Entrepreneur Stories | The Fineprint of Scaling

What does it take to build a brand when the founder can no longer be everywhere?

Find out by joining host Rasheed Shroff for a live conversation with Scottie Callaghan, the Australian founder of FINEPRINT.

Scottie’s journey runs from world champion barista to Hong Kong entrepreneur. It includes the 3:40am ferry, sleeping on the concrete cafe floor before opening, an initial team of just four, a growing multi-location brand, and the difficult shift from personally controlling every detail to trusting other people with the work he had built.

This is a candid conversation about the slog behind the success, finding and leading the right people, scaling quality, competing with much larger players, funding the next phase and learning when relentless drive becomes a liability.

Entrepreneur Stories is recorded live at Banyan Workspace, Quarry Bay, and is followed by audience Q&A and networking. Limited seats available.

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

• The real price of starting: What it takes to keep going when the business is not yet paying you back and why founder sacrifice needs a limit

• From technician to leader: How Scottie moved from making every coffee himself to trusting managers and building a leadership bench

• Systems without soul loss: How to standardise product and service quality while preserving warmth, personality and community

• Competing differently: How a smaller hospitality brand can create loyalty and local ritual in a market shaped by major chains

• Ambition that lasts: What world-class competition and ultra-endurance sport reveal about discipline, identity, resilience and the danger of becoming blinkered

Event venue & nearby stays

Banyan Workspace, 28號 Hoi Chak Street, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong (SAR)

Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.

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