more importantly some trust and trust is one of those really infallible things that they're there or it's not. Because people say, oh yeah, well, I trust him 90%. You don't trust them then. Because you can't trust someone 90%. It doesn't make any sense. You with a deal, you Back to my black and white thing again. Yeah, and actually they said, you know what? If you say you'll do it, yeah, you'll go and do it.”
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“I think that's definitely hopefully the first win is, I'm not saying I'm likable, but hopefully being likable or even just being memorable if you're not likable, just being memorable and I think then quickly followed up with doing what you said you'd do and doing it well. Or again, yeah, just exceeding expectations. And actually that conversation has actually happened with Tesco recently where we've now got a...”
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“Forgot to take capsules or just didn't like taking capsules. We thought, well, why is it 12? Why don't we make it four? So it's just back to that point of learning all the time. But yeah, personality. Personality is key.”
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“And that's really important to people, and it's good just to learn and memory is important, but you could see what it means to people, the fact that you've taken the trouble to know the name. And I think some of the things I learned there, you know, for free, interacting with people, learning what people like, don't like, all this stuff we actually put into the brand in some of the simplest forms, again, firstly making it really memorable because all the weight loss products at the time would all got really silly names that no one could remember. So having something simple, all the competitors at the time were like 12 capsules. Well, we knew, I knew from talking to people in the gym that people...”
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“Is personality goes a long way. And I think, you know, having a decent memory. And, you know, we had 500 members. I knew everyone's first name.”
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“Do you know what? While you were saying that, one of the best attributes anyone can have over and above education. financial means just about luck just about anything else I can think of personality How many times do you meet someone?'Cause actually I'm just me, like you're just you. So you kind of take it for granted because we're us. But actually when I meet people I've known for 20, thirty years and they go, oh, we always knew you'd do well, no matter what you did. Because I'm just the type of person to go out and make it work, I'm determined and irrational and lots of other things. But personality goes a long way. And that's actually one of the things I learned from working back in the gym, you know, back in the day, 20 years ago.”
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“We're going to go around the world, and it's not going to make any sense, but we're going to make an absolute fortune, and someone's going to come in and pay hundreds of millions of pounds for it You'd probably go, Al, what are you smoking?”
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“Yeah, they don't. And it's so frustrating. It is, yeah. Let's rewind 10 years. So we're doing the podcast. I haven't started grenade yet. So I come to you and I go, right, I want to make a fat burner product, but I'm going to put it in a grenade bottle. So it really, really stands out. But the bottle doesn't exist. I've got to go and make it. And then there's only me and my wife. We haven't got any money, but we've got four cats. And we work really hard. But we're going to do that. But really, the end game is, well, I want to take on Cadbury's. I don't want to then learn and we want to supply the military and we want to have fat burners. Then we want to take all the fat burner technology and we're going to make protein bars. And no one's eating protein bars and we're going to make everyone eat protein bars. So I'm going to put them everywhere. And all the locations where you'd never find a protein bar, we're going to put them in there. Everyone's going to love it.”
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“At the moment working in the call center and watching Netflix is not a step towards that goal. If you want that financial freedom, you want to change your life, only you can change it, it's not going to change around you.”
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“Okay, so you find time to do that. So there's nothing wrong with starting off small. Everyone starts off small. I started off small. When I had my distribution business back in 1999, my first sale was five pounds. I lost money on it. I drove a box of flapjacks. a seven or eight mile round trip in the back of my car to leave it in a gym for him to pay me two weeks later so I had to make two trips to make five pounds but that was the first way I got my first gym and ended up supplying hundreds of gems. You have to start somewhere. Everything you do from this point on should be a step towards that goal, no matter how small. Because”
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“Netflix. Okay, there you go. So you do have time. You just choose to spend that time doing something else. But now there's just excuses creeping in. So do you have time to brush your teeth every day?”
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“So, hang on a minute. So, what else do you do at the weekend? So, what's more important at the weekend then now than you taking a step towards your dream of having the, let's say, global chain of hair salons? What else are you doing at the weekend? So you wake up. It's Saturday morning. What are you doing all day? You've got all day to do whatever you want.”
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“So do more of the same, or you're already doing it. Now you just need to expand it. But looking at the other way, what does good look like? What's the dream? What would you like to have?”
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“Okay, but when people come to you evenings and weekends, or can you go to them? Can you be mobile? Does it have to be a physical site rather than commit to a physical site? Can you build up a client list and go to them and do an amazing job and get them to tell their family and friends so that you can go to them as well and actually build up a client list so then you can have your own location and people come to you? Is that a possibility?”
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“Okay, so you've got your evenings and you've got your weekends so you can make time if you want to do it. Is there a way you can do it so you can test the water somehow? Can you do it somehow part-time? Could you involve your mom in the business somehow? Is it something that she could help with?”
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“Provide for how will circumstances be different in a year's time? How will you have more money or time a year from now? I feel like I'll be ready.”
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“You've been successful. It's funny. The journey so far. I mean for me, I mean, I just said, you know, just do it, but commit to it. Don't half do it. I can only speak for myself and it, you know, depends what the idea is and what the person is like and what the downside could be if it all went horribly wrong. So let's.”
