If you’re following the Young Entrepreneurs Challenge then you’ll have seen our five finalists announced recently. These talented young entrepreneurs will go head to head at our Grand Final on 1st March, competing for the £10,000 Grand Prize!
We wanted to get to know our finalists a little better, and allow you to get an insight of who they are and what they’re about.
Today we talk to our first finalist, Harry Gadsby from the UK. Harry, tell us a little bit about yourself!
Hi i’m Harry, i’m 25 years old and from a small market town known as Ringwood, just outside the New Forest. I’m currently studying Business Enterprise and Innovation part-time at the Open University whilst working on Ango and working in the marketing department at Exemplas, a business consultancy.
What are your future ambitions Harry?
The true vision of Ango is to make ‘sustainable, attainable’.
The two issues opposing this is the cost of switching to truly sustainable products and they too much time and effort is required to identify them.
Vision: “to make truly sustainable products on price parity with their non-sustainable counterparts”
How did you hear about the Young Entrepreneurs Challenge?
I heard about the competition through word of mouth!
How did you find the application process?
I’d say it was a Mid>high level difficulty, appropriate for the challenge. The primary difficulty for me was having to condense an essentially complex idea into a very small paragraph.
What inspired you to come up with your idea?
A couple of years ago I decided to start making steps into a more sustainable lifestyle, but found that the options I purchased were either greenwashed, too expensive or that even finding something in ‘my style’ was an arduous process.
If you win, how will you use the prize money?
If we’re lucky enough to win, we would use the funding to increase the relevance of our product recommendations.
When surveying our test users, we found the majority needed the product recommendations to include elements such as colour and texture.
To do this, we’ll be integrating computer-vision into our recommendations. Arun Patel (our data scientist) will be leading the project.
Thanks Harry, it was lovely to catch up with you and find out more, we wish you the best of luck in the Grand Final on March 1st!
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