A Different Perspective with Houman Ashrafzadeh, Co-Founder of Urban Greens and Founder of Padium

A Different Perspective

In this week's episode Nick talks to Houman Ashrafzadeh

Houman is a serial entrepreneur with diverse experiences in business, finance, and management consulting, Houman has developed a unique skill set and a problem-solving approach to business challenges. Houman has current roles as Co-Founder of Urban Greens and CEO & Founder of Padium.

Nick and Houman discuss his career start moving from Sweden to London to study and Houman’s move into finance and brokering. Houman later found that he needed to strike out on his own setting up his brokerage firm 360 in 2013. Now in 2024 Houman partners in Urban Greens, a salad bar franchise, with 4 locations across London. Recently, Houman launched Padium, a pay and play club for padel in Canary Wharf. Padel was invented in the 1960s in Mexico and is a racquet game that combines the tennis scoring system with the tactical ricochet shots of squash.

Houman's book choice was The Lean Startup: How Constant Innovation Creates Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries.

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