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.