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CitizenLab founder Aline Muylaert shares her business advice

July 28, 2021 News Desk

The speed at which you can get your primary product out to your customers will often determine your success, or failure, in business, says Aline Muylaert co-founder of CitizenLab. She spoke to BBC News as part our business advice series CEO Secrets. “When building a business, the most important virtue is speed,” says 27 year-old Muylaert, speaking from the CitizenLab headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. “Speed is more important than perfection.” CitizenLab is a digital platform primarily used by local governments to help them engage people online and make informed decisions.…

My billion-pound company has no office – Johnny Boufarhat, CEO of Hopin

July 28, 2021July 28, 2021 News Desk

In just two years, Johnny Boufarhat has turned his online conference-hosting platform, Hopin, into a company valued at over £4bn. He employs more than 650 people, but some of them he’s never met and none of them work from a central office. According to The Sunday Times Rich List, the 27-year-old is now the UK’s youngest self-made billionaire and in a recent round of fundraising Hopin raised $400m from private investors, giving it an impressive valuation of $5.65bn (£4.05bn). But he likes to do things differently. “Being a fully-remote company allows us to…