"I realised that over this time I had become increasingly tired and jaded by the various attempts to actually do things around this idea, really dodgy festivals, publicly funded events that were plain embarassing, funding decisions that seemed mental, fed up about things that I cared about closing or mysteriously burning down, getting really shit advice from the various unqualified expert advisers I was introduced to, loads of talented folk reaching a certain level and then leaving, people just about managing to get cool stuff off the ground but being hampered rather than helped, weird planning decisions, scheme after scheme aimed at this ‘sector’ as if a theatre and a software company have things in common. Of course there was all of the good stuff, but these things got pretty tiring and I realised that I just wanted to go and do a proper startup and stop messing around."

Stef Lewandowski | Create something every day