DiscoverStrategy & Tragedy: CEO Stories with Steph Melodia"We were 24HRS away from being homeless" | Dimple Patel - ex-Trouva, ex-Love Coffee, now CEO at NatureMetrics
"We were 24HRS away from being homeless" | Dimple Patel - ex-Trouva, ex-Love Coffee, now CEO at NatureMetrics

"We were 24HRS away from being homeless" | Dimple Patel - ex-Trouva, ex-Love Coffee, now CEO at NatureMetrics

Update: 2024-12-04
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Dimple Patel is the 3X exited BAME female founder (and graduate of Cambridge, Yale AND Harvard!!) Recognised as a Top Asian in ImpactTech UK 2024, Dimple is the ex-CEO of Trouva, and now CEO at NatureMetrics, a world-leading intelligence platform for biodiversity. 

In this episode, Steph and Dimple discuss:

- Dimple's early influences
- Going from the trading floor at the finance day job to cleaning toilets at the weekend with her first business, Love Coffee
- The Trouva chapter: her journey to CEO, secrets of a high-performing team, and scale-up lessons from the ecomm furniture's rapid growth
- Sales & marketing tips for techie products
- Taking risks and making mistakes (including how she and her family were a white-knuckling 24 hours away from homelessness!)

Learn more about NatureMetrics here: https://www.naturemetrics.com/

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"We were 24HRS away from being homeless" | Dimple Patel - ex-Trouva, ex-Love Coffee, now CEO at NatureMetrics

"We were 24HRS away from being homeless" | Dimple Patel - ex-Trouva, ex-Love Coffee, now CEO at NatureMetrics

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