Secret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter
374 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsThis is the entrepreneurial education I wish I’d had. A few years ago, I thought I'd made it as a Founder. My app was topping the charts, I was winning awards, having drinks with the Queen at Buckingham Palace (she laughed at one of my gags, sure), but as my business started to fail, I realised I had so much more to learn. The trouble was I found most business chat too stuffy, surface level or braggy so I started Secret Leaders to get behind the mask of entrepreneurship. I speak with the best Founders and business experts to learn how great companies are built - especially the things that normally get left out, like their mistakes. We cover the most important stuff, from fundraising to hiring, habits to mindset, so you can learn how to build a successful business. And no, you don’t need to get into an ice bath at 5am either...
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The Lowdown: Alex Depledge of Resi and James Hurley of The Times
May 03, 2020 06:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBThe Lowdown: Alex Depledge, Founder & CEO at Resi, and James Hurley, Enterprise Editor at The Times.
Stride.VC: Funding and Financing During A Pandemic
April 28, 2020 01:00 - 56 minutesIf you’ve been caught out raising money for your startup during this complicated time, then you’ve come to the right place - you’re in good company. In this episode of Secret Leaders we’ve pinned down VC extraordinaire, Fred Destin who is primed to answer not just our questions, but your questions too. Why should you take advice from Fred? Because he’s the founder of Stride.VC, a £100 million seed stage fund focused on operating in London and Paris. Before starting Stride, Fred was a genera...
The Lowdown: Matt Clifford of Entrepreneur First and Steve O’Hear of Techcrunch
April 26, 2020 06:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBThe Lowdown: Matt Clifford, co-founder of Entrepreneur First and Steve O’Hear, reporter at Techcrunch discuss the UK Government's recently announced Future Fund.
Slack: How to Work Remotely and Stay Productive with Cal Henderson
April 21, 2020 01:00 - 50 minutesToday’s guest is someone we’ve had on the show before, in fact, he kicked off season 4 for us. So don’t be confused and think we’ve got our seasons muddled up. We thought we’d invite Cal Henderson back onto the podcast because his company, Slack, is one of only a few companies that aren’t in a tailspin currently. They’re facing an entirely different dilemma - they’re scrambling to keep up with demand, what with the majority of the world now in self-isolation and having to work from home (WFH...
The Lowdown: Martha Lane Fox of Lastminute.com and Mike Butcher of TechCrunch
April 19, 2020 06:00 - 31 minutes - 29.3 MBIn this week's episode of The Lowdown we are joined by Martha Lane Fox who was the co-founder of dot com success story, LastMinute.com. She can now be found in some of the biggest boardrooms including Twitter, Channel 4 and even a Baroness in the House of Lords. Alongside her is Mike Butcher MBE, Editor at Large of Techcrunch. Known for his straight talking style the episode doesn't disappoint. We talk about: An update on the Save Our Startups (SOS) Campaign What the government s...
Tech Will Save Us & Koru Kids: Educating Children at Home Through Covid-19
April 14, 2020 01:00 - 53 minutesIf you’re wondering how on earth you’re going to hold down a full time job while working from home AND educating your kids for the foreseeable future, then you need to listen to Koru Kids founder Rachel Carrell and Tech Will Save Us co-founder Bethany Koby. “Lower [your] impossible expectations. It is not possible to work full time and also homeschool kids full time, at the same time. It's just not possible. And just don't listen to anyone who implies that it is. We are working really hard t...
