008 - The Importance of Criticism and Failure

08/11/20 • 56 min

Today’s conversation is hitting closer to home as I invited my brother Pieter de Villiers, co-founder and Chief Product Officer for Macanta Software Ltd, to have a chat. Pieter grew up playing various instruments and ended up being a professional drummer. He is now running a successful company. But he had to travel a long way to get to this point in his life. In this episode Pieter talks inspiringly about the importance of failure, the creative power of criticism and the need for both musicians and business people to be open to the opportunities which are imbedded in change.
https://www.macanta.org/

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Matthew Johnson is a cellist and photographer. In our chat he shares how his experience in music is influencing his work as photographer and how networking has helped his portfolio to grow, connecting him to various of the UK’s most prestigious classical music festivals.
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