Keychain founder: You can’t be great without making mistakes – UKTN

Oisin Hanrahan is the founder and chief executive of Keychain, an AI-powered manufacturing platform just recently backed by Tesco, among others, in a £7.5m funding round.

In this week’s Founder in Five Q&A, Hanrahan discusses why it is a founder’s approach to mistakes that means more than trying to be perfect, why shifting mindsets when the business needs it is a great challenge and the importance of trusting your staff.

What advice would you give to a first-time founder?

You can’t be a great founder without making mistakes – you have to approach each mistake as a learning experience and focus on how you can improve as a business professional, and person.

Startups are often a chaotic environment, and the faster you can learn to change, grow and adapt in that chaos the better – you do not really have time for regret or to get upset over how things ‘could have’ gone. Focus on what you can control instead by building good habits over time….