The Lowdown: SOS with Peter Evans, Senior business correspondent at The Sunday Times
April 12, 2020 06:00 - 25 minutes - 23.7 MBIn our first episode of The Lowdown we are joined by Peter Evans, Enterprise Editor of The Sunday Times, to chew the fat on some of the key talking points in the business world today. We talk about: The Save Our Startups (SOS) Campaign Are the government schemes going far enough How the Sunday Times is trying to keep up to speed with covering the crisis And a roundup of the good news from startups
Ali Parsa and Dr Rangan Chatterjee: The Global Impact of Coronavirus
April 07, 2020 01:00 - 53 minutesKicking off series 5 of Secret Leaders are two fantastic guests - Ali Parsa (CEO and founder of Babylon) and Dr Ranjan Chatterjee. Ali has been on the show several times before - firstly on his own, and secondly for one of our live events where he shared the stage with Michael Acton-Smith, founder of Calm. In the light of the current global crisis, nobody knows what the world is going to be like when the dust settles at the end of this pandemic. And this is what we discuss in this episode - ...
Series 5 - Secret Leaders in Crisis - Coming Soon
March 29, 2020 12:56 - 4 minutes - 4.4 MBComing back to you much sooner than planned we are bringing you Secret Leaders in Crisis Mode. As the world changes with the COVID-19 pandemic we have accelerated our next series to bring interviews with leading founders and CEO's who are fighting day and night to keep their businesses alive. We also are bringing together a series of episodes focussed at directly answering your questions by some of the top business brains out there.
Deliveroo: The Rise Of The Delivery Unicorn Company
March 10, 2020 02:00 - 1 hourWe’ve all been there - back from a hard night’s boozing and hungry. Most of us would simply eat some toast and hit the hay, but then most of us aren’t Will Shu, founder and CEO of Deliveroo. “I was like, wow, you know, you can't get any decent food delivered here when you've been boozing. Then I was like, wait a minute, maybe I should start something that is a late night delivery service for food that you can get in like half an hour. You want it for McDonald's or BK.” And so from a late nig...
Planet Organic, Hassle, Skimlinks & Seedcamp: Female Leadership and Equality for International Women's Day
March 03, 2020 02:00 - 1 hour“I think the worst thing is every morning when you wake up as a founder and you pick up your phone, you think what will I discover that will ruin my day?” While your business might not care what your gender is, significant discrepancies still exist between the number of female and male entrepreneurs. As Baroness Martha Lane Fox quite rightly proclaimed, ‘you cannot be what you cannot see’. And so we’ve gone and put four female entrepreneur powerhouses together on the same live stage. We’ve p...
Allbright: Connecting women, what’s the worst that can happen?
February 25, 2020 02:00 - 56 minutesIf you found the film ‘The Holiday’ so inspirational it kickstarted a business that you went on to sell for over £50 million, then you’re in good company. You didn’t? Well you missed a trick. Not so Debbie Wosskow, co-founder of AllBright and former CEO of LoveHomeSwap (a subscription based home exchange business) who on a plane home from a ‘holiday’ in the Caribbean watched the movie and thought, ‘does this even exist?’ But LoveHomeSwap wasn’t Debbie’s first successful business, nor was it h...
LoveFilm: Selling to Amazon - The Deal From Both Sides of The Table
February 18, 2020 02:00 - 1 hourYou may know that LoveFilm became Amazon Prime Video, that part of the deal was public knowledge. What you may not be familiar with is the wrangling, the deal making and the allegiance swapping that went on behind the scenes to get the deal across the table. In this very special live episode of Secret Leaders we once again sit down with serial entrepreneur and angel investor, best known for creating Lovefilm and being an early investor in Secret Escapes, ‘the subscription guy’ William Reeve ...
OakNorth: The pathway to building a unicorn with Rishi Khosla
February 11, 2020 02:00 - 46 minutesToday’s guest has been a high achiever since he was a kid, completing his computer science GCSE at 11, his A-levels at 13, and receiving a Masters from LSE by the time he was 20. Some child geniuses burnout before they achieve great things, not Rishi Khosla. Rishi, according to LL Cool J, is something of a phenomenon in the world of entrepreneurship, and we are wont to agree with him. Co-founding OakNorth, Europe's highest valued FinTech company having raised over a billion dollars in fundi...
