In an old cowshed in deepest darkest west Wales, some of the world’s most influential people gather to share ideas once a year. It’s not an exaggeration - we’re talking about people like Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the internet, Alex Chung, who created Giphy, Perry Chen, the man behind Kickstarter and even Colin Greenwood from rock band Radiohead.
The talks are recorded and, to date, have been watched more than 150 million times. The man behind it all - David Hieatt - owns the aforementioned cowshed in Cardigan and tells me tickets sell out in under an hour.
“It’s the most connected cowshed in the world,” he chuckled. David is a doer so it's apt that these talks are called the Do Lectures. In fact, one could argue that he's pretty influential in his own right. Together with his wife Clare, David set up first Howies and then Hiut Jeans, which is still going strong in an unexpectedly large factory in Cardigan.
