Failing At School To Building A Multimillion Pound Family Business with Ben Price Heatable
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2024
- So present day I am co-owner of Heatable, which is an online boiler replacement business, solar renewable business. And that's predominantly where my bulk of my focus goes. But we do have as a family a number of other businesses that we all work in. And I think what's, we were speaking earlier on about some of the stuff we've been doing when I was younger and where we are today is very different to where it started. People only ever see the success, they don't see the struggle. So I think that's some of the misconceptions that happen in market of a lot of successful people is that they only see the present day, but my journey's been a long one, even though I'm still quite young.
So how did you start? How did you start from school?
So I went to regular high school, not academic at all. I was pretty good at maths naturally, but didn't get a grade in it. I didn't really get any GCSEs. I got a grade, I think I got an A in music. And that was my only thing I left with. I managed to get into a college, I'm doing a business studies course. I lasted about eight weeks. And yeah, just it wasn't for me. So I really struggled to focus in a classroom, to be honest, and really struggled to maintain that level of discipline at that age. I meet a lot of people that will tell you that they did poorly at school. Sometimes it can become like a bit of a cliche, but generally for me, I was really poor at it. And I've paid for it in later life as well. If someone asked me the other day, what would you change in school? And for me, I would have paid more attention on the basics because it would have saved me a lot of time later on down the line. And my brother's got some funny stories about spellings.
Your Inspiration
So my dad has been the inspiration for everyone in the family in terms of business and sort of setting up on our own and having the confidence to do that. Because my dad worked for himself from, I think he was about 17 or 18. Same sort of story, left school with a GCSE in art and a GCSE or whatever they were about then in design and had to make it for himself. And so we've always looked at my dad as like inspiration and he sort of guided us through the way. And we're still working with my dad today, which is great.
I'm really passionate about the solar renewable stuff and that's thanks to you. You know, we were talking about it earlier. I used to laugh at people that had solar and then I went to your house and I can remember going home, I think I was with Jack and Soph and I was like, "I rang our Sam and I said, "Alan's got this app on his phone and he can see what he's bloody roosting in his house." I was like, "He needs to come and see it, it's amazing." And then I just dived down this rabbit hole. I always remember the first time you spoke about solar because you sort of laughed at me. You totally dismissed me. I was so excited and buzzing about it. And then over you coming a few times, it sort of really changed. And then obviously, you are what you are. I love it. Yeah, I mean, I love it. The renewable journey for me is massive. I like what we've done for engineers. I know there's mixed opinions out there in the market, but look, I see the success of guys who were working for someone for 25 grand that are now earning 80 grand for us. And I've also had guys that come through and we've had Fallout's wave and all the rest of it, but we've got a really good, we don't even call them engineers, I call them partners, like in the brand, they are partners to us and we can't do it without them. So I love working with them. The solar industry is a bit more Wild West for partners, but we've found some amazing people like Jezz at Jaycock. It's just been amazing for us. He's been by our side from the start. We've got lots of new ones coming through the ranks and that's growing at a rapid pace. I think that the next iteration of it is like moving into battery storage. It's moving into more renewable style technologies. It's empowering more engineers. It's trying to make it affordable.
If somebody wants to try and do really well, have you got any tips or any guidance for what they could do to help them? Yeah, the first thing is tenacity. You've just got to be relentless. The 80-20 rule, which is 80% effort in, 20% out, I live by it. You've got to be tenacious, good people around you. It's difficult to do it alone. Me, my family, as a first point of call, could never have done about them. All the people that have joined this business couldn't have done about them. All the guys and girls who are working for us out here couldn't do it without them. I'd focus less on the money because it comes eventually. If I'd have focused on money from day one, I'd have to give up in year 
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Well done to you and your family business. Big up to all the school failures who have recovered to build good careers to provide for their families.
I really enjoyed speaking with Ben. Thanks.
What a story so inspirational this made me want to try a lot harder and take a chance
Watching Allen Hart videos and Heatable videos and then stumbled on this..!! Bonkers. Really enjoyed watching this and it's given me even more confidence in placing an order with Heatable... plus, as a Northener myself, I'm stoked to be putting money into a 'local' family business... I just need to get my head around how my tado system will be affected by installing a new boiler. Hoping Heatable can give me some advice before going ahead with the System to Combi conversion. Great video!
Fantastic story thank you for sharing I will definitely be getting involved with this and signing up to be a installer and they are local lads aswell win win 👍🏻
I bloody love a great success story 🤘😎🤘
Great video, been waiting for this one a while
My maa has just had a new gas boiler fitted. Could not afford no heat pump or anything like that. Thats just the reality for alot of people. Thanks for the vid as always. ❤
Thanks for your support.
Throughly enjoyed this. Especially from a local lad to me.. #getmeinvolved 😂😂
Thanks for watching. See you soon.
Great watch interesting chat. Subbed because my son is doing his second yr of plumbing at college and came across your channel months ago.
We have solar with battery , interesting hearing about boilers and heat pumps but I was told and I have no clue about this so plse forgive my ignorance that heat pumps are no good on older houses ? If this is the way forward then there’s a lot to be done in regards of this before they phase out gas boilers .
Insulation, insulation, insulation. See how far you can go with an older house. A terraced house is going to be easier than a detached house. Make one insulation improvement per year and in a few years it all adds up to a warmer home.
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