The School of Life: Finding Answers to Life’s Tricky Questions
February 04, 2020 02:00 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBHave you ever wondered what the meaning of life is? Of course you have, you’re only human after all. Well, today’s guest, Alain de Botton, philosopher and founder of The School of Life, has not only wondered the same thing too, philosophising this age old dilemma, he’s also written a book on the subject. Actually, he’s written well over 15 books as a solo author and collaborated on countless others. “I was a young man who really wanted to know the meaning of life. I wanted gui...
Alain de Botton: Finding Answers to Life’s Tricky Questions
February 04, 2020 02:00 - 55 minutesHave you ever wondered what the meaning of life is? Of course you have, you’re only human after all. Well, today’s guest, Alain de Botton, philosopher and founder of The School of Life, has not only wondered the same thing too, philosophising this age old dilemma, he’s also written a book on the subject. Actually, he’s written well over 15 books as a solo author and collaborated on countless others. “I was a young man who really wanted to know the meaning of life. I wanted guidance in the ...
Mumsnet and Jo Malone: Lifting the Lid on Life as a Female Entrepreneur
January 28, 2020 05:00 - 1 hourHere at Secret Leaders we are all about bringing you the best entrepreneurs in the world - those people who you wouldn’t ordinarily hear from, but who have inspiring stories to tell. They share their highs and more importantly their lows, with the aim of sparking a fire in you to follow in their footsteps, or accelerate the path you’re already on. Because let’s be honest, success stories are all good and well, but it’s the failures that shape us; it’s how we handle adversity that makes us wh...
FabFitFun: Creating A Celebrity Swagbag Subscription Box Model
January 21, 2020 02:00 - 51 minutesFounded in 2010 in the USA by Co-CEOs brothers Dan and Michael Broukhim and Editor-in-Chief Katie Echevarria Rosen Kitchens, the wildly successful lifestyle subscription platform FabFitFun is a lifestyle membership that inspires happiness and well being. Their flagship product, the FabFitFun box (now available in the UK), delivers a curated collection of full-size products across beauty, fashion, wellness, fitness, home, tech and more - to over 1 million members each season. And as well as t...
Calm.com and Babylon Health: The Future of Healthcare
January 14, 2020 02:00 - 1 hourIn this live podcast episode we talk about what makes a healthy body, a healthy mind and the future of technology enabled healthcare. We’ve previously talked to both of today’s guests - Michael Acton-Smith, founder of Mind Candy, Firebox and Calm.com in Series One of Secret Leaders and Ali Parsa, founder and CEO of Babylon Health in Series Two. But to have both of these guys (who are revolutionising healthcare), sit down together and go through pertinent health issues of the day was too goo...
Starling Bank, Hassle.com and Just Eat: Funding and Financing Startups
January 07, 2020 02:00 - 55 minutes - 50.8 MBSecret Leaders is all about hearing from founders and CEOs of some of the world’s most successful startups. We grill each guest on the highs and more importantly lows of starting and running a startup, and one of the biggest hurdles for any startup to overcome is financing and funding. “Leave investors with two or three messages that are really clear what is special about your business, what's great about you and your founders, and how this thing is ever going to make money. They'...
Starling Bank, Resi and Just Eat: Funding and Financing Startups
January 07, 2020 02:00 - 58 minutesSecret Leaders is all about hearing from founders and CEOs of some of the world’s most successful startups. We grill each guest on the highs and more importantly lows of starting and running a startup, and one of the biggest hurdles for any startup to overcome is financing and funding. “Leave investors with two or three messages that are really clear what is special about your business, what's great about you and your founders, and how this thing is ever going to make money. They're probably ...
