Ben Francis
15 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2025 by Ben Francis · across every show →
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Francis avoided imposter syndrome by personally doing every early job at Gymshark
“I don't think I ever did. That's not to say that I wasn't nervous, but I never had a feeling of imposter syndrome because, I mean, there was a point where I'd basically done every job, whether it's packing orders or customer support or product design, or I sor…”
Nov 17, 2025 negative
Gymshark's first women's apparel range failed completely, prompting professional design hires
“We did our first women range, women's range, and it was terrible. It was absolutely terrible. No one wanted it. It looked terrible. It fitted terrible. It just didn't work. And it was at that point where we realized that if we're going to build, if we're going…”
Nov 17, 2025
Gymshark pivoted to handmade apparel by purchasing a sewing machine and printer
“Now at that point, we then bought a sewing machine, we brought a screen printer, we'd saved the money for it, and we started to basically to try to hand make, hand print our own clothing, basically, and that, that, that was where it all really started to kick …”
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 positive
Gymshark's product strategy focused entirely on physique-accentuating gym apparel
“We'd always found that the product that performed the best was that
Physique accentuating product, both for men's and women's at this point, and that's, that was our real sort of bullseye, and that's what we just continued to double down on.”
Nov 17, 2025
Gymshark employees tried to play the founder and new CEO against each other
“If people didn't get the answer they wanted from Steve, then they would come to me, or the opposite way around, so they'd sort of try and play almost like mom off dad sort of thing. So our relationship was really important.”
Nov 17, 2025
Gymshark co-founder Lewis Morgan stepped down between £10M and £20M revenue
“So, so Lewis actually left the business in terms of his active involvement in the business. It was around We were doing a, it was somewhere between 10 and twenty million in revenue, so Lewis actually left the day-to-day of the business then,”
Nov 17, 2025
Nov 17, 2025 neutral
Francis flipped UK license plates from £300 to £3,000 as a teenager
“We would buy them. So it wasn't particularly sophisticated. We would literally, they would come through and you could buy them for 300 pounds or something, but you could sell them for two or 3000. So what we do is we'd sort of see what was coming up for releas…”
Nov 17, 2025
Gymshark's co-founders split over whether to hire management and scale aggressively
“My perspective was very much like, I was really happy to roll the dice time and time again, and just keep growing and growing and growing the business, and to bring in more people More management types at the time and build the business from that perspective. …”