Who isEddie?
A straight-talking lad from Scunthorpe who forged his path from steel-town roots to serial entrepreneur. Eddie bootstrapped his first startup, The Defence Works, as a sole founder and turned it into a multi-million-pound exit to a NASDAQ-listed giant in less than 4 years.
Not bad for a guy who started out chasing criminals around the North of England as a copper, before qualifying as a lawyer in Manchester – then jacking it all in to start a business.
Be a disruptor
Since Eddie’s first business exit, he’s kept on building. He flipped a 19th-century chapel in Manchester into the Ministry of Work – the North’s first ever exclusive work club – and co-founded Rare Company, a private membership where established British business owners sit with founders who’ve already built and sold companies.
Eddie is well-connected in the UK startup scene and doesn’t sugarcoat the grind. He calls it as he sees it—delivering the hard truths about business with the kind of blunt honesty you’d expect from someone who was raised in Scunthorpe and became a self-made entrepreneur in Manchester.
Projects
launched the North’s only private member’s ‘work club’
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co-founded Rare Company, a private membership for £multi-million business owners
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worked on the board of a $1bn NASDAQ-listed business
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bootstrapped SaaS to multi-million exit in 4 years
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Winners never quit,
quitters never win
Moving Manchester
forward
Eddie’s working on building a legacy that’s more than a few businesses on a balance sheet. He’s all about empowering the next generation of founders, helping them navigate the brutal reality of entrepreneurship with a little more honesty and a lot less fluff – and helping those from unconventional backgrounds catch up to those who’ve had a leg up.