Secret Leaders Season 4 Continuing January 7
December 24, 2019 02:00 - 2 minutes - 1.89 MBWe're taking a short break over the Christmas and holiday period, with the remainder of Season 4 continuing on January 7. Upcoming, we have Daniel Broukhim & Katie Kitchens of Fab Fit Fun, Alain De Botton, Rishi Khosla of Oaknorth, Will Shu from Deliveroo, and so much more. We'll see you in 2020, and remember: Tune in, or you'll miss out.
Grenade: Disrupting the FMCG Industry with Alan and Juliet Barratt
December 10, 2019 05:10 - 49 minutesIf you’re an entrepreneur in the FMCG industry, this episode of Secret Leaders is one you don’t want to miss. Today we talk to the founders of Grenade, one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, featured in the Sunday Times Fast Track Top 100 companies four out of five consecutive years. Launched in 2009 as a hobby company, “we were only ever planning on launching one product, but then it did so well that customers and retailers were asking us for more”, and getting down to just £27 in ...
Blippar and Shazam: A live chat with visionaries Jess Butcher and Dhiraj Mukherjee
December 03, 2019 02:00 - 1 hourIf you want to know what it takes to start and run a technology company, then you need to listen to two of our most pioneering guests discuss their experiences live, as they started visionary companies in every single sense of the word. In this special episode we talk live to Jess Butcher, co-founder of Blippar - the augmented reality giant, and Dhiraj Mukherjee, co-founder of Shazam - the app that lets you discover the media playing all around you. Jess was one of our first guests in Seaso...
Huel: How to Become a Food and Drink Millionaire with Julian Hearn
November 26, 2019 04:38 - 48 minutesWant to know what it takes to become a food and drink millionaire? Of course you do. That’s why you need to listen to Julian Hearn talking about how and why he founded the powdered food product Huel. Huel is marketed as a super convenient, nutritionally complete meal replacement. With sales of £14 million last year and a projection for 2019 at more than £40 million, this makes Huel one of Britain's fastest growing businesses - full stop. But Huel wasn’t Julian’s first foray into entrepreneuri...
Photobox and Moonpig: Selling to your competitor and the art of the exit
November 19, 2019 04:46 - 1 hourEver wonder what goes on behind the scenes when one well-known start up buys another well-known start up? Well, wonder no more. You’ve heard us talk to both Nick Jenkins (founder of Moonpig) and Graham Hobson (founder of Photobox) in Series One. But we thought it would be fun to bring them together and have a Q&A with them, side by side. So that’s just what we did. Because you normally only hear the side of the story from the founder who sold their company. You rarely, if ever, hear the s...
Slack: Cal Henderson - An Engineer’s Fairytale Story
November 12, 2019 06:00 - 48 minutesWelcome back to series 4 - what a season have we got lined up for you! Kicking us off is Cal Henderson, co-founder and CTO of one of this decade’s most famous tech companies - the team communications platform the majority of companies couldn’t be without, Slack. But Cal hasn’t always been CTO of Slack, he cut his teeth as co-founder and VP Eng for Glitch, a web-based massively multiplayer game, before that, he was the Director of Engineering for Flickr at Ludicorp (where he first met Slack fe...
ClassPass: How Payal Kadakia Built A Fitness Empire
May 14, 2019 05:00 - 50 minutesToday’s guest is Payal Kadakia, founder and executive chairman of ClassPass. Payal started ClassPass in 2011 a business that was born out of her love for dance, which she has been doing since the age of 3. Prior to founding ClassPass, Payal worked as a consultant at Bain & Company and in Warner Music Group’s Digital Strategy and Business Development Group. However in 2010 Payal realised that her two lives (working at Warner and running her dance class side hustle) weren’t gelling and she wasn...
Vicki Saunders: On being a SheEO extraordinaire and implementing #radicalgenerosity
May 07, 2019 05:00 - 50 minutesInvestment funds for female entrepreneurs are not exactly commonplace in the world of finance. But today’s guest, SheEO founder and Canadian entrepreneurial powerhouse, Vicki Saunders, has been on a one woman crusade to change that. Her mammoth task has involved championing the term ‘radical generosity’, which means allowing people (men and women) to share capital in order to help like-minded women turn their light bulb moment into a successful company. Since launching SheEO in Canada in 2015...
