Follow the Entrepreneur
In the second part of our interview with Ariadne Capital CEO, Julie Meyer we ask what is “Entrepreneur Country” and what should the role of the entrepreneur be in todays society.
Julie Meyer first rose to prominence with the sale of pan- European networking business First Tuesday in 2000. Despite the successful exit Julie is upfront in admitting that she wasn’t able to do everything she wanted to do with First Tuesday. It is Julie’s determination to establish entrepreneurs at the centre of society which has driven the passion and ethos behind her current venture, advisory firm Ariadne Capital. Like most successful entrepreneurs Julie’s passions lay in thinking big. “There are a number of things that I am trying to achieve in terms of having a view of how the world should work and my life is about making as much of that happen as fast as possible. I do that through my business ventures and the various projects I get involved with.”
Rather than being afraid of working hard, Julie embraces it, because “when you become rather convinced about what your unique contribution to the world should and can be, it is just really exciting to work on that. When you are focussed you realise you don’t want to spend time with people you don’t like or spend time watching bad TV. Instead you spend time on the stuff that is going to advance what you believe to be your unique contribution to the world; your mission and what advances the view of the world that you want. For me that is a very inclusive view about the entrepreneur being at the centre of the world.”
For Julie, that means that “society should be organised around the entrepreneur. It is about helping smart people win and for me it comes from having a very balanced view about helping good people who want to build a system to create wealth in the world for more people.”
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