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Jonny Burch is a serial entrepreneur, early Deliveroo employee, exited founder, and now runs Near Future, an AI transformation consultancy for product and design teams. As a designer for nearly 20 years, Jonny is the founder of Progression, a career platform for which he raised $6m and exited in 2024, before exploring the AI transformation space by day and tinkering in his product studio by night.

In this conversation, Steph and Jonny discuss:

👉 Jonny's design background and how it's influenced his entrepreneurial journey

👉 Early days at Deliveroo and the unforgettable lessons learnt

👉 Finding product-market fit with his first venture - testing lots of ideas and parting ways with initial co-founders before landing on Progression

👉 Fundraising for Progression during the pandemic

👉 Exiting Progression and the shocking last-minute turn of events

👉 Founder life and soul-searching post-exit

👉 What Jonny's working on now (hint: it's in AI!)

🤖 Keen to accelerate your team’s AI adoption? Get in touch here: https://nearfuture.works/

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Where it all started…

Tash Rebuck interviewed by Steph Melodia on Strategy & Tragedy

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As a world-leading expert on mindful productivity and systematic curiosity, Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist, entrepreneur and former Googler. She is the creator of learning community, Ness Labs (https://nesslabs.com/) - described as the mindful productivity school for knowledge workers featured in Wired, Rolling Stone and Business Insider. Anne-Laure is also the author of Tiny Experiments you can get your hands on: https://nesslabs.com/book

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