Secret Leaders with Dan Murray-Serter & Chris Donnelly

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Chris and Dan are serial entrepreneurs who've built, sold, scaled & failed companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. So, like, we get it - business is hard. But we also love it, it's fun! Fortunately- we've got an epic network of some of the most inspiring builders on the planet who aren't boring and will teach you everything you'd never learn in business school - and therefore everything you'll actually need to build yourself a better future and have some lols along the way. Contact: hello@secretleaders.com

Episode Date
8 Life-Changing Books To Read In 2025
Dec 20, 2024
How I disrupted a $671 billion industry from my bedroom
Dec 17, 2024
Our Regrets On Interviewing James Watt
Dec 13, 2024
How Creators AND Businesses Can Win In The New Economy- Caspar Lee
Dec 10, 2024
Diary Of A CEO Embarrassing Moment, Selling Feet Pics & Our NEW STUDIO
Dec 06, 2024
Why creators risk losing their audience - Dom Smales
Dec 03, 2024
Why DECIEM'S Black Friday Boycott Works
Nov 29, 2024
Why Mumsnet founder is suing Open AI for stealing
Nov 26, 2024
Padel With Max Verstappen, Reacting to Losing £50m and Entrepreneurs' ADHD
Nov 22, 2024
Brewdog: World’s Most Controversial Boss
Nov 19, 2024
How Dubai Changed The World In 64 Years
Nov 15, 2024
8 Business lessons from $5.3bn Entrepreneur - Richard Hapin, Homeserve
Nov 12, 2024
Why Elon’s Twitter will NEVER be profitable
Nov 08, 2024
Deborah Meaden: What You Don't See On Dragons' Den
Nov 05, 2024
Entrepreneurs react to UK Budget - Will This Fix Britains Debt Disaster?
Nov 01, 2024
Building a $1bn business after Dragons' Den REJECTION - Timo Boldt, Gousto
Oct 29, 2024
How to Earn Millions by charging $0
Oct 25, 2024
Spencer Matthews: How pushing my body to the limit changed my life
Oct 22, 2024
Elon's Best Week Ever?!
Oct 18, 2024
Billionaire Secrets Exposed and my chilling encounter with Vladimir Putin
Oct 15, 2024
10 Richest People You’ve never heard of
Oct 11, 2024
The Man Who Made $115M by travelling The World - Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet
Oct 08, 2024
How Airbnb & Uber Took Over the World
Oct 04, 2024
WeTransfer Boss Reveals All Since Selling for $500M+ - Damian Bradfield Exclusive
Oct 01, 2024
Mr Beast's Lunchly is a DISASTER - Entrepreneurs react
Sep 27, 2024
From building a Unicorn to Leading a Nation during Covid - Nadhim Zahawi
Sep 24, 2024
Wtf is Oracle and why do 97% of companies use it? Larry Ellison's $457bn gamble
Sep 20, 2024
22 Years as a Money Making Expert - How Anyone can make $10K+ a month - Daniel Priestley
Sep 17, 2024
Founders Reveal All! - Drunken Hires, Billion Dollar Clients & Partying With Royalty!
Sep 13, 2024
Simon Squibb Generates BILLIONS Of Views By Investing In Strangers!
Sep 10, 2024
We want to hear from you
Jul 16, 2024
A Business without a company? - Timothy Armoo
Jul 02, 2024
How To Exit Using Private Equity - Alexis Sikorsky
Jun 25, 2024
Building Social Chain Almost Broke Me - Dom McGregor
Jun 18, 2024
Succession planning for Founder-CEO’s - Evgeny Shadchnev
Jun 11, 2024
Founding The Super-Human Olympics - Christian Angermayer
Jun 04, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Make Yourself Redundant - Andy Brown
May 30, 2024
The Algebra of Wealth - Scott Galloway
May 28, 2024
My Favourite Failure: The Great Underwear Fiasco - Joel Primus
May 23, 2024
Become Unstressable - Mo Gawdat and Alice Law
May 21, 2024
My Favourite Failure: One Founder's Journey to Sobriety and Success - Jim Frawley
May 16, 2024
Resident Advisor: Bootstrapping a Global Music Empire - Nick Sabine
May 14, 2024
My Favourite Failure: How a Navy SEAL Transforms Failure into Opportunity - Alden Mills
May 09, 2024
Everything you need to know about building a personal brand - Chris Donnelly
May 07, 2024
My Favourite Failure: The dangers of diversification - Emmanuel Arnaud
May 02, 2024
Jake Humphrey- Is High Performance Really About Achievement?
