Who have the BBC got to front their new “CEO Secrets” series? Model, actor, and “entrepreneur” Lily Cole has been offering her “tips for business success”:
“Believe in what you’re doing and know why you’re doing it, so it’s very hard to run a business, and there’s going to be up and down moments, and in those down moments what pulls you through is, you know, inner conviction of knowing why you’re doing what you’re doing and believing in it.”
Inspiring stuff.
In other news, Lily’s taxpayer-subsidised social network Impossible.com has reported losses of £256,000 in 2015 and £250,000 in 2014. That’s despite taking a huge £200,000 grant from the Cabinet Office in 2013. The site achieved just 45,000 visitors last month. Please, Lily, tell us your secret…
#LuvviesForLeave Don't Let the EU "F**k with Your Future" Keira Knightley video pic.twitter.com/L0dW6oN4lq
— LuvviesForLeave (@LeaveLuvvies) June 15, 2016
Keira Knightley is calling on young fans to take back control and “stop others f*cking with your future.”
#LuvviesForLeave Don't Let the EU "F**k with Your Future" Lily Cole pic.twitter.com/LVhf0WqgrX
— LuvviesForLeave (@LeaveLuvvies) June 15, 2016
Meanwhile, model and actress Lily Cole is supporting bringing sovereignty back to Britain, showing just how flexible our options would be post-Brexit. The “Luvvies for Leave” campaign can be followed here
Eyebrows were raised when millionaire supermodel Lily Cole was awarded £200,000 of taxpayers’ money in 2013 to fund her “altruism-based social network” Impossible.com. The doll-faced entrepreneur spent her share of a £10 million Cabinet Office fund called “Innovation in Giving” to develop an unholy mash-up between freecycle and Cragislist, where users can offer things to other people in exchange for a thank you. The “gift economy” didn’t catch on…
So what does a self-styled tech-vixen do when she still has government cash burning a hole in her pocket and a desolate wasteland of a website that needs to keep going for the sake of keeping up appearances? It seems that Impossible is now focusing on beefing up it’s blog content, with recipes for split plea soup, articles called “The Importance of Connecting with your Heart” and more:
Rebranding meditation as sitting… http://t.co/lvDW9iMnIQ via @impossible
— lily cole (@lilycole) February 5, 2015
Austerity? What austerity?