Tomorrow's World with Emyr Afan
PortraitEmyr AfanTomorrow's World with Emyr Afan
Emyr Afan co-founded Afanti Media, then known as Avanti, in 1995 with his wife Mair. Over nearly 30 years he has helped build it into one of Wales's leading independent TV producers, with credits including Songs of Praise, The Perfect Pitch, Life Drawing Live! and Luke Evans: Showtime!.
Tomorrow's WorldDo Radio
What we talked about.
Emyr Afan's conversation is about entrepreneurship as temperament: seeing a thing before it exists and feeling almost compelled to build it. He talks about media, music, Welsh creativity, selling a company, the danger of being ruled by email, and why the sale of a business is not always the ending people imagine.
This episode explores:
- What separates a good idea from the obsession that actually becomes a business?
- How do you know when a creative spark is worth turning into something real?
- Why can selling a company feel more complicated than the success story suggests?
- What did the Blackberry teach early entrepreneurs about being permanently available?
- How do you keep hold of creativity while running a media business with real commercial pressure?
- What comes next when the thing you were told to aim for has already happened?