Apr 30, 2024
My Favourite Failure: How Knockoffs Killed the Leisure Suit Revolution - Jerry Rosengarten
Apr 25, 2024
Become an expert in uncertainty (w/ Sam Conniff )
Apr 23, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Balancing Parenthood and Entrepreneurship - Alyson Caffrey
Apr 18, 2024
Mastering the Art of Communication ( w/ Charles Duhigg )
Apr 16, 2024
My Favourite Failure: How to fail without getting knocked out - Tom McLeod
Apr 11, 2024
A Founder's guide to navigating the law (w/Daniel van Binsbergen)
Apr 09, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Giving up my dream opera career - Caroline Dowd-Higgins
Apr 04, 2024
The simple path to great strategy: Alex Smith
Apr 02, 2024
My Favourite Failure: We built something our customers said they wanted- Jessica Dante
Mar 28, 2024
The secret key to increase your productivity - Ali Abdaal
Mar 26, 2024
My Favourite Failure: It should’ve been a slam dunk - Andrew Wordsworth
Mar 21, 2024
How to find the right Co-Founder & idea in 90 days | Entrepreneur First’s Alice Bentinck
Mar 19, 2024
My Favourite Failure: I made a big bet on the wrong product -Mussayab Ehtesham
Mar 14, 2024
My Favourite Failure: I didn't know my limitations - Mike Connolly
Mar 07, 2024
My Favourite Failure: From The Apprentice, to the teacher - Joseph Valente
Feb 29, 2024
The Pillars of Peak Performance - Lara Menke
Feb 27, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Do what is meaningful - Tom Foxley
Feb 22, 2024
£100M Exit - How Human Psychology Built Ella's Kitchen- Paul Lindley
Feb 20, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Lessons from a Dot-Com Crash Survivor - Sharath Jeevan OBE
Feb 15, 2024
Why Founders need therapy - Sophie Scott
Feb 13, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Build in private, fail in public -Faisal Abid
Feb 08, 2024
How to grow your startup - Ex PayPal growth strategist Matt Lerner
Feb 06, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Losing £500k on an event that should’ve been the start of my new career - Amanda Brock
Feb 01, 2024
Numan Founder: One exit, one failure and one tbc - Sokratis Papafloratos
Jan 30, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Disasters with hiring and being hired - and I’m a recruiter - Ken Schmitt
Jan 25, 2024
SpareRoom Founder - I turned down an offer I couldn't refuse, plus how we fix rental market crisis | Rupert Hunt
Jan 23, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Collapse of my business left me unable to pay for my daughter’s open heart surgery - Brian Will
Jan 18, 2024
How Fanfix Founders exited for £52m in 10 months whilst graduating
Jan 16, 2024
My Favourite Failure: In 24 hours I went from leading the rocketship to the gig being over, in my own company - Adam Weber
Jan 11, 2024
Farmers to Founders: Tyrrells crisps, Chase spirits, Willy's apple cider vinegar and BAZ & CO all in one family
Jan 09, 2024
My Favourite Failure: 4 big failures which nearly cost me everything - Joel Gandara
Jan 03, 2024
My Favourite Failure: Validated in my ivory tower but we didn’t have product market fit - Better Nature Tempeh Founder
Dec 14, 2023
Lovevery: How Jessica Rolph built $800m giant after $300m Danone exit in <10 years
Dec 12, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Unpaid payments nearly destroyed my business despite UK legal system & rock solid contracts - Neil Ambikar
Dec 07, 2023
How $4b Webflow Founder failed 3 times before getting it right - Vlad Magdalin
Dec 05, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Given a settlement and pushed out after declaring disability | Molly Johnson-Jones
Nov 30, 2023
How to manage your stress response when you're up against it - Sensate Co-Founder Anna Gudmundson
Nov 28, 2023
My Favourite Failure: I lost my company, job, had to sell my cars, house & move back in with my mum | Tay Sweat
Nov 23, 2023
Ticket Tailor - Bootstrapping to £6m after selling business to TimeOut and buying it back
Nov 21, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Chef who got rave reviews, celeb diners and a bustling business but couldn't sustain it
Nov 16, 2023
Cobra beer Founder - how to get through crises having nearly lost his business three times | Lord Karan Bilimoria
Nov 14, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Entering a death spiral - Rico Mandel
Nov 09, 2023
How to know if it's the right time to sell - UK's greatest record producer behind Sade, Sting, Clapton etc. | Sir Robin Millar
Nov 07, 2023
My Favourite Failure: From the outside my lingerie business looked amazing but I’d got the key numbers wrong - Emma Parker
Nov 02, 2023
Shane Parrish: How to think clearer & make better decisions
Oct 31, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Debt collectors at the door after over-extending too fast - Alex Chisnall
Oct 26, 2023
How to fail well (to become a better entrepreneur) | Author and psychologist Amy Edmondson
Oct 10, 2023
Games Workshop Founder: ‘I’d rather be a nerd than follow the herd’ | The Power of Play with Sir Ian Livingstone
Oct 02, 2023
Depop: $1.6 billion exit to Etsy & now he’s starting from 0 again I Founder, Simon Beckerman
Sep 26, 2023
Managing Europe's biggest YouTubers The Sidemen - to succeed become dispensable | Jordan Schwarzenburger
Sep 19, 2023
Exclusive: Planet Organic Founder reveals being pushed out & forced to sign gag orders before saving broken co | Renée Elliott
Sep 12, 2023
Dan Murray-Serter: How to build a personal brand whilst running a business (and why you should too)
Sep 05, 2023
‘Unicorn status? It’s meaningless!’ And why entrepreneurs are born not made | Evidation Founder Christine Lemke
Aug 29, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Pro baseball player who lost childhood dream & nearly lost gym business at critical moment - Burn Boot Camp Founder Devan Kline
