How we built a business out of recession - chapter 23 - we got married
This is the 23rd chapter about CitNOW, the company started from a kitchen table in Winnersh, Berkshire. If you’d like to read from the beginning, here’s a link to chpt 1. Each chapter is a 5-minute read. It’s an early draft of a book.
CitNOW was founded by Andrew Howells and Donna Barradale in 2005, although the company was only registered in 2008. In February 2018, we sold the company to Tenzing, a UK private equity company. It has been sold again since.
At the bottom of the hill from The Crispin, a Wokingham pub we’d recently exited, the road was strangely empty and quiet of traffic. It was late. The stillness only added to my growing embarrassment.
I strained to clear my foggy brain, the ill effects of too much beer, while the three of them stood patiently waiting, each now tethered to their overnight bags, wondering how long this would take.
I tried to fill the awkward silence, which descended quickly after my abrupt halt, the sort brisk walking tour guides take on a tight schedule before pontificating on an architectural gem, surely missed if you hadn’t bought their tour.
