If We Can, You Can

Author:

Louise Allcroft

Business:

Complement Genomics Ltd.

Published:

10/11/2008 11:14:00

I started my company as a result of an incredibly frustrating meeting with my ex-employer. It reached the point where I thought, we could do things a hell of a lot better than this, so I’m going to go out and do it.

My current business partner said to me at the time, do you think you can? I said yes, and the next thing I knew, within a couple of months the company was formed. It was a bit like fools treading where angels feared to go!

I’d never thought about starting up my own company; but that conversation was the trigger that I needed. Some people just need that push to suddenly think, ah, I can do this, and I will. We formed the company in 2000 on April Fool’s Day, as luck would have it.