Phil Hewinson (@philhewinson) 's Twitter Profile
Phil Hewinson

@philhewinson

Founder & CEO, Would You Rather Be

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I'm cycling from Buckingham Palace to Windsor Castle to raise money for The Prince's Trust. They support the most marginalised young people in the UK. Would you dig deep and donate to my Just Giving page: justgiving.com/2019PalacetoPa… . Thanks so much!!!

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Over the past 5 months I’ve been working on a web app to help people find a satisfying career – it’s called “Would You Rather Be”. Read more about it on my latest blog post ... philhewinson.com/2019/10/31/wou…

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United by a shared mission of #MentalHealth, #ZincAcademy is a programme that will help unlock & accelerate the personal impact of those who want to solve the toughest societal issues, not limited to starting-up new ventures. Info & apply here: zinc.vc/Academy

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One of the projects I've been working on over the past year is this chatbot to help protect people in Africa from malaria. It's fun and for a great cause! I'd love it if you tried it out ... m.me/malariachallen…

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I've spent the last 8 months working part-time with a startup called Soultime who help Christians with their emotional and spiritual health. Here's a blog post I wrote about the work I did to help set them up for scalable and sustainable impact: philhewinson.com/2020/02/06/sou…

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Heart warming update on the work Bill and Melinda Gates are doing through their foundation to tackle global health, education, climate change and gender inequality - gatesnotes.com/2020-Annual-Le…

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Brilliant update from our government on the Coronavirus and the thoughtful approach we're taking. Everyone should watch this as we need a unified effort to get through this together

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I've been working on an initiative with a group of technologists to try to ensure that nobody is left isolated during this pandemic. We just launched: CoronaFriend.com Would love for you to try it out, share feedback and spread the word! Thanks!

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I'm really proud to announce that @woulduratherb are one of the 20 finalists of the @NestaChallenges & Department for Education #CareerTechChallenge Prize! Excited to develop our product over the next 9 months to help people discover, get into and flourish in their dream career!

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I just raised £550k for my startup, Would You Rather Be! I've shared the full journey in my latest blog post: philhewinson.com/2020/05/15/rai…

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I'm hiring Employee #1 at my startup @woulduratherb! Our mission is to get people their dream job. I'm looking for someone who is motivated by this social mission, really smart and hungry to grow. It's an exciting, varied and fun role. Interested? ... wouldyouratherbe.com/employee-no1

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A fun interview-style blog post, published by Forward Partners, on my career so far and why I'm working on helping people with their careers: forwardpartners.com/blog/investing…

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My core focus over the past 10 weeks has been on product discovery. We’ve talked to 50+ users and customers and synthesised our learnings to figure out what products and features we should build next ... philhewinson.com/2020/07/31/pro…

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We ran 15 product experiments over the past 6 weeks. And most of them failed! If you want to know why startups are so hard, and want the nitty gritty insights into what life is really like trying to figure this stuff out, read on! ... philhewinson.com/2020/10/13/pro…

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We recently released a cool new feature at Would You Rather Be called Pathways. These are hyper-personalised to-do lists showing you exactly what you need to do to get into your dream career, with time cost and funding information. philhewinson.com/2021/02/25/pat…

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I am delighted to announce that @woulduratherb has been awarded the runner-up prize of £80,000 by @NestaChallenges and Department for Education as part of their CareerTech Challenge! #careerhappiness youtu.be/8lWMhDVy8iY

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We finally had our first paying customers at Would You Rather Be over the past few months, and recently reached our 1,000th customer. The last 7 months have been one of the most intense for me - read about it here: philhewinson.com/2021/09/28/fir…

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This is not something I have shared publicly before, but here goes! This is a story all about how the company we founded 8 years ago was re-birthed during the pandemic. How we turned a Hardware co. into a SaaS co. How revenue went to $0.. To now having over 130 B2B customers

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Would You Rather Be has been acquired by the Learning Curve Group! It’s been quite a journey since I founded the company 3 years ago. I've written my 16th blog post, which will take you through the ups and downs of the past year! philhewinson.medium.com/would-you-rath… #acquisition #edtech