E363 | Lee Smith: from £200k to £2m without spending a penny on growth
Lee Smith went from DJ to jeweller to running IT firms, discovering mergers that changed everything.
E362 | This founder lost everything in one bad deal, then built a million-person audience
Eric Partaker’s career looks like a cheat code from the outside. McKinsey, early Skype team. Multi-billion dollar exit to eBay.
E361 | Alex Cooper: The guy who built UK COVID testing now knows what your customers are thinking
This founder’s path makes no sense on paper… History degree at Oxford, trader in the City, and then one day
E360 | How to use AI to double your revenue (without hiring anyone)
Steve Phillips started Zappi in his back garden with a bottle of wine, and twelve years later, he’d scaled it
E359 | From 0 to £77m exit: Gerry Tombs on why your leadership team might be too big (and too old)
Gerry Tombs spent 25 years building ClearVision from a garage startup to a £77m tech consultancy with 100 people across
E358 | Why AI’s value is underestimated – and how Nick Holzherr built a 120-Person Global Team
Nick Holzherr proves AI and async work massively outperform traditional teams—15 people achieving what 50 could barely manage.
E357 | From banking to £20M eco brand: What Mark Jankovich learned about building through chaos
Mark Jankovich runs Delphis Eco, the UK’s leading eco-cleaning brand. He also runs a regenerative farm in Wiltshire and sits
E356 | From bedroom startup to $100m exit: Andrew Hulbert on scaling Pareto
Andrew Hulbert is the sort of bloke who makes you laugh… then makes you stop and think. He went from
E354 | Hard graft, AI and a dash of drama: How Kit Cox grew Enate
AI, graft and a bit of drama, how Kit Cox quietly built Enate into a decade-long “overnight success”.
E353 | Make the tech invisible, make the work flow — my conversation with Shelley Copsey of FYLD
I like founders who aren’t distracted by the sparkle. Shelley Copsey is one of them. She started in consulting on
