Laurence McCahill - Chipping away at the rock until the image reveals itself

Laurence and Carlos are designers of events and an online community that make entrepreneurs happy. In this conversation, Laurence talked to us about:

• Growing up in London pubs
• The family DNA of bringing people together
• The benefits of aligning what you think, say and do
• How he helps corporate hippies
• A life spent working out what he doesn't want to do
• Forgetting his vision which became a reality 20 years later (his wife Tamsin did not forget)
• Breaking his back in the middle of nowhere 
• The merits of 'temping'  
• The benefits of not being an artist when in a creative role
• Realising that culture is the way people treat each other
• Working with a mate
• The uncertainty of self-employment 
• Becoming a digital agency (Spook Studio)
• Becoming digital business designers
• Becoming start-up business designers 
• The misadventure of developing a co-working space      
• Becoming the Happy Start-up School
• Moving out of London
• His approach of chipping away at the things that don't work
• The benefits of 'space' when deciding on a new direction
• Balancing speed and scale v control and solid foundations

The Michelangelo quote(s) Laurence referred to are:

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it"

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free"

Happy Start-up School
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