Adam Milgrom

Giant Leap was one of our first intuitional checks. Adam backed me when I was still finding my feet, when I didn’t have many of the answers and wasn’t pretending otherwise. From the beginning, he helped shape our thinking on the product side: how to test with early adopters, what to prioritise, where we were fooling ourselves. He didn’t hand us a playbook. He asked the questions that forced us to think / build our own. One moment has stayed with me. During our pivots, I’d built a feature I was certain would move the needle. Adam told me in the politest way that it wouldn’t. He was right - we found it didn’t unlock revenues as we had expected. Adam has always been an excellent sparring partner - with each conversation I learnt something new and It changed how I was building. That’s what good investors do. They correct at the right moment, with enough trust built that you can actually hear it. To this day, I can pick up the phone and get critical, honest feedback. That relationship wasn’t delivered with the cheque. It was built over time, through the hard parts of building a startup. I consider myself fortunate to have giant leap in my tent. “