Founders4Schools and Scale Up Institute: Meet Sherry Coutu CBE, a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor Turned Philanthropist.
April 30, 2019 06:00 - 49 minutesSherry Coutu CBE is a serial entrepreneur, former CEO, angel investor and non-executive director based in Cambridge, UK but originally from Canada. She is best known for investing in Lovefilm, Zoopla and for sitting on the advisory board of LinkedIn. A self-confessed techie, Sherry has now turned her hand to philanthropy, having learned first hand that the number one problem for scaling businesses is finding great talent with the necessary skill sets, to enable startup businesses to grow. She...
Lovefilm - The Subscription King You Won’t Have Heard Of
April 22, 2019 23:00 - 49 minutesSerial tech entrepreneur William Reeve realised early on that he wasn’t quite techy enough to be a techy, and so focused on the business side of tech businesses. And without this early enlightenment, we might not have seen the likes of Zoopla, Dunelm, Secret Escapes, Lovefilm or Graze, to name but a few of the businesses that have benefitted from William’s involvement. At the tender age of 23, having recently graduated from Oxford University with a degree in engineering and having just starte...
Lastminute.com: meet Martha Lane Fox, the Baroness of tech who refuses to let her past define her future
April 15, 2019 21:00 - 45 minutesMartha Lane Fox is a digital entrepreneur who is not only passionate about the world of tech, but Chancellor of the Open University, a philanthropist and a public servant to boot. Martha can be thanked for making our everyday lives easier, as well as the lives of children, and even prisoners. Martha’s resume is as lengthy as they come, and whilst she is notably the youngest female member the House of Lords has ever had, you will probably know her best as the founder of lastminute.com. However...
Saasha Celestial-One: Tackling food waste through startup Olio
April 09, 2019 04:00 - 44 minutesSaasha Celestial-One may sound like a band formed in the swinging sixties, but she’s actually one half of a food waste startup looking to sign up 1 billion users to food sharing app, Olio, by 2025. Born and raised by hippy parents in Iowa, Saasha cut her teeth upcycling and tackling food waste from a very early age. Having grown up with not very much, she set her mind on building a bulletproof CV and worked hard to de-risk her professional career - she admits she was really seeking financial ...
Founder of Stellar, Ripple and Mt Gox Jed McCaleb: On Cryptocurrency and the Hardships of Entrepreneurship
April 02, 2019 04:00 - 45 minutesJed McCaleb is a cryptocurrency legend. He's been involved in some of the most high profile organizations in crypto including Mt. Gox, Ripple, and now his current rocket ship, Stellar.org. But the journey from Little Rock, Arkansas to number 40 in the Forbes rich list has not been a smooth ride. He struggled his whole life with trying to find a balance between wanting to do something huge and wanting to just go chill at the beach and surf. Luckily for the rest of us, he opted to work hard to ...
Candy Crush: creator Riccardo Zacconi on what it means to be the king of King
March 26, 2019 05:00 - 48 minutesRiccardo Zacconi is an Italian entrepreneur best known as the CEO of King, the company behind the most popular game of our generation: Candy Crush Saga. Riccardo cut his teeth in the tech startup world during the dotcom boom of the late 90s, when he joined Swedish messaging startup Spray. He left Spray to become vice-president of European sales and marketing at uDate, leaving shortly after it was acquired by Match.com, to set up King in 2003. The rest they say, is history. But we aren’t going...
