My dad and my uncles. While I was in high school, I would go in a bakkie with my dad to go sell things, so I had the opportunity to see how he does it. Later, throughout my varsity years, he had a truck and he used to have a contract with CashBuild, so just working with him and understanding the value of making your own money was important for me.

Entering the green space was pure luck, actually. Pure luck because I was in East London then, working on that side, and a good friend of mine was working in Cape Town. I had just quit my job.

We integrate what architects do, that is just designing buildings, with what we've termed as 'building performance design.' Building performance design looks at fundamentally how to create comfortable environments using passive systems and sometimes active systems.

The purview that they should have is sustainability of life. In the sense of, how do you create environments that enable you to live better and live longer? From an entrepreneurial point of view, I would assume one of your motives is creating sustainability and community culture by being able to do build this business that is one day going to create jobs and make the environment better.

For me, the most fundamental thing about space is comfort. And how do you present comfort in in space planning? Firstly, look at what you do the most in the space and create elements that are going to make that comfortable the most.

With working from home, I  find it interesting how people are able to find efficiencies around their lives and still prioritise work and deliver. And sometimes even deliver more efficiently.

It must be clearly defined as a workspace. It mustn't be a situation where it's part of something that you do in the house, like "You know my dining table becomes my office ". Because then it creates a psychological separation where you can say, "Oh, if I'm sitting here, I'm sitting for work. If I'm sitting there, I'm sitting for leisure."

If you're looking for coworking spaces, look for coworking spaces that have got that dynamic where you can meet, but you can grab a quick drink or you can meet and then play a little game or whatever.

I think company values should live in the boardroom. Colour choices matter. Interpreting your values into the boardroom space through your selection of furniture or just writing them in a cool, graphical way also helps.

For instance, as an employer, you can organize recycling for your staff since people are working from home and are using more resources in the house. So partner up with a recycling company to deliver recycling bins to their homes and for the same company to go and collect once filled. These are the little things that you can actually see improving their lives while adding to the sustainability component of things.