In this conversation, Ben speaks to Stephen Whitworth, co-founder and CEO of incident.io. Stephen began his career at Hailo, Co-founded Ravelin and joined Monzo early on. Since starting incident with Pete and Chris, Stephen has gone on to raise over £34 million dollars at the date of this recording, from notable people like Monzo’s Co-founders Tom Blomfield and Jonas Templestein, Monzo’s lead investor Eileen Burbidge - the CEO of GoCardless Hiroki Takeuchi, the CTO of Loom Vinay Hiremath, Instagram’s co-founder Mike Kieger - and a seed and Series A Led by Index Ventures.

Yet, the conversation touches on very little of that. They explore Stephens personal journey. How he discovered Engineering. The way he approaches the ambiguity of his work. How cross pollination between different disciplines provide him with unique insights and how the sense of freedom engineering has given him - has led him.

Stephen talks Ben through a model for augmenting quantitative data with our gut feel in decision-making, and Stephen talks with candour about why effective prioritization is, by necessity, a painful process.