Uber's first invester - Jason Calacanis the GREATEST angel investor of all time (his words) and host of This Week In Startups
March 12, 2019 05:00 - 1 hourToday’s guest, Jason Calacanis, is best known for his podcast This Week In Startups and for investing in unicorn companies such as Uber, Thumbtack and Robin Hood; as well as selling shares in Facebook (whilst telling Mark Zuckerberg what he thought of him) and working alongside investors such as Elon Musk. But it took him awhile to get here. Jason was the Founder and CEO of Rising Tide Studios and Weblogs Inc (which he sold to AOL in 2005 for $25m), before turning his hand to angel investing....
Clara Brenner: the VC investing in social entrepreneurs for a better urban future
March 05, 2019 06:30 - 46 minutesClara Brenner is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm she established to invest in the future of cities. She had a vision to empower entrepreneurs keen to solve urban problems, and so with business partner Julie Lein, she is helping grow tomorrow’s most valued companies. The UIF provides seed capital and regulatory support to social entrepreneurs looking to create solutions to tough urban challenges, such as transportation, work force, housing i...
Tim Draper: The Jedi Master of Venture Capital
February 26, 2019 06:30 - 48 minutesTim Draper is the world’s most famous venture capital investor who’s backed many companies like Hotmail, Twitter or Tesla. He is a ridiculously nice and charming guy (it might be all that Bitcoin he owns, who knows?), he’s full of amazing advice and has a voice like chocolate silk - which, if it did exist, he could probably afford to buy. Tim founded DJF, Draper Associates and Draper University. All you need to know if you’re listening outside the Valley is that Tim is one of the great legacy...
Allbirds Co-Founder Tim Brown: Designing and Manufacturing the World’s Most Comfortable Shoes
February 19, 2019 06:30 - 43 minutesTim Brown is an ex-professional New Zealand footballer turned American shoemaker entrepreneur. After a successful football career, Tim got injured. This caused a career turning point and he looked outside the sporting world at a business future. He first obtained a master’s from LSC, and then he entered into a partnership with Joey Zwillinger. The result? Allbirds, a sustainable tech and science-led footwear that has a huge A-list Hollywood following and that’s creating massive waves in the f...
Mumsnet: Justine Roberts on Saving Parents’ Lives
February 12, 2019 06:30 - 42 minutesDescribed as one of the world’s most influential women and CEOs, Justine Roberts is at the helm of one of the world’s most talked about forums, Mumsnet. Loved by many and the cause of many heated discussions, Justine has created a place for open and frank conversations for a wide sector of the public. As a wife and mother of four, including twins, Justine has had the exact experience of how hard it is to be a working mum. Recognized for her impact on the economy and ultimately being awarded a...
Starling Bank: Anne Boden Founder & CEO, an Innovative Challenger Bank That’s Exciting the Market
February 05, 2019 06:00 - 41 minutesGrowing up in Swansea with two hard-working parents, Anne Boden couldn’t have dreamt of the future ahead of her. After going on to study Chemistry and Computer Sciences at Swansea University, she made the big move to London to work for Lloyds Bank. Jump forward 35 years and positions at UBS, RBS and ABN AMRO, Anne has put herself out there as a forward-thinking banker who has spotted huge potential in the world of digital banking. Unable to have her vision realized as Allied Irish Banks’ Chie...
WeTransfer: Damian Bradfield tells us about the art of the stunningly straightforward file sharing
January 30, 2019 06:30 - 57 minutesWeTransfer started in late 2009 and today it has over 45 million active monthly users. It’s one of the world’s most trusted online brands, helping people to discover and share in every country around the globe. Damian Bradfield, an advertising and marketing specialist who cut his teeth at various agencies, teamed up with Nalden, a famous Dutch design and media blogger. From creating the disarmingly straightforward file transfer service WeTransfer to curating an interactive art installation at...
Secret Leaders Season 3 Coming January 30th
January 23, 2019 07:30 - 7 minutes - 6.47 MBWe're back after a break to work on Series 3. It's coming on 30th January so stay tuned and visit secretleaders.com for more info!
