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EP #326 - Frank Floessel: Prioritizing Company Values
Category: Business
Duration: 00:57:07
Publish Date: 2023-06-21 15:04:08
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Timestamps:

4:46 - The evolution of the Swiss ecosystem 

11:08  - Building a resilient company

31:41 - Work/life balance

32:40 - Frank’s 3 biggest entrepreneurial lessons 

41:30 - Becoming an investor and the logical next steps



A serial entrepreneur, investor, and coach, Frank Floessel has had a rich and diverse career, starting from his university days at ETH Zurich, where he received a Masters in electrical engineering and co-founded and was president of ETH Juniors, which helps supply graduates and students with part-time work and apprenticeships. He extended this idea and founded a second venture, Tempobrain, a leasing company for short-term personal, career, and housing needs. He has spent much of his career in the US and is an alum of MIT's Birthing of Giants leadership course. Now he has taken a step back from working as a CEO at CBA Finance to focus on investing, and recently became the Head of Enterprise at ETH. 

His focus on the importance of company values is a huge part of his ethos, and it is how he currently helps coach other CEOs to run their companies in similar ways,  especially by giving insight into mistakes he made during his career that were huge lessons, as well as sharing other things he is proud to have implemented, like hierarchical dynamics. Values are the core to having employees who enjoy working at your company, feel you are transparent, and think you live up to your word. These are essential lessons he wants to share with other CEOs and he also encourages them to maintain a healthy work/life balance, which he admits can be difficult to do in the early stages of your career. 

Now that his focus has shifted to investments and his new role at ETH as the Head of Enterprise, he can take a bit of a step back and focus on spending more time with his family and contributing his knowledge in a way that does not compromise his time as much as it used to. 



“I think entrepreneurship is kind of magic: you have an idea, you make a business plan, and in the end somebody is willing to give you money for that.”

“Two of the key lessons of entrepreneurship are that failure is not an option, and that timing is really important.”


Resource:

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