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In this the third instalment of RadEO we interview Justin Drennan about his entrepreneurial journey. We talk about fall back in love your business and how to really make a difference in the lives of your people. Check out his company at https://www.parcelninja.co.za/\n\nJustin Drennan is the CEO and co-founder of Parcelninja. Parcelninja is a cloud based warehousing and delivery service geared towards South African e-commerce businesses. The business provides small to large online retailers with cutting edge plug-and-play integration into Parcelninja's warehousing facilities and delivery networks. This first of it's kind solution provides real-time reporting, stock visibility through the entire fulfilment journey, allowing ecommerce business owners to focus on selling products, while Parcelninja ensures customers receive their orders.\n\nJustin Drennan also co-founded WantItAll.co.za. WantItAll.co.za is an online shop based in Johannesburg, South Africa that sells over 14 million products. WantItAll has over 25 employees and is ranked as the third largest webstore in South Africa in terms of sales and the second largest in terms of visitors as per Alexa Internet rankings, with 200 000 customers and over 150 000 products shipped from the US to South Africa.\n\nJustin enjoys Pina Coladas. And getting caught in the rain.\n\nJustin Drennan from Parcelninja\nTell us about your EO journey 1:47\n\u201cOverestimate what you can do in 1 year and over and underestimate what you can do in 10 years\u201d 3:14\nWhat your business does and what your role is? 4:15\nParcelninja was a system developed to solve a problem that you were having your business wantitall.co.za explain how this happened 5:05\nWho would be one of your customers for Parcelninja? 6:47\nDo you help start-ups scale 7:40\nCan you tell the listeners about an AHA moment that didn\u2019t go the way you expected but actually turned out better? 9:00\nHow do you split your time between multiple entities 14:50\nForum is a board of directors on your life \u2013 group of people that you share learnings once a month 16:41\nDo you have a good way of handing a business over to people run it? 18:08\nHave you committed a certain amount of time to wantitall 19:36\nWhen Groupon crashed how did it affect your business? 21:26\nDo you think the e-commerce market in South Africa is going to keep growing or is it static 24:37\nIs there scope for the different LSM in the e-commerce space? 25:54\nWRT Groupon issue \u2013 did anything in your forum offer you help 27:19\nWhat advice would you give all entrepreneurs? \u201cOverestimate what you can do in 1 year and over and underestimate what you can do in 10 years\u201d 29:00\nWhat does success look like to you? 30:00\n"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Warren Rustand\nHow do you reduce theft in your warehouse 36:00\nTeach staff how to manage their money 38:45\nChallenge \u2013 make a small difference in the people who work for you lives 40:45