{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"20VC: Farfetch Founder, Jos\u00e9 Neves on Zen Buddhism and Its Impact on Leadership Mentality, Why Head vs Heart is Not the Right Way To Think About Decision-Making & How To Work Through Self-Doubt and Identity as a CEO","description":" Jos\u00e9 Neves is the Founder, CEO & Chairman @ Farfetch, the #1 destination for high-end fashion offering the world's Greatest Selection of Luxury. Now a public company, Jos\u00e9 has raised over $1.7Bn with Farfetch from some of the biggest names including Alibaba, Richemont, JD.com, Index Ventures and DST to name a few. Prior to Farfetch, Jos\u00e9 has been involved in the fashion start-up world since the mid-1990s when he launched footwear business SWEAR. Jos\u00e9 later founded SIX London, a fashion licensing and wholesale company selling to 600 retailers worldwide. Finally, in 2001 Jos\u00e9 opened the renowned boutique bstore, which won the British Fashion Award for Retailer of the Year in 2006. In Today\u2019s Episode with Jos\u00e9 Neves You Will Learn: 1.) How Jos\u00e9 made his way from creating footwear brands in the days of the Spice Girls and cyberpunk to changing the fashion industry itself with Farfetch? 2.) Why does Zen Buddhism resonate with Jos\u00e9 in such a profound way? How does his adoption of it impact his style of leadership today? How does Jos\u00e9 deal with the loneliness of being a CEO? What does Jos\u00e9 mean when he says the most successful leaders, "know how to fall and how to get up"? How has Jos\u00e9 responded to his greatest failures? 3.) How does Jos\u00e9 think about decision-making today? What are the biggest misconceptions people have with regards to effective decision-making? Why is head vs heart the wrong way to think about decision-making? How does Jos\u00e9 adopt a sense of emotional detachment when making decisions? What works? What does not work? 4.) How does Jos\u00e9 evaluate his relationship to money today? In what ways has it changed over time? What does Jos\u00e9 believe that others do not believe when it comes to risk and risk management? How does Jos\u00e9 balance the demands of Wall St and investors with the knowledge that everything is inherently uncertain? 5.) Does Jos\u00e9 ever feel self-doubt? How does he manage it? In what ways does he advise earlier stage founders to grapple with their own self-doubt? How does Jos\u00e9 think about tying one's own identity to their company? Why is this so dangerous? Item\u2019s Mentioned In Today\u2019s Episode with Jos\u00e9 Neves Jos\u00e9\u2019s Favourite Book: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World As always you can follow Harry and The Twenty Minute VC on Twitter here! ","author_name":"The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch","author_url":"http:\/\/www.thetwentyminutevc.com\/","html":"