Aug 24, 2023
Vinted: 2am house party idea that became Lithuania’s first unicorn | Co-Founder Milda Mitkute
Aug 22, 2023
My Favourite Failure: I should’ve listened to my gut! Lucy Cohen
Aug 17, 2023
Lying to the Secret Service, working for Obama & choosing NOT to be a unicorn | Dan Siroker, Co-Founder of Optimizely & Rewind AI
Aug 15, 2023
My Favourite Failure: "We signed a deal with the devil" Glenn Poulos
Aug 10, 2023
Leon Founder: “Imprisoned” by big mistake & how to figure out your best role | John Vincent
Aug 08, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Making millions after failing seven businesses in four years - Peter Kell
Aug 03, 2023
Theragun: Hacked together in 10/10 pain - the $400m garage invention
Aug 01, 2023
My Favourite Failure: We were too young, idealistic and couldn’t turn it off - Young Han
Jul 27, 2023
How to win at business and make a dent, with serial entrepreneur Daniel Priestley
Jul 25, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Happiness expert who was desperately unhappy running a happiness startup - Jennifer Moss
Jul 20, 2023
Elemis Founder: How UK's #1 skin brand got built after previous company went bankrupt - Sean Harrington
Jul 18, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Knowing when to give up is one of the hardest decisions you’ll face - Anita Abildgaard
Jul 13, 2023
Klarna Founder: Even $45.6 billion can’t buy happiness - Niklas Adalberth
Jul 11, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Burnt out twice and unable to make the most basic decisions - Oliva Co-Founder Sançar Sahin
Jul 06, 2023
IMDb Founder: Jeff Bezos's best advice & learnings from watching 15,000 films - Col Needham
Jul 04, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Estonia’s first CIO who needed open heart surgery after institutional failures pushed him to the brink - Taavi Kotka
Jun 29, 2023
My Favourite Failure: The side business which cost me £150k, my appetite, and my mental health - Gope Walker
Jun 22, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Startup lessons from several failures that added up to a unicorn - Wayflyer Co-Founder Aidan Corbett
Jun 15, 2023
Admiral: How to be a better boss from Co-Founder of £7 billion insurer - Henry Engelhardt
Jun 13, 2023
My Favourite Failure: We built cool stuff but it didn’t solve problems - Kim Little
Jun 08, 2023
COOK: Nearly bust to £100m a year revenue - with brother and sister in charge I Co-CEOs Ed Perry & Rosie Brown
Jun 06, 2023
My Favourite Failure: On the cusp of losing my company, marriage and myself - Mike Dunn
Jun 01, 2023
Just acquired Blinkist Founder on life-changing books, mistakes & finding your ikigai - Holger Seim
May 30, 2023
My Favourite Failure: Bombing on stage at a startup pitch final - AJ Keller
May 25, 2023
Elon Musk’s favourite blogger Tim Urban on how to build an audience, no matter your product
May 23, 2023
My Favourite Failure: How House of Holland was forced to bring in the administrators
May 18, 2023
Will AI save us or destroy us, and when? | Mo Gawdat
May 16, 2023
Sweetgreen: How to make a $1b farm-to-table restaurant chain, with Founder Jonathan Neman
May 09, 2023
The tricky first year being public - Dan Murray Serter, Chapter 5
May 02, 2023
How I Failed: I closed my business because my heart wasn’t in it - Jess Salamanca
Apr 27, 2023
Waze Founder - why you should teach your children to fail | Uri Levine
Apr 25, 2023
How I Failed: nearly dying, quitting singing career & losing $150k on book launch - David Wood
Apr 20, 2023
Why you shouldn't be an entrepreneur - Vorboss CEO and Founder Timothy Creswick
Apr 18, 2023
How to become wealthy - Secret Leaders X Making Money
Apr 17, 2023
How I Failed: I became an arrogant, egotistical knobhead - Dave Foreman, Managing Partner at Praetura Ventures
Apr 13, 2023
Linktree Founder - spinning side project into one of top 3 fastest growing companies in the world | Alex Zaccaria
Apr 11, 2023
How I Failed: Losing my temper, my marriage and needing emergency psychiatric help - Lisa Collinson
Apr 06, 2023
Extending human life, with Humanity Co-Founder and CEO Pete Ward
Apr 04, 2023
How I Failed: I walked into a room and fired 30 of the 38 people in the company - Retention.com Founder Adam Robinson
Mar 30, 2023
The secret to hiring the best - and getting hired - with Otta Co-founder, Sam Franklin
Mar 28, 2023
How I Failed: Multi-gold winning Paralympian Natasha Baker - having the most embarrassing fail you can imagine
Mar 23, 2023
War Paint Founder: I used to steal women’s makeup because of shame, hell of body dysmorphia & turning down all 5 Dragons - Danny Gray
Mar 21, 2023
Startup armageddon: Bank of England was going to allow SVB failure to kill UK startup industry until Founders & VCs stepped in
Mar 16, 2023
Wise Co-Founder: Being Skype's first employee and the difference between winners and losers
Mar 14, 2023
How I Failed: Pasta Evangelists Founder - previous luxury smartphone company was just too big a mountain to climb
Mar 09, 2023
Teenage prodigy who turned down Facebook as a 15 YO to take them on in VR - Unai Founder Maxim Perumal
Mar 07, 2023
How I Failed: forced to walk away with £5k in the bank and no shares - Matteo Grassi
Mar 02, 2023
How I Failed: death threats and journalists knocking on the door after growing too fast, with Matt Kelly
Feb 23, 2023
Former Welsh rugby captain Sam Warburton learns from golfing legend Paul McGinley - Secret Leaders X Captains
Feb 21, 2023
How I Failed: dumped two weeks before my dream wedding, with MBA Professor Cassie Holmes
Feb 16, 2023
Childs Farm: Beating Johnson & Johnson with a skincare brand started in a kitchen - Founder Joanna Jensen
Feb 14, 2023
How I Failed: “He is a cancer on what could be a great organisation” - Teach First Founder Brett Wigdortz on the worst feedback he’s ever received.
