After driving approximately 4,500 miles on my visits to Gibraltar, Portugal, Spain, France and Monaco it’s a real pleasure to be back behind my desk and getting into the real day to day of my work.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy being on the road, the journey was well worth every mile, visiting Damex, and IAMX, a meeting to develop a new project that isn’t ready to be unveiled yet, attending Metaverse conference and meeting lots of like-minded people at various other locations and events is generally a pleasing part of my work, but having conducted business over zoom/teams/meet for so long now, it somehow feels like getting things done in person is slightly more difficult?
Video calls offer the speed of literally leaping from continent to continent at will. Face to face meetings seem to take longer to plan, run on a lot longer and when you come away you still have to follow everything up in email or message!
What I really like though is the free ranging nature of face to face conversations. They offer the opportunity to really get to understand and connect with the client/supplier/colleague in a way that is lost on zoom.
IAMX is my lead project now taking perhaps as much as 50% of my average day, the deck looks great, the explanation of the project is clear and easy to follow, and there is a real drive to get the first use cases live and in use. Factiiv then takes a lot of my day now, as this is really gathering pace.
I keep my eyes open for other work of course as . One such ad hoc task whilst on the road was closing a funding round for equity in a Peruvian Neo-Bank. Introducing a ‘smart money’ partner to this company was a pleasure and a further round now opens which I am hopeful to fill also.
The crypto investors have taken a beating in the last few weeks, and understandably are ‘hodling’ to a large extent. My attention therefore is turned towards more traditional and institutional connections who are not affected in the same way right now.
I hope to be able to bring news of the ‘secret’ project next post!
Rolling my sleeves up and getting on with things is the format for this month now the bank holiday/jubilee weekend is past us. I think my zoom subscription and calendly link will be utilised a lot this month!