The Russell Quirk Story – Part 2

“We hired the wrong people at first and spent a million quid, which we then ripped up and had to start again.”

When he started emoov, Quirk says, there was ‘an element of desperation’.

In this second part of our exclusive three-part video series he reveal why,  and he talks candidly about what it was like to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds in funding.

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  1. Hillofwad71

    I guess the dog had the right idea

    Today we learn

    “The dog that barks much is never a good hunter”

     

    Jonny as a fledgling employee saw  Emoov  as  a very successful company because  of the “numbers” ,the people employed and the visitors  arriving asking questions  when we learn  the reality was Quirk was caught up in a series of money raises without a coherent plan and ever wild  increasing projections to hook the fish  now  competing with other offers for  money.

     

    The “crack cocaine”of money raises .No doubt Headphones is a consummate salesman winging it riding on a smile and a shoeshine

    If you define “success”as reeling the money in  he achieved that certainly  but in the summer of 2018 a step too far .

     

    Having exhausted the seasoned investors,running on empty. In the summer of 2018 as one last death roll  he  made a determined  pitch   to the low hanging fruit investors on   Crowdcube

    Promises are worse than  lies with fanciful projections on the pitch

    He gave vain  hope  when Emoov  on the backfoot  when they couldn’t see a few months ahead   although investors told the investment was for  marketing and an IPO .That was unforgiveable

    Now confirmed  that  the company  was only profitable for a fleeting moment when small scale  before the portal charges increased from  £700 pcm !

     

    I don’t know where I am going but I am on my way

     

    Lessons learned

    Wasted a £1m on the tech and that he confirms  that  he didn’t possess the skillsets  to run this all by himself and now wishes he had a partner -fair enough .

    I bet his investors wished they knew that

    “If you think hiring a professional is expensive wait til you hire an amateur”  Red Adair

     

    The only plan  being to exit at some stage and cop a lot of cash .Now wishing  I guess that he should have stuck to cars

    Also we learn that  LSL dodged the bullet

    The new owners of Emoov .Headphones says

     

    “Mashrooom ! £300k  was it ,I think  I  don’t think they know quite what  they think they bought” smirks Quirk  implying  Emoov was a bag of spanners  which I guess is  an appropriate epitath

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    1. Countrybumpkin

      Hounds do make the finest music in the countryside when onto a good scent 🙂 unfortunately Rusty lost the scent. Agents slate emoove a bit like when Sugar went down with amstrad and his jewellers (name escapes me right now Gold…) Thousands lost jobs but he has bounced back bigger and better and now helps people strive in business. These videos are not particularly interesting but honest. RQ you are not quite ready for an autobiography but keep believing …

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      1. Hillofwad71

        The subtle difference of course is Sugar exited Amstrad profitably  for £125m to BskyB in 2007  having enjoyed
        years of substantial  profits from  first listing in 1980 .That is far from going down . 
         
        Sugar  a self-starter from a council flat in E London and a market stall  whilst Quirk heralds from a family history steeped in estate agency 

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        1. Countrybumpkin

          If you knew the family you would know that they were workers not shirkers.
          I am not sticking up for him and the reference to Sugar was more about the colossal job losses at the time. We always have said emoove were not proper estate agents and therefore the people who worked there were only trying to make a fast buck because they either didn’t ‘know’ the business or had failed to make the grade in agency.
          signing off now to go and do my ‘proper’ job 🙂

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          1. Hillofwad71

             No  mention or accusation of shirking Certainly not gulity of that   
             
                “We always have said Emoov were not PROPER ESTATE AGENTS  and therefore the people who worked there were only trying to make a fast buck because they either didn’t ‘know’ the business or had failed to make the grade in agency.”
             
              Then  that  begs the question why the industry has  participated in enabling  Quirk  to become in the public eye  an expert albeit unqualified  whose advice is keenly sought .
             
               Rinse and repeat KW

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  2. Cyberpunk35

    who is Jonny Palmer?

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  3. smile please

    Bloke loses £29 million of other peoples money.

    Should be locked up.

    I could say more but we all have a hundred times.

    Quite simply the guy is a S**T.

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  4. Woodentop

    Just goes to prove RQ hasn’t a clue, wasn’t a success and is given far too much media airtime as if he is an expert. Expert in what!!!

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    1. smile please

      Failure.

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  5. Simon Bradbury

    I find this whole story to be fascinating. I’m very impressed that someone can cope with so much pressure and keep fighting!

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    1. AlwaysAnAgent

      Really? How desperately sad you are.

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  6. GPL

     

     

    I keep pressing “Flush” however this t*** just won’t go awaaaaaaaay!

     

     

     

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