"I travelled across Asia for four months to prove that I could run this company from my laptop."

Our business consultant who specialises in recruitment for the CDMO & pharmaceutical space, Tatenda Musakanya, sits down with the founder and Managing Director of Norman Health, Jan-Wilem Eleveld.What’s interesting about Norman Health is their set-up. Everything is done from Jan’s laptop.Despite this, the company still have all your traditional back-office functions like marketing, finance and so on. But they’re carried out by multiple contractors, meaning Jan is the only official Norman Health member of staff.Tatenda caught up with him to ask: what inspired him to give up his C-level status and start at fresh? What the difficulties are there in running a company single-handed? And how has his business model coped amid a global pandemic?If you'd like to speak to Tatenda about the podcast, email him at [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.