Definely named in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the United Kingdom

Since I was young, I have always known I wanted to own a business and be an entrepreneur. It was this sense of destiny that gave me the courage to leave my stable legal career at Freshfields, an international law firm and one of the prestigious ‘Magic Circle’ law firms in the UK, in the fall of 2017 and move back home to my parents' house a few months later.

This decision felt like such a risk at the time and a huge step back in my life and career. If things didn’t work out, would I (or even could I) go back into law? Before you start a new business, you know it will be tough, but I don’t think you can fully prepare for what is to come. Luckily, with hindsight, I can safely say this was one of the best decisions I have yet to make. If you had told me the day I left my legal career, that fast forward to today, I’d be running a fast growing technology scale-up, with investments from the likes of Microsoft, Google and Sequoia, I probably would not have believed you.

One thing that I can safely say is that Definely would not exist if I hadn’t met Feargus (Learn about how Definely started here). Feargus and I met while we were both lawyers at Freshfields, and let me tell you, Feargus helped me a lot during the early days of my legal career. We became good friends, and the more I got to know him, the more I was fascinated by how he was able to do the same sort of work as me (reviewing long, complex legal documents) with his visual impairment. For those who don’t know Feargus, he is registered blind.