“Yeah, it was brutal, a very, very difficult period of my life. I’d hired a lot of people who didn't have technology experience. What I actually did was I set them and the business up for failure.”

In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Jeremy Hastings, Founder & Managing Director of both Hutly and Bondable, on being fired from his own company and successfully returning to transform the real estate industry after working on his inner chief.

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After a career in mining at Rio Tinto, Jeremy experienced his first business success through a gelato shop, which sold 16 tonnes in its second year.

Following an unsavoury experience with a crooked real estate agent, Jeremy made it his life’s mission to leverage technology to power a more positive, transparent, and human-centred real estate industry, creating Hutly as the world’s only Living Contracts platform and a place where all parties can transact real estate with trust.

He is also the founder of Bondable, Australia’s first subscription-based residential bond service, which launched in 2024.

Jeremy went to the University of Canberra, where he studied a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Management. He also has three postgraduate qualifications – a Graduate Certificate in Community Relations (Resources Sector) from the University of Queensland, a Masters of Mining Engineering from UNSW and a Masters of Commercial Law from the University of Melbourne.

In this episode we talk about:

✅ How an accidental guinea pig brood was seven-year-old Jeremy’s first foray into entrepreneurship

✅ Successfully negotiating the rights to IP he created at Rio Tinto, that he wanted to commercialise after leaving the mining giant

✅ Being fired as CEO from his own company, and returning after working deeply on his inner chief where he is now transforming the real estate industry, and

✅ Recognising that there are different types of CEO that are suited to the various stages of a business.

Deal hope,

Greg

Connecting with Jeremy Hastings

You can connect with Jeremy via LinkedIn.

Books and resources

Good to Great - by Jim Collins
Team Topologies - by Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais

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