As a founder you set out to change the way things have been done before, no matter what the chances. You believe in an ideal and will do whatever you can to make it happen. Founders Pledge, to me, is an ideal. This is the way things should be done. Making the pledge is a commitment to working towards making that belief happen and by pledging together we can make that ideal a norm.
Ross Bailey is the founder & CEO of Appear Here, the leading online marketplace for short-term retail space. Based on the concept that renting commercial property should be as easy as booking a hotel room, Appear Here’s mission is to make retail space accessible to everyone. Hailed one of ‘the most disruptive companies of 2014’, by The Financial Times & chosen as one of Wired’s ‘100 Hottest Start Ups’, Appear Here has become the go-to destination to rent retail space. With 10,000 retailers & some of the world's biggest property companies signed up exclusively. Customers include Apple, Google & Marc Jacobs. Ross has been recently listed as one of the Evening Standard’s most influential Londoners & Business Insider’s 50 coolest people in tech.