Feb 09, 2023
Why 50% of A&E visits are avoidable and how to solve the social care crisis - Cera Co-Founder Dr Ben Maruthappu
Feb 07, 2023
How I Failed: huge traction but held hostage by the business, with Christie Ellis
Feb 02, 2023
How I Failed: From $250 million to 0, with Shyp Founder Kevin Gibbon
Jan 26, 2023
How to improve your performance by looking after your brain and gut, with UK's top dietitian Sophie Medlin and leading neuroscientist Dr Tara Swart
Jan 24, 2023
How I Failed: Drinking to forget what was going on - Dom McGregor, Social Chain Co-Founder
Jan 19, 2023
What do you do when you get $300m? Start tackling the real problems facing humanity - Kernel Founder & CEO, Bryan Johnson
Jan 17, 2023
Key habits for growing your wealth, why finance should be as easy as learning to drive, and choosing renting over buying - author of bestseller 'How to Own the World' and Founder, Andrew Craig
Jan 10, 2023
Deliciously Ella: making new year habits stick, the issues of #girlboss culture and why she doesn’t see herself as an influencer - with Founder Ella Mills
Jan 03, 2023
How I Failed: Trying to please the wrong people, with Founder Rob Fitzpatrick
Dec 15, 2022
Who Gives A Crap: Going viral on a toilet and selling 300 million rolls of toilet paper, with Co-Founder Simon Griffiths
Dec 13, 2022
How I Failed: “We were like a cockroach company, we wouldn’t die”, with Founder Steven Renwick
Dec 08, 2022
The Black Farmer: managing your fear is the key to success, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones MBE
Dec 06, 2022
How I Failed: 250 VCs and not a single yes, with Pluto Co-Founder Alex Rainey
Dec 01, 2022
Back Market: From middle manager to $5b Founder, with Co-Founder & CEO Thibaud Hug de Larauze.
Nov 29, 2022
How I Failed: Losing $1.5 million on someone else’s dream, with entrepreneur Simon Squibb
Nov 24, 2022
How 7 interviews changed my life - our 200th episode, with Dan Murray-Serter
Nov 22, 2022
How I failed: So close to achieving my dream and then walking away, with Emma Sexton
Nov 17, 2022
The biggest problem in business - property legend and Yoo Co-Founder John Hitchcox
Nov 15, 2022
An Uncommon Criminal - Bad Money X Secret Leaders
Nov 14, 2022
How I failed: Half a million in debt and living in my car, with Founder Konrad Bergström
Nov 10, 2022
'I was 5 the first time I heard the word drugs': Nikki Wicks, CEO of The Body Coach and brother of Joe Wicks.
Nov 08, 2022
How I failed: ‘Never go in with the idea of money first’, with Founder Kurt Davis.
