Founder CEO of Growth&Co - Advising 300+ Startups Including Attio, Granola and Fyxer

Joseph Fitzgibbon, Founder and CEO of Growth and Company, has advised over 300 startups including Attio, Granola and Fyxer AI.

But his career didn't start with wins. It started with being fired three times in a row.

In this episode of Master Your Mistakes, Joseph breaks down how getting pushed out of Diageo six weeks before his wedding, surviving redundancy at Grays, and being let go from Clare Mechanic ultimately led him to build a recruitment business that runs on 100% inbound.

We cover the brutal truth about why most CMO hires fail, how to ask the right questions when joining a new company, why "comparison is the thief of joy," and how AI is reshaping recruitment from the bottom up.

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00:00 — Intro: Joseph Fitzgibbon, founder of Growth and Company

00:58 — From wanting to be a diplomat to consulting to Diageo

03:00 — The first firing: Diageo, ADHD, and a dream job that wasn't

06:51 — Six weeks before the wedding: getting put on a performance plan

09:45 — Gardening leave, the Grays offer, and being thrown in the deep end

13:18 — Why coming in knowing nothing actually worked in his favour

16:33 — The Grays adjustment: from £50M strategy projects to £100 marketing costs

19:57 — The lesson: stop guessing, just ask what your manager actually wants

22:00 — Firing number two and joining Cluno Mechanic: a job radically different from advertised

25:00 — The "bull in a china shop" mistake and over-correcting after Graze

27:00 — Firing number three and the blessing in disguise that launched Growth and Company

30:00 — Why most CMO hires fail and the broken state of recruitment

32:20 — The first deals, the pandemic boom, and stumbling into recruitment

35:00 — Building a 100% inbound recruitment business by controlling supply

37:30 — How AI is decimating junior and middle-management roles

40:30 — Final advice: comparison is the thief of joy

43:00 — Joseph's favourite quotation

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