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🗣️ “When you’re building a business in this century it has to be sustainable by default,” says Murvah Iqbal 📦 , who founded her parcel-delivery company, HIVED, in 2021. It now has a fleet of about 250 electric vehicles that deliver around London, with Asos, Zara and Nespresso among the retailers using it. Iqbal’s entrepreneurial and competitive spirit stems from her childhood. She worked on the branding side of her uncle’s diner chain, Archie’s, as a teenager and played football for Manchester City Women’s youth teams. But it was a trip to San Francisco, where she visited Google and Tesla, that opened her eyes to big business: “I learnt how you could build culturally defining companies and no one really cares about your age and your experience.” Her advice? “Starting is the hardest part, so just start and start small. I began by delivering two parcels a day on my bike.” Murvah features on The Sunday Times’s annual Young Power List, celebrating the 30 most powerful people under 30 in the UK. Read the full interview below 👇 https://lnkd.in/ejsyaQMe