Nov 03, 2022
Ignore the press, why you should be excited about the world - billionaire psychedelic investor Christian Angermayer
Nov 01, 2022
How I failed: We were playing the wrong game, with Jonathan Anderson
Oct 27, 2022
Duolingo Founder: Being a genius, inventing CAPTCHA & getting 500m users - Luis Von Ahn
Oct 25, 2022
How I failed: Leaving my high paying job for my doomed startup with Jay Radia
Oct 20, 2022
How I failed: Not knowing when to accept defeat, with Mark Joseph
Oct 13, 2022
How I failed: Good options but not enough focus, with Yorkshire Meatball Co Founder Gareth Atkinson
Oct 06, 2022
Improbable: Inside the UK’s most secretive unicorn, with Co-Founder Herman Narula
Oct 04, 2022
How I failed: On the cusp of greatness when everything falls apart with Flash Pack Founder Radha Vyas
Sep 29, 2022
Dan Murray-Serter, Chapter 4: How to cross the chasm from idea to product
Sep 27, 2022
How I Failed: Unable to keep staff, with Founder Hayden Bloomfield
Sep 22, 2022
Fiverr: “Stop focusing on f*cking valuations, they mean nothing!” says Co-Founder Micha Kaufman
Sep 20, 2022
How I failed: The danger of doing business with friends, with Footlights Founder Jo Fisher
Sep 15, 2022
The Newsette's Daniella Pierson on how to prove your haters wrong
Sep 13, 2022
How I failed: “When people try to take things off you, you gotta fight back!” with Natterjack Whisky Founder Aidan Mehigan
Sep 08, 2022
THIS Co-Founder shares secret to making plant-based food that doesn’t suck - Andy Shovel
Sep 06, 2022
What it was really like building Apple with Steve Jobs, with Founder & CEO of FNDR James Vincent
Aug 30, 2022
SumUp: how to stumble into building an €8b company, with Co-Founder Marc-Alexander Christ
Aug 23, 2022
Octopus Energy: how to run a massive company with no HR function, with Founder and CEO Greg Jackson
Aug 16, 2022
Little Moons: how to become an overnight success - in 12 years, with Co-Founder Vivien Wong
Aug 09, 2022
How I failed: Launching a website no one visited with Founder Chris Donnelly
Aug 04, 2022
Sweatcoin: how to turn your worst moments into your best, with Co-Founder Oleg Fomenko
Aug 02, 2022
How I failed: the gym business which went under, with Shares Co-Founder Benjamin Chemla
Jul 28, 2022
Fanbytes: from growing up poor to selling for millions at 27, with Co-Founder Timothy Armoo
Jul 26, 2022
How I failed: not able to pay suppliers, staff or my mortgage with Founder Matt Jones
Jul 21, 2022
The man who predicted the rise of the influencer, with Gleam Futures Founder Dom Smales
Jul 19, 2022
How I failed: “I didn’t actually believe in the business, I just wanted to work for myself”, with Founder Amelia Sordell
Jul 14, 2022
Dan Murray-Serter, Chapter 3: ‘I’d decided life was meaningless’ - my battle with bulimia, anxiety, depression and insomnia
Jul 12, 2022
How I failed: “We were so convinced that we were among the few that would make it to IPO”, with multi-exit entrepreneur Touraj Parang
Jul 07, 2022
GoHenry: Creating a new category with other parents after kids racked up bills, with Co-Founder & COO Louise Hill
Jul 05, 2022
How I failed: “I didn’t want to tell them I’ve reached the end of my rope”, with journalist Emma Gunavardhana
Jun 30, 2022
What3Words: Why an injury can be the best thing to happen to you, with Co-Founder & CEO Chris Sheldrick
Jun 28, 2022
How I failed: short-form video platform that got crushed by TikTok, with Jess Butcher MBE
Jun 23, 2022
How I failed: the non-alcoholic drink which got pulled from the shelves, with Richard Clark, Founder of Drynks
Jun 16, 2022
How I failed: 37 jobs by the age of 24, with Krisi Smith, Founder of Bird & Blend
Jun 09, 2022
Beyond: shorting your rival’s stock for $700m but losing the war, with Founder & CEO Ian Strang
Jun 07, 2022
How I failed: Chris Cabrera on getting fired, getting pissed, and getting even
Jun 02, 2022
How the fat kid did it: Vikas Shah MBE on getting over obesity shame and suicide attempts - and what people get wrong about entrepreneurship
May 31, 2022
How I failed: Alex Farrell on winding down her startup after taking on a new industry
May 26, 2022
Tackling a problem that will affect half the planet as a first-time Founder, with Vira Health Co-Founder Andrea Berchowitz
May 24, 2022
How I failed: Giles Harrison quit his job to start his own thing but hit a big reality check
May 19, 2022
The Sandbox: wtf is the metaverse and how will it change the world, with Co-Founder and COO Sebastien Borget
May 17, 2022
How I failed: Amanda Perry went bankrupt after losing her baking business
May 12, 2022
Outbrain: closing a funding round with gunfire in the background -Co-Founder & Co-CEO Yaron Galai
May 10, 2022
How I failed: Steve Witt on losing everything… twice
May 05, 2022
BorrowMyDoggy: how to get people to trust strangers, with Founder and CEO Rikke Rosenlund
