Helo!* I’m Simon Coggle, co-founder and Disruptor-in-chief of Caliburnus Automotive, the start-up aiming to beat Bugatti to build the first 300mph production car.
Now, if you think running Wales’s most exciting supercar company means a life of schmoozing millionaires, and rebuffing the advances of Europe’s least inhibited supermodels, you’ll be as surprised as I was to discover it involves a whole lot of hard work, tough decisions and heated meetings with strong-minded investors.
For example, this week we were treated to a welcome, but surprise, visit from Dimitri, one of our biggest, and indeed widest, backers.
“Coggle, I see you hiding behind water cooler. Answer door or I smash door down and cut your bloody feet of,” he greets me with his customary ribald humour.
Once I retrieve my biro…