Pioneering People Podcast: Ray Bugg

In this episode of the Pioneering People podcast, Ray Bugg, entrepreneur and the founder and director of DIGIT FYI, talks about his career and thoughts on the startup scene. Growing up in Essex, Ray didn’t aspire to be an entrepreneur. But while working in a catering agency, he was inspired after seeing a job ad for a role in publishing, and landed a job in publishing sales. “It was a complete shape shift from putting someone's dinner in front of them. But I liked it. The earning opportunity was high and it was fundamentally quite interesting as well.” In 2013 Ray launched DIGIT FYI, a stakeholder industry news site with events focusing on ICT and technology. This has allowed the business to go paperless for both its conferences and publishing. Today, he has ten staff working for him and says: “They are as much decision makers in how this business evolves as I am.”