May 03, 2022
How I failed: Trinny Woodall on the fall of her first internet startup
Apr 28, 2022
Finimize: what you should’ve been taught in school about personal finance, with the FTSE 100’s youngest Exec and Founder/CEO Max Rofagha
Apr 26, 2022
Tripadvisor: how to lead a company for 22 years, with Founder and CEO Steve Kaufer
Apr 19, 2022
MasterClass: how to get over a stutter and attract A-listers like Anna Wintour and Martin Scorsese, with Founder & CEO David Rogier
Apr 12, 2022
Summit: how to pull off insane ideas like buying a ski resort - with Co-Founder Elliott Bisnow
Apr 05, 2022
“He offered me $1m and I was much more interested in that than being sued again” - Kieran O'Neill, Co-Founder and CEO of Thread
Mar 29, 2022
How to come up with the right business idea - Dan Murray-Serter, Chapter 2
Mar 22, 2022
Motorway: How to combine the best of bootstrapped and VC-backed thinking in one startup, with Co-Founder & CEO Tom Leathes
Mar 15, 2022
Pip & Nut: How to take your business from your kitchen table to most major supermarkets, with Founder & CEO Pip Murray
Mar 08, 2022
Ukrainian Founder Aleksandr Volodarsky on running a company in wartime
Mar 04, 2022
MedMen: what went wrong at the cannabis industry’s first unicorn, with Founder and former CEO Adam Bierman
Mar 01, 2022
DesignMyNight Co-Founder Nick Telson on gay shame and taking the business to exit… exactly as they planned
Feb 08, 2022
How to go from a side hustle to a multi-billion market leader, with Houzz CEO & Co-Founder Adi Tatarko
Feb 01, 2022
When your mental health forces you to leave the company you’ve just started - with Faire Co-Founder & COO Jeffrey Kolovson
Jan 25, 2022
“He threatened to kill my parents and I had to get a restraining order” - the real Dan Murray-Serter, Chapter 1
Jan 18, 2022
“By the end of 2015 we were just about out of money” - and now they’re worth $4B. How did Vuori do it, with CEO & Founder Joe Kudla
Jan 11, 2022
Curve: Building an $800m FinTech after being laughed out of the room by Mastercard, with CEO & Founder, Shachar Bialick
Jan 04, 2022
NetSuite: How Evan Goldberg scaled one of the world’s first cloud companies to a $9.3 billion exit
Dec 21, 2021
Welcome to the death industry, with Farewill’s Co-Founder and CEO, Dan Garrett
Dec 14, 2021
I went to sleep one day... and woke up gasping for air - Morning Brew Co-Founder Alex Lieberman
Dec 07, 2021
Vivino - how to disrupt a $400 billion industry that no one had really cracked, with Co-Founder Heini Zachariassen
Nov 30, 2021
They had two weeks of runway left and are now worth $1.5b - Loom Co-Founder and CTO Vinay Hiremath
Nov 23, 2021
When you think Google might sue you but instead they hire you as a 17 YO - Larry Gadea, CEO & Founder of Envoy
Nov 16, 2021
You don't start your company to end up in court, with Michelle You, Co-Founder and CEO of Supercritical and former Co-Founder of Songkick
Nov 09, 2021
Why do we clean our bottoms with toilet paper? With serial entrepreneur and Founder of Tushy Miki Agrawal
Nov 02, 2021
Kraken - from growing up poor to founding Europe’s largest crypto exchange, with Co-Founder & CEO Jesse Powell
Oct 26, 2021
Killing Kittens - the world famous sex party turning into a tech business, with Founder & CEO Emma Sayle
Oct 19, 2021
When and why to pivot your life, with doctor-turned-YouTuber Ali Abdaal
Oct 05, 2021
The startup that all other startups will want to succeed - MicroAcquire, with Founder & CEO Andrew Gazdecki
Sep 28, 2021
Lora DiCarlo - the sex tech startup that made Cara Delevingne orgasm three times in six minutes and got banned for being ‘obscene’ at CES 2019
Sep 21, 2021
Saved from the Nazis, she started a unicorn software company in the 1960s staffed with only women and just £6 - Dame Stephanie “Steve” Shirley
Sep 14, 2021
How exponential technologies will change the world - with founder, journalist and author, Azeem Azhar
Sep 07, 2021
Ethereum fallout - how the second biggest cryptocurrency in the world nearly didn’t happen, with Anthony Di Iorio, Co-Founder of Ethereum and Decentral
Aug 31, 2021
The other way to build a massive tech company - doing it slowly, with Airtable Co-Founder and CEO Howie Liu
Aug 23, 2021
How to build a business at 16, recover from a $1b dollar deal collapsing, and walk on hot coals, with multi-exit entrepreneur Norman Crowley
Aug 16, 2021
Overcoming crippling anxiety and how to get work/life balance right, with Mathilde Collin, Co-Founder and CEO of Front
Aug 10, 2021
Breaking startup scandal: how blood pressure medtech TLT scammed investors out of millions, with investigating reporter Sara McCorquodale
Aug 02, 2021
The American fixing the race problem in UK venture capital - Eric Collins, star of Channel 4’s The Money Maker and CEO of Impact X
Jul 26, 2021
