- This is fucking media?
- Yes, it's video, man.
(all laugh)
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- Morning.
So, it should be a pretty busy day today.
I've got a pretty packed schedule,
back to back meetings.
So, just getting up, getting on it.
I've got to have breakfast quickly
and head down to the gym, absolutely smash it,
and then get on to today's meetings.
(bright music)
That's the morning workout, done.
Alright, so, smashed out my rpm for the day.
I've done all my morning routine exercises and what-not.
I am heading into, I've got a
few PR meetings today, actually.
Right now I'm heading into one about brand Shazz.
Let's have a little look and see what's happening.
(hums)
Yeah! Awesome.
This is Harry.
- How you doing, folks?
So, today we've got to talk about lo-fi stuff.
We're going to talk about stuff at the site.
We're gonna want to get a timeline sorted on that.
- Yeah. So as far as we're on that the biggest
roadblock at the moment is just choice of studio, I think.
So, that was a marketing meeting with the meemo guys
and we've basically been talk about the way in which
we're gonna structure some of the releases for
these Youtube videos that I'm recording.
So, I'm going to be targeting each Youtube and Facebook.
Super excited, I feel like it's starting to
come together already.
I've got a lot of historical content as well which
we're going to release some historical videos on.
And I really, really just can't wait to start
seeing these things getting released out there.
So, I'm super, super excited.
(bright music)
So, just quick break in between meetings now
so, what we got coming up?
We have got this PR guy coming in.
He wants to chat to me about various bits and pieces.
These guys are some pretty big property guys
and they organize a lot of events and conferences
in the U.S. and the U.K.
So, I'm just about to sit down with one of their main guys
to have a little chit-chat about kind of what Spaces does
to make sure that they know that we are kind of at
the forefront of the space
and there's kind of a Youtube perhaps involving some
of their articles on the space.
Producing some content for them
involved in interviews et cetera.
And if I can kind of position myself as a thought leader
in the space we can look to do sort of presentations,
talks, getting involved in discussion panels,
that kind of thing.
So, we're going to step into that meeting now
and see how it goes.
The whole idea of the sharing economy,
collaborative consumption. If we live together and share
facilities it can become way more affordable.
And, so, co-living was what I starting doing in 2006.
We were the first operator in London
and we were one of the first globally to do co-living.
Back then it was applied to a smaller unit model
around flat shares and houses
but we have a co-living community on top.
So, what I did with my last 4 thousand pounds was
I leased a three bedroom apartment
from a landlord in Elephant and Castle.
I spent the four grand buying new furniture from Ikea,
doing all the work myself, upgrading it,
and renting the rooms individually with a focus
on co-living, affordability, sharing.
On that first project I made
5 hundred quid a month in margin.
After 6 months I making about 5K a month in profit.
I scaled up, found more landlords, found more clients.
By the time it got to 2009 I had hundreds of these.
I had lots of people living with me.
I was employing people to manage them.
Business was creating enough cash flow
so I can start purchasing assets.
At that point I really started to see the vision
for this space and understanding that, actually,
to really make a meaningful change in people's lives
and the way that people live.
We would need to purpose build the assets
and we can purpose build them around co-living.
So, I started planning all of
my cash into doing development projects.
I did some traditional development projects
to build my experience and as I exited those
I planted all my capital into acquiring sights
specifically for co-living.
We're not just creating a business.
We're not just creating a portfolio.
What we're creating is an entire ecosystem.
(bright music)
Just did a breakfast, watched a few videos.
Motivational videos for the morning.
Played piano for a little bit.
And now, what is it?
9 o'clock on the dot, pretty much.
Okay, so, gonna do a little bit of a workout right now.
I finished all of the Insanity workouts.
Which is the hardcore, kind of, general fitness,
stripping body fat, all the rest of it.
And now, I'm starting one of these new weight building,
muscles mass building programs.
One's called Hammer and Chisel from Beachbody
which I'll be starting probably next week.
Right now, through, I've got some upper body building
training workouts which are part of the Insanity program.
They're all part of the mainstream program as an add on,
which, actually, starts to introduce the hardcore
weights and stuff alongside a bit of intense cardio.
So, let's see how it goes.
(upbeat music)
Just kicking off a board meeting
with the London Bridge guys.
So, board meeting done.
I stepped out of a meeting now just to shoot across
to a landmark. It's the Wednesday night landmark thing.
So, I've got one, maybe two guests attending tonight
for their introduction.
Tonight they've said they would be introducing
the real detail of excellence as a possibility
which is kind of what we've been working towards
in this seminar series.
Can't film in there, unfortunately.
So, that will be my sign-off for today.
So, Thursday evening.
Smashing out a little bit of stuff.
It was quite a good afternoon, actually.
In terms of technology side of the business.
We've been developing some proprietary technology
for quite a while now and the initial release that
we were going to put out of it was due, about maybe,
a month or two ago and we hit that target.
So, this afternoon was basically the closing stages
of the testing and me signing off
the actual release of that.
So, it will be a really, really awesome, awesome win for us.
It really revolutionizes the way that we're doing things.
Right now I'm just heading to dinner.
I've organized a few, a small group
of some of my closest friends to have
a quick birthday dinner for me.
It was my birthday last week.
So, we're at Gaucho for this.
Let's see who's in.
Yeah! Yo, hey, how you doing?
- I'm good. How are you?
- Yeah, good. Good to see you. Very well, very well.
- Happy Birthday.
- Oh, cheers, man.
All of my selective guests for this evening have arrived.
And we are in this little private dining area
at Gaucho on Charlotte Street.
It's super cool, actually, I really like they've done it
with these glass doors and what-not.
(bright music)
So, that is the end, the end of the evening.
I had a really great time, actually.
I was a little bit reluctant about kind of doing my
little kind of sharing around the table.
Actually, afterwards after everyone was leaving
they were all kind of like giving me a couple of words
of appreciation back and what-not.
So, it was really cool.
This week's gone was particularly interesting, actually.
I think it was really, really awesome to have
my parents with me for a few days, actually.
I think in all the years that I've lived in London
I've never actually hosted them to come and visit
me for a few days so it was really, really nice to do that
and spend some really good quality with them.
Also this week, lots and lots of stuff happened.
I mean, I've been working for the passed eight weeks.
Six, six to eight weeks on the determining exactly
what my core strategy is going to be for the fundraise
for the tech platform and finally, this week
all the moving parts kind of came together.
I had all the information I needed
in order to make a decision and I've made my decision.
I've executed on my decision.
And now, you know, it kind of kicks off in terms of
implementation so it's been a really, really strong week.
And I can't wait to stuck into next week.