Speaking

Book me
to speak

Everything I would tell your room I have done myself, in the last three years. Keynote, fireside or Q&A, fifteen minutes to an hour.

Where I have
spoken

Two events, four slots, both Alibaba CoCreate. I entered the first. They invited me back to the second.

If you would rather read it from somebody who is not me, here is what the press wrote about both of those.

All first hand, all from the last three years. Any of these works as a keynote or folded into a fireside.

Selling a physical product at scale, as a teenager

Over a hundred thousand units, mostly through TikTok Shop and a Shopify store I run myself. Fifteen thousand orders inside a single day at the peak.
Why revenue is not the number that matters

My best month took £445,000 and lost money. I can take a room through the per-unit maths line by line, because I had to do it across 34,000 units first.
What happens when the platform breaks

An integration failed quietly and hid £61,000 of orders. I could not trade for ten weeks, in the only season a cooling towel sells.
Running a creator programme

Six hundred creators briefed and paid on what they sold, not on what got seen. Two hundred million views in one summer, almost none of it filmed by me.
Getting something made, and defending it

Three years of factory relationships since I was thirteen, customs codes learned the week a shipment was stuck in them, and a trademark I filed myself.
Doing it while you were still at school

Eight businesses that went nowhere, two thousand orders packed on a school night, and ten GCSEs in the middle of it. I am careful how I tell that part: I am not telling anybody else to.

A transcript is a worse answer than ten seconds of footage, so here is the footage.

Everything an organiser normally has to email and wait for, up front. I am sixteen, so the contracts answer is in there too.

The talk itself: I call it The Two Versions. It opens on the story as it got written up, then puts the version the press release left out on the screen next to it. It is what I did on the main stage in Los Angeles.
Format and run time: Keynote, fireside, Q&A or a workshop. Fifteen minutes to an hour, and I would rather do twenty minutes properly than forty padded out.
Where I travel from: Essex, with an adult. I have flown to Los Angeles twice to do this, so wherever your event is, it is probably not the hard version.
What it costs: No set fee. A sixth form and a conference are not the same conversation, and nor are an hour down the road and two days with a flight. Tell me your budget and I will say straight away whether it works.
What I need in the room: A microphone and a screen. I bring my own slides and a towel I can soak on stage.
Contracts and invoicing: CoolTowel LTD, registered in England and Wales, company number 16255115. I am under eighteen, so the accounts and registrations are in my father’s name and he signs anything contractual. You invoice the company, not a teenager.
Who books me: Business and founder audiences, and schools or universities. A room of people twice my age is the normal case, not the exception.
What I will not do: The version where it all worked out. The record month that lost money is in the talk, because that is the half an audience can actually use.

Tell me about the event and I will come back with specifics, including what it would cost.