Alexander Proud

Lately Alex Proud has started to wonder if he will be a cool dad. As his kids get older. Alex Proud is terrified by what wised-up, mini-adults his children are becoming overnight. The cynical teenage years are just round the corner. Alex Proud sees two kinds of cool dads. There are normal-ish dads who are reasonably disciplined but happen to be good looking or fun or cool. “I’d speculate that David Beckham is that kind of dad”, says Alex Proud. Then, says Alex Proud, “There are the kind of dads who want to be cool by being cool with their kids. They want to hang out with their friends, get drunk with them, even take drugs with them.” And this kind of ‘cool’ dad is not cool at all. But Alex Proud says he can see why people fall into the ‘cool’ parenting trap. “When you see your kids having fun it’s tempting to join in, plus being their mate, the good guy, is easier than being the disciplinarian; the bad guy.   Even without parenthood, there is a cult of endless youth that...

Author of Proud Cabaret, Alex Proud , discusses why he adores going to work and why he discovers worker life fun!  Alex Proud loves going to work. From driving to long working snacks to having genuine gatherings with his group, Alex Proud says that the pandemic caused him to acknowledge the amount he adores his business and his work and disputably; the amount he cherishes going into the workplace.  Alex Proud says: "In reality as we know it where everybody has chosen they need to telecommute always, I need to go into the workplace, for the basic explanation that I extremely appreciate it."  Alexander Proud says that telecommuting, while incredible for the nursery tan, and time with the family, simply didn't feel like work and, following half a month, he began needing the workplace.  Alex Proud says that telecommuting, while incredible for the nursery tan, and time with the family, simply didn't feel like work and, following half a month, he began needing the workpl...

Alex Proud | Art collector, Serial Entrepreneur and Founder of the Proud Group, speaks about what inspires him in business | Alex Proud , CEO Founder of the Proud Group of venues talks about what inspires him. Alex Proud has always been inspired by what looks fun, or interesting. He looks for what hasn’t been done, and what he feels should be done and that singular focus has lead him to cross art forms and genres and has led to several reinventions. Alex Proud came to fame with the Proud photographic gallery where he decided to focus uniquely on rock photography because in his words: “there were all these incredible archives of work from rock and roll history and no-one was celebrating the photographers, and I thought ‘Why not?!”. Proud gained a reputation for being ‘really good’ and ‘really cool’ - but Alex insists that his motivation was always born from a genuine love of the work and clearly a burning desire for novelty and intellectual challenge. Alex Proud jumped from art col...