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“Make fools ourselves, you know, and we decided, you know what, there's no one here that scares us. Not an arrogant way, but you've got to have that sense of fearlessness because if you don't, you'll just never do anything. And it's just so easy to say no. And then you just say no to everything your whole life. And then you get a regret and think, oh, I wish I'd done that. I can't think of anything I wish I'd done. To be honest, other than maybe wishing I'd done the same things but sooner. So, yeah, I'd say to anyone, if you're just going to go and do it, just do it. What's the worst that can happen?”
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“And you think we are what if it does? And I think we probably get that a lot. I mean, don't get me wrong, you don't want to get fearlessness mixed up with just blighting stupidity being reckless. But, you know, we went into the US. Like I said, my wife and I on our own to sell product. The first thing we did before we actually got there, you know, we went to one of the big fitness shows, which was the Mr. Olympia, went over there, asked consumers before we took the brand there just to see what we were getting into. And we went in. So we did that. That was our due diligence. We went in. We thought, what's everyone else doing? If we rock up and do our thing and we're going to bring a tank in and we're going to bring in the best team we can get from the UK, are we going to...”
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“It's so easy, isn't it, to be scared of everything and just to do nothing? Actually, my dad's a lot like this. He worked really hard. And I guess he worked for himself, so he took risk. But he would always look at the downside potentially, so he never really encouraged me to go and do more. And I don't mean in a bad way, but if I'd have just gone him in a van driver for him, he'd have just been very happy for me because he could understand that because he could see you do it and you'd know what was involved. Whereas, you know, if I'd say, I want to go and do this, this and this, the first thing he'd say would be, but what if it doesn't work?”
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“No, not really. No. That was my celebration at a Korean agreement. But I don't drink. I don't smoke. I had a security business years ago, so I don't really want to go out to nightclubs. I can't, if we're going to talk, I'd like to be able to talk. I don't banging music over me and stuff. Yeah, I don't really do celebrating as such, not in that way. Should do”
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“But we went home and I'd literally had a curry and had a cat Cradby scray meg because I like Cadbury's cray megs. I just want to shoot myself to a cream egg. So that was a really weird way probably to celebrate.”
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“I've actually filled iPads full of ideas. I don't know what else to do, but yeah, you're right, they're having that bit of an anti-climax. So the point I'm making is the deal that night, the deal nearly got delayed because one of the banks involved just saw Grenada in a transaction and thought that we were arms dealers. So the money got flagged and held up. So we did the deal but didn't get paid. The money went into escrow. So we signed half our company away and didn't get a penny for it until that was on the Friday until the Monday and the banks reopened.”
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“Other than being able to have options and just go and buy stuff. So I didn't really care one way or another whether the deal went ahead. And actually, after we had that conversation, it was fine. It went ahead. And they backed us to go and do what we said we'd do. Surprise, surprise, we exceeded what we said we'd do because that's what I think hopefully good entrepreneurs do. And we proved to the wider world that Alan and Juliet Barrett were backable. Next year, Lion Capital come along and they didn't hesitate to ask the back us because we've got a track record of being backed. But that's not necessarily the case with lots of these businesses because it does funny things to people and people go off the boil and become complacent. And my problem is what to do with all the ideas I've got.”
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“And I said, I can do all that now. And I said honestly, if you're really that worried about it, don't do the deal. I said, let's not do the deal. And I'll just keep doing what I'm doing. And let's just forget the whole thing. And I genuinely meant that. And it was a lot of money. But it really makes no difference”
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“And I remember having a conversation, and we're great friends still with Grove Point. And they're taking a tremendous gamble because they're about to make someone overnight. Incredibly wealthy. And that does weird things to people. And they didn't want to say that because they can't. And I just, actually, the night before the deal, I said, you're really on the fence about this, aren't you? And I said, and I said, are you worried? I'm just going to basically just go off and just. Start taking drugs and go off the rails because all of a sudden, you know, I've got money that wasn't there a day ago or something. And he said, yeah.”
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“Be like, you've made it. Yeah, but I'm Yeah, you're absolutely spot on. I've never thought of that before, but I think something that you've really worked hard for and looked forward to, and it's something specific, is probably never quite as good when you get there as you think it's going to be. Yeah, you're right. What do you actually think it's going to feel like? When we did our first big deal with Grenade in 2014 to Growth Point Capital, they came in and, you know, the brand's only four years old at that point, but we haven't had a day off. We're pretty tired. It came in and the value of the business at 35 million. And, you know, we sold half the shares and rolled half the shares. And that was before the bar was even created. So that was just sports nutrition product. I remember feeling a tremendous sense of weight being lifted off me. But I think that was just the pressure of the deal and the roller coaster because they're on, they're off, they're on, they're off. You know, it's like a very, very invasive thing to go through because someone is actually just backing you.”
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“It's really weird hearing yourself talk about yourself in past tense. Yeah, I know, yeah. It is really weird. Especially when you're like half my age. Yeah.”
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“Look back and just think, oh, you know, he had a great life and worked hard and did everything he set out to do. Because actually, I don't have any regrets. And I think as long as you've got no regrets, then I'd hate to look back and think, oh, I wish I'd done that. We should have done that. So what about you? You scared death of death.”
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