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19th August 2019
02:15pm BST

"Every day is tough. It’s a cliché but it’s an absolute rollercoaster. We have, and I’m sure every entrepreneur or anybody running any company would have similar stories, but we’ve ran out of money. "We’ve had to put people on half wages. Luckily we’ve always been growing but I would nearly say any problem that could ever hit us, hit us. We’ve had shareholder problems. "It’s been an incredibly difficult path that will test every fibre in your being, really. But they continue to happen."
"Somebody that I really value their opinion, they just said 'Business is about solving problems,' and everyday you’re going to have a new problem. It’s your ability to not get knocked down too much. "In the dark times you need those little glimmers of light to keep you going and luckily we’ve always had them in iCabbi."The idea that it's all about problem solving is a simple outlook on business that is often overlooked. Both in the sense that businesses must externally solve problems for customers and internally for themselves, it's true in more ways than one. Now running a business that solves problems for hundreds of thousands of taxi drivers all over the world, Gavan certainly took that advice on board. Subscribe to The Architects of Business for free on iTunes, SoundCloud or watch every episode on YouTube.
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