Builder of New Ventures
Galton Voysey, Hong Kong
Job Description
Join our small New Ventures Team at Galton Voysey to dream up, build and launch new ventures. Work directly alongside our founder (William Wolfram) who has started over a dozen businesses successfully from scratch and generated over US$500M of sales profitably online since 2008.
In 2020 alone, our 3 person New Ventures team has built and launched 9 new ventures, one of which has gone onto generate over US$10M in sales and several million dollars in pre-tax profit already in its first year.
Requirements
What we expect from you:
- To be energetic and enthusiastic
- Speed of execution (do it today not tomorrow)
- Agility when plans change at the last minute
- Resourcefulness
- Incredibly smart
- Self-motivation
- Total ownership over anything you do
- Directness, including the ability to disagree openly
- Initiative - you should not expect guidance or wait to be told what to do
- Self-reflection and the desire to improve
Benefits
What you can expect from us:
- Hands off autonomy
- Access to capital
- Opportunities to start a business from scratch over and over again and to develop yourself
- Big but rewarding challenges
What you will learn:
- Useful tricks to increasing your innovation and creativity
- How to become desensitized to launching and failing over and over again and yet being as excited and passionate as ever in the next thing your building
- Accounting basics
- Tax basics
- Legal basics
- Management basics
- Hiring basics
Who should not apply?
If you are looking for any of the following, we may not be a good fit for you:
- Training or formalized development
- A predictable career path
- A conflict-free environment
- Predictable hours or a predictable schedule
What does the career path look like?
We hope you learn a lot and build many successful ventures. After that you may decide to go and run one of the ventures you’ve built as CEO and scale it as an independent company, or perhaps you will want to continue building new ventures. Maybe you’ll go on to lead your own new ventures team. Or perhaps you want to branch out on your own as an entrepreneur and in that case we are sad to see you leave but hope you will let us be your first investor.