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People Property Place

#68 Rupert Dean, Co-Founder & CEO of x+why

Apr 11, 2024
01:05:00

Bored by conventional thinking, Rupert, along with his Co-Founders Phil Nevin and Tayna Donald started x+why to unite a community of mission driven entrepreneurs, leaders and companies within inspiring and sustainable workspaces.

x+why enters into management agreements with landlords to design, manage and operate flexible workspaces to create more profit than they would otherwise, through either operating the space themselves or from a conventional lease.

Rupert is a graduate of Bristol University, having studied History, before training to become a Solicitor and worked at SJ Berwin, Maples and Calder as well as Sunbird Group before setting up x+why.

I sat down with Rupert to discuss a broad range of subjects which covered some of the following topics:

 

* Career journey before real estate

* How he got into real estate

* Management agreements vs traditional lease

* Having fun at work

* Raising capital

* Challenges of building a business

* Balancing, purpose + profit

* Finding your passion

* Not being afraid to take a step back to go 2 forward

 

Oh, and one last question - who are the People, what Property, and in which Place would Rupert invest should he have £500m of capital at his disposal. Catch the full episode which is live on Spotify, Apple and Youtube NOW! The People Property Place Podcast 🎙️ is powered by Rockbourne #podcast #rockbourne #realestate #peoplepropertyplace #property 

Podcast produced and edited by Matt Cook at https://mattcookproducer.com

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