#470 - Athan Didaskalou On Redesigning Luggage

Athan Didaskalou - Chief Strategy Officer for July, Founder and Managing Director of Three Thousand Thieves.

Athan is a business strategist turned entrepreneur. He's worked with some of the biggest businesses in Australia, including Google, Telstra, NAB, and Coles, to assist them with commercial growth strategies, and becoming more human-centric. 

Athan is the founder and managing director of Three Thousand Thieves, a service that curates Melbourne's best artisan coffee and delivers them to the masses via a membership.

Athan is also taking on luggage giants with July, a direct to consumer business that focuses on design and customer service. July is disrupting the legacy luggage industry with their considered travel products, and redesigned way of purchasing.

On today's episode of The Daily Talk Show we discuss: 

- Legacy industries and high barrier to entry products
- SMS marketing strategies
- Customer service
- Audio, sleep and switching off
- The luggage industry
- Investment & business partners
- Knowing your weaknesses
- Being the underdog
- Coaching employees
- Being distracted by other ventures

Athan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/athand/

July on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/july/

Three Thousand Thieves on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/3000thieves/

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