Bobby Lane is a British entrepreneur, chartered accountant and CEO of Factotum. He has spent 30+ years building businesses, and he says the biggest growth killer is the founder who won’t let go.
In this episode of The Charlotte Business Podcast, host George sits down with Bobby to talk about why he left the UK to build a US business in Charlotte, NC, how to stop being the bottleneck in your own company, and why execution beats advice every time.
Bobby explains why the UK and US business mindsets are so different, why he chose Charlotte over New York, Miami and Chicago, and why “talking about it” doesn’t grow a business while doing it does.
Bobby Lane is a British entrepreneur, Chartered Accountant and founder and CEO of Factotum, a fast-growing multi-disciplinary outsourcing business helping SMEs and scale-ups turn advice into action across finance, people, recruitment, marketing, technology and strategy. With more than 30 years’ experience as an accountant, CFO and business leader, he has built award-winning outsourcing businesses, contributed to media including The Times, The Mirror and BBC Radio London, and is a regular speaker and industry judge. Now expanding Factotum into the US, Bobby’s philosophy is simple: others talk, we execute.
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