R05 - Making the tough calls, building a better future, with Andreas Brenner, Founder and CEO of Avrios

Andreas Brenner, the founder and CEO of Avrios, shares his COVID experiences of making the tough calls to build a better future for the business: this experience entailed a massive mind-shift from "growth at all costs" to "cash runway and certainty is King.” We are now far more focused and as a result we've become tremendously more efficient.

Highlights:
- I took the philosophical decision early on to act like a more conservative CEO, to protect the long term survival of the business.
- We had to build a plan that had sufficient room for mistakes and uncertainty.
-Now it’s all about focus and now I recognise that being more focused isn’t just a factor to survive, but potentially a factor for us to win even bigger as we come out of this.
-What has definitely happened is that the whole market has aligned in the short term around priorities of cost reduction or efficiency.
-But long term there are some very important trends that will be accelerated.

Andreas Brenner is the founder of Avrios, the fleet management and automation platform. Andreas founded the business in 2015 and Notion Capital led the Series A in 2017.