A biography for Ben Francishasn’t been written yet.
“Inclusivity is super-important.”
“If I don't go to the gym enough, I'm not as good at my job. I'm miserable at home. I'm not as good a human being if I'm not regularly in the gym, on a structure, making progress.”
“We're super-inclusive, super-caring, super-transparent.”
“My early Villa memories would be John Gregory as manager. I remember the LDV logos on shirts and Dion Dublin was my favourite player.”
“My nan made curtains, so she taught me how to sew. I remember thinking we had 10 orders to do, and to make 12-15 products it would take most of the day. But it was so much fun learning.”
“I made four apps and six different websites, all around fitness. The seventh was Gymshark.”
“There will be times when people will fail and you'll think, 'God, I shouldn't have trusted them with this.' But if you hire people you genuinely trust, respect and you know are better than you, then over the long run they'll do a better job than you.”
“I get to wake up every day and do exactly what I want to do with really cool people, I get to see parts of the world I never thought I would see and I get to connect with people I never thought I would get to connect with.”
“I don't read loads of books, but I talk to and learn a lot from many different people I encounter and that's been completely game-changing.”
“What we've built is a community-led, purpose-driven, direct to consumer model. It's where the future of brands will go.”