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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

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

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

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

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

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

Agentic commerce: Why B2B haggling is ripe for disruption

Futurologist Magnus Lindkvist argues agentic commerce will hit B2B harder than retail. We unpack the data, the risks and what it means for your business

Why most company values are dead the moment they're hung on a wall

Founders and an organisational psychologist on what it actually takes to turn company values into daily behaviour, not boardroom slogans

Why Motorway's CEO wants less AI output

Tom Leathes on why AI-generated presentations no longer impress anyone and how the unicorn uses