Trustpilot CEO Adrian Blair: "Perfection doesn't build trust"
Trustpilot's CEO reveals why owning your mistakes in public builds more trust than never making any
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
01 October 2026
Podcasts
Kate Prince: How Ancient + Brave went from kitchen table to £54m turnover
Kate Prince shares her scale-up story – and why the people who take you to £10m may not be the ones who take you to £100m
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
07 October 2026
Eric Ries: How to scale without losing your soul
The Lean Startup author's new book argues that growth itself can corrupt founders' missions – and lays out the governance tricks to stop it happening to you.
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Dougal Shaw
Date
22 September 2026
Sharmadean Reid: How a pandemic pivot led to 39BC
From a pandemic-forced pivot to a Cleopatra-themed birthday party, Sharmadean Reid takes us through the journey of her fourth business
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Dougal Shaw
Date
15 September 2026
Sharmadean Reid: The anthropologist mindset that built a business empire
Sharmadean Reid explains how a gap in the nail art market and one bold pitch built the foundations of WAH Nails
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Dougal Shaw
Date
09 September 2026
Paula MacKenzie: PizzaExpress CEO shares her turnaround playbook
Seven CEOs in 11 years, a billion-pound restructuring and 73 closures. Paula MacKenzie on how she's turning PizzaExpress around
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Dougal Shaw
Date
01 September 2026
Stephen Johnson on the cash rule that saved Quooker UK
From rejection to £100m in revenue, Quooker UK's MD Stephen Johnson on the cash discipline and the help that got him there
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
25 August 2026
Emmie Faust: From £200k on Dragons' Den to Female Founders Rise
Emmie Faust on delegation gone wrong, bootstrapping over VC money and closing the funding gap for female founders
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
18 August 2026
Mehma Bridgen: Scaling The Fuel Store to £100m
The Fuel Store co-founder on the discipline behind scaling to £100m, cold-calling customers and hiring a successor
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
12 August 2026
Nick Jenkins on building Moonpig and selling it for £120m
The founder and Dragons' Den investor on why he's never set a marketing budget and the price change that turned Moonpig around overnight
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
05 August 2026
Dame Irene Hays on grief, rescuing Thomas Cook and growing Hays Travel
The company's owner on leading Hays Travel through Thomas Cook, Covid and personal tragedy, without ever borrowing a penny
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
29 July 2026
Mia Drennan: The city temp who built a billion-pound business
The founder of GLAS built a category the banks didn't want, then scaled it past a unicorn valuation
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
22 July 2026