How to build a $65b company, with Twilio Co-Founder and CEO Jeff Lawson
Jul 19, 2021
Fighting P Diddy, managing Gwen Stefani & Nas, what Roger Moore said in Monaco, and turning the music industry on its head, with Steve Stoute, Founder and CEO of United Masters
Jul 12, 2021
Building world’s best elite match-making service, with Rachel MacLynn, Founder and CEO of Vida
Jul 05, 2021
Learn the art of negotiation with Chris Voss, FBI’s former chief international hostage and kidnapping negotiator, and author of Never Split the Difference
Jun 28, 2021
How Gorillas became Europe’s fastest ever unicorn and what it means for your supermarket shopping, with Co-Founder and CEO Kağan Sümer
Jun 07, 2021
Healthily: Building a “moonshot” for the health of a billion people, with Co-Founder & CEO Matteo Berlucchi
May 31, 2021
Myprotein: How to bootstrap a £500 overdraft into a £350m exit, with Founder Oliver Cookson
May 24, 2021
Double Jeffardy: the story of Seedrs and its vetoed Crowdcube merger, with Co-Founder Jeff Lynn and CEO Jeff Kelisky
May 17, 2021
After his startup IPOd in record time everything fell apart, with Eve Sleep co-founder Kuba Wieczorek
May 10, 2021
Bolt: Markus Villig skipped university at 19 to take on Uber and become the youngest unicorn founder in Europe
May 03, 2021
A startup Covid tale: how accuRx got to ⅓ of UK vaccine bookings and 99% market share of GPs, with Co-Founder and CTO Laurence Bargery
Apr 26, 2021
Insights from 12 world class founders & thinkers for our 100th episode
Apr 19, 2021
How to land LeBron James & Michael Phelps in your first 100 customers - Will Ahmed, Founder of Whoop
Apr 12, 2021
Trinny Woodall reveals her surprising, untold startup journey - from dotcom bust to beauty boom today
Apr 05, 2021
Bloom & Wild: building world’s fastest growing flower company with Co-Founder & CEO Aron Gelbard
Mar 29, 2021
Four top female founders reveal what it’s really like in the startup hot seat
Mar 23, 2021
World’s youngest Dragon, with Michele Romanow, Co-Founder of Clearbanc
Mar 16, 2021
From living on benefits to the American dream, with Pipe Co-Founder Harry Hurst
Mar 09, 2021
Former Monzo CEO Tom Blomfield on falling out of love with your work
Mar 02, 2021
Trailer
Feb 23, 2021
CERN scientist turned founder - Natural Cycles CEO Elina Berglund
Feb 09, 2021
Grace Beverley, 23, author, influencer & founder of TALA & SHREDDY
Feb 02, 2021
16-year battle to £100m esports team, with Fnatic Founder Sam Mathews
Jan 26, 2021
From launch to IPO in 4 years, with Lemonade CEO Daniel Schreiber
Jan 19, 2021
Sir Ronnie Cohen: Refugee to father of British venture capital
Jan 12, 2021
Samantha Moyo - addict-turned-shaman who created sober raving
Jan 05, 2021
DECIEM - a tale of tragedy and beauty with CEO Nicola Kilner
Dec 29, 2020
Could a startup solve homelessness? With Beam CEO Alex Stephany
Dec 22, 2020
HubSpot - how to build a SAAS titan with CEO Brian Halligan
Dec 15, 2020
Tabitha Goldstaub - AI, pivots and losing your identity
Dec 08, 2020
Jim Collins - best business author of his generation
Dec 01, 2020
Atomic Habits - Little things can transform your life
Nov 24, 2020
Alain de Botton & Anne-Marie Huby: How to do good, better
Nov 17, 2020
Arlan Hamilton - from homeless to VC founder in 3 years
Nov 10, 2020
Damian Bradfield & Matt ‘Mills’ Miller: Mental Health and Entrepreneurship Live
Nov 03, 2020
John Cleese: How creativity can be applied to business
Oct 27, 2020
Beauty Pie: Meet The Forrest Gump Of Serial Entrepreneurs
Jul 28, 2020
Basecamp: The One Stop Shop For Remote Working
Jul 21, 2020
Pleo: The Startup That Became A Major European Company
Jul 14, 2020
Bulb: Starting The UK’s Fastest Growing Private Company
Jul 07, 2020
GoCardless: Finding The Hockey Stick Growth Curve
Jun 30, 2020
Charity: Water: From Club Promoter To Clean Water For 11 Million People
Jun 23, 2020
Karma & Olio: Capitalists Can Care About The Environment Too
Jun 16, 2020
Superior: Delving Into The Murky Science Of Racism
Jun 09, 2020
Secret Sales: the naked truth behind their entrepreneurial journey
Jun 03, 2020
One Billion Happy: Learning To Be Happy In A Pandemic
May 26, 2020
BrewDog: From Salty Sea Dog to Rebellious Beer Captain
May 12, 2020
allplants & Mindful Chef: Keeping The Nation Fed Through Covid-19
May 05, 2020
Stride.VC: Funding and Financing During A Pandemic
Apr 28, 2020
Slack: How to Work Remotely and Stay Productive with Cal Henderson
Apr 21, 2020
Tech Will Save Us & Koru Kids: Educating Children at Home Through Covid-19
Apr 14, 2020
Ali Parsa and Dr Rangan Chatterjee: The Global Impact of Coronavirus
Apr 07, 2020
Deliveroo: The Rise Of The Delivery Unicorn Company
Mar 10, 2020
Planet Organic, Hassle, Skimlinks & Seedcamp: Female Leadership and Equality for International Women's Day
Mar 03, 2020
Allbright: Connecting women, what’s the worst that can happen?
