'We were told we could make more money with the old model, but it's a gap in the market'

"I’m glad I’ve set up this firm with two other business partners. Credit to folks who do this by themselves. We all seem to have a good spread of skills. We’ve got people who enjoy the business generation work, we’ve got people who enjoy the compliance work.

"We’re all learning. We’re in a really good place to grow now. We’ve got the business live in a short space of time. What we seem to be talking a lot about are our learnings from setting up.

"When we’re in a position to hire it feels right to get people in at an early stage and bring them on that journey with us.

damian.fantato@ft.com