Jo Malone: The Alchemist Devoted to Spreading the Poetry of Scent
July 10, 2018 04:00 - 59 minutesToday’s Secret Leader is Jo Malone CBE, founder of her namesake and more recently Jo Loves. Of all the guests we’ve had the wonderful fortune of interviewing, Jo has one of the biggest reputations preceding her, but worry not, it’s an entirely positive one. From battles with dyslexia to cancer Jo is well known for being authentic, inspiring, and a true hero to young entrepreneurs everywhere. We chat about: Growing up in a council house, looking after her mother, and putting her sister throug...
Vijay Eswaran: From Taxi Driver to Billionaire
July 04, 2018 11:00 - 55 minutesVijay Eswaran is the Executive Chairman of the QI Group of Companies. Born in Penang, Malaysia, in 1960, to hardworking parents, Vijay had a childhood filled with moves around his native country. His education brought him to the UK, and in 1984, Eswaran graduated from the London School of Economics with a degree in Socioeconomics. In 1998, Eswaran returned to Malaysia after several years of work that stretched globally, and he co-founded the multilevel marketing company that has grown into wh...
JustGiving: Anne-Marie Huby, Always Guided by a Deep Sense of Purpose
June 26, 2018 04:00 - 1 hourFrom a business desk at the Birmingham Post to the world’s fastest-growing tech-for-good platform, Belgium-born Anne-Marie Huby is one of UK’s most innovative entrepreneurs, creating the first online fundraising platform in the UK in 2000. She started her career in journalism in Belgium, and later joined the UK arm of Doctors Without Borders (aka Médecins Sans Frontières), where she worked for ten years. In 1994, Anne-Marie was in Congo with MSF, not long after the genocide which saw Rwandan ...
Rankin: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes
June 19, 2018 04:00 - 56 minutesRankin is arguably Britain’s most successful export to the fashion industry, and one of the world’s leading portrait photographers. He is also well known for his phenomenal work ethic, his charitable pursuits within fashion and his fearlessness when creating art. Rankin made his name in publishing by founding the seminal monthly magazine Dazed & Confused with Jefferson Hack in 1991. Dazed & Confused has now progressed into Dazed Media, which in itself is a brand synonymous with leading fashio...
Planet Organic: How Founder Renée Elliott Wove Together Love and Food
June 05, 2018 05:00 - 54 minutesFrom the pages of a wine magazine to the UK’s largest certified organic haven of delicious produce, Mississippi-born Renée Elliott moved to the UK in 1986. Nine years later, Renée launched Planet Organic having followed her heart. Planet Organic became the first store certified by the Soil Association, and now it has seven outlets. Inspired by the tutelage of Craig Sams, founder of Whole Earth Foods and Green & Black’s, Renée absorbed a wealth of knowledge of fuelled nutrition and everything ...
Shazam: How Dhiraj Mukherjee Built One of the Most Downloaded Apps of All Time
May 29, 2018 05:00 - 57 minutesOur esteemed guest this week is Dhiraj Mukerjee, co-founder of Shazam, the app that has literally put more songs on the record than anyone else in the world. Dhiraj is not a fan of being praised or of receiving any kind of popular commendations of his AMAZING efforts, so we won’t do any of that today. Today we offer you the story that led four people to build one of the world’s most innovative products of all time. Long story short: Shazam was created in 1999 by co-founders Chris Barton, Phil...
Babylon Health: How Founder and CEO Dr Ali Parsa Plans to Make Healthcare a Utility for Every Human on Earth
May 15, 2018 04:00 - 1 hourOur guest this week is the very inspirational Ali Parsa, founder and CEO of Babylon Health. Babylon is the world’s largest healthcare app successfully changing the way we as humans are getting access to healthcare. Their mission? To provide affordable healthcare to the world and to be, in Ali’s own words, “the Google of healthcare”. We don’t say this often, but get ready to have your mind blown at the scale of his ambition and, even more importantly, his execution. So tune in or you’ll miss o...