Feb 25, 2020
LoveFilm: Selling to Amazon - The Deal From Both Sides of The Table
Feb 18, 2020
OakNorth: The pathway to building a unicorn with Rishi Khosla
Feb 11, 2020
Alain de Botton: Finding Answers to Life’s Tricky Questions
Feb 04, 2020
Mumsnet and Jo Malone: Lifting the Lid on Life as a Female Entrepreneur
Jan 28, 2020
FabFitFun: Creating A Celebrity Swagbag Subscription Box Model
Jan 21, 2020
Calm.com and Babylon Health: The Future of Healthcare
Jan 14, 2020
Starling Bank, Resi and Just Eat: Funding and Financing Startups
Jan 07, 2020
Grenade: Disrupting the FMCG Industry with Alan and Juliet Barratt
Dec 10, 2019
Blippar and Shazam: A live chat with visionaries Jess Butcher and Dhiraj Mukherjee
Dec 03, 2019
Huel: How to Become a Food and Drink Millionaire with Julian Hearn
Nov 26, 2019
Photobox and Moonpig: Selling to your competitor and the art of the exit
Nov 19, 2019
Slack: Cal Henderson - An Engineer’s Fairytale Story
Nov 12, 2019
ClassPass: How Payal Kadakia Built A Fitness Empire
May 14, 2019
Vicki Saunders: On being a SheEO extraordinaire and implementing #radicalgenerosity
May 07, 2019
Founders4Schools and Scale Up Institute: Meet Sherry Coutu CBE, a Serial Entrepreneur and Angel Investor Turned Philanthropist.
Apr 30, 2019
Lovefilm - The Subscription King You Won’t Have Heard Of
Apr 22, 2019
Lastminute.com: meet Martha Lane Fox, the Baroness of tech who refuses to let her past define her future
Apr 15, 2019
Saasha Celestial-One: Tackling food waste through startup Olio
Apr 09, 2019
Founder of Stellar, Ripple and Mt Gox Jed McCaleb: On Cryptocurrency and the Hardships of Entrepreneurship
Apr 02, 2019
Candy Crush: creator Riccardo Zacconi on what it means to be the king of King
Mar 26, 2019
Uber's first invester - Jason Calacanis the GREATEST angel investor of all time (his words) and host of This Week In Startups
Mar 12, 2019
Clara Brenner: the VC investing in social entrepreneurs for a better urban future
Mar 05, 2019
Tim Draper: The Jedi Master of Venture Capital
Feb 26, 2019
Allbirds Co-Founder Tim Brown: Designing and Manufacturing the World’s Most Comfortable Shoes
Feb 19, 2019
Mumsnet: Justine Roberts on Saving Parents’ Lives
Feb 12, 2019
Starling Bank: Anne Boden Founder & CEO, an Innovative Challenger Bank That’s Exciting the Market
Feb 05, 2019
WeTransfer: Damian Bradfield tells us about the art of the stunningly straightforward file sharing
Jan 30, 2019
Jo Malone: The Alchemist Devoted to Spreading the Poetry of Scent
Jul 10, 2018
Vijay Eswaran: From Taxi Driver to Billionaire
Jul 04, 2018
JustGiving: Anne-Marie Huby, Always Guided by a Deep Sense of Purpose
Jun 26, 2018
Rankin: Seeing the World with Fresh Eyes
Jun 19, 2018
Planet Organic: How Founder Renée Elliott Wove Together Love and Food
Jun 05, 2018
Shazam: How Dhiraj Mukherjee Built One of the Most Downloaded Apps of All Time
May 29, 2018
Babylon Health: How Founder and CEO Dr Ali Parsa Plans to Make Healthcare a Utility for Every Human on Earth
May 15, 2018
Hassle.com: How Alex Depledge Co-Founded a Company that Sold for €32 Million
May 08, 2018
Charles Tyrwhitt: How Founder Nicholas Wheeler Went From an Aston Martin to Global Domination
May 01, 2018
Not On The Highstreet Co-Founder Holly Tucker
Apr 17, 2018
ustwo Co-Founder Mills on Building a Fampany (aka Family Company)
Apr 10, 2018
Café Rouge: How Co-Founder Karen Jones Creates Brands People Come Back To
Apr 03, 2018
Songkick: Pete Finlay on Burnout and Growing Too Fast
Mar 27, 2018
Project Everyone: How Gail Gallie reached 7 billion people in 7 days
Mar 20, 2018
Just Eat: How David Buttress Co-Founded and Built a £5.5bn Company
Mar 13, 2018
Draper Esprit: The first ever public VC fund - Simon Cook
Sep 12, 2017
Unruly - From lecturer to millionaire. Sarah Wood tells all.
Aug 25, 2017
Traffic & Copy: Vincent Dignan on how to growth hack your way to success
Aug 16, 2017
Mr & Mrs Smith: Tamara Lohan MBE taking on Expedia and Booking.com
Aug 09, 2017
Vorsprung Durch Technik - Sir John Hegarty (BBH) tells us where that came from!
Jul 13, 2017
Skimlinks: Alicia Navarro on how to build an advertising giant
Jun 29, 2017
Daniel Priestley -- Bestselling Author & Entrepreneur (Key Person of Influence, 24 Assets, Oversubscribed)
Jun 23, 2017
Seedcamp: Reshma Sohoni tells us how to be a successful VC
Jun 15, 2017
Social Chain: Steve Bartlett is young and hungry
Jun 05, 2017
Calm.com - Michael Acton Smith tells the story behind Calm, Moshi Monsters and Mind Candy,
May 12, 2017
Blippar: Jess Butcher building a business and a family
May 08, 2017
Photobox: Graham Hobson (Co-Founder) on how he built a £400m business
Apr 24, 2017
Entrepreneur First: How to build unicorns with Alice Bentinck
Apr 24, 2017
Moonpig: Nick Jenkins and the £120m card company
Apr 24, 2017