Notion Capital

Andreas Brenner, the founder and CEO of Avrios, shares his COVID experiences of making the tough calls to build a better future for the business: this experience entailed a massive mind-shift from "growth at all costs" to "cash runway and certainty is King.” We are now far more focused and as a result we've become tremendously more efficient.Highlights:- I took the philosophical decision early on to act like a more conservative CEO, to protect the long term survival of the business.- We had to build a plan that had sufficient room for mistakes and uncertainty.-Now it’s all about focus and now I recognise that being more focused isn’t just a factor to survive, but potentially a factor for us to win even bigger as we come out of this.-What has definitely happened is that the whole market has aligned in the short term around priorities of cost reduction or efficiency.-But long term there are some very important trends that will be accelerated.Andreas Brenner is the founder of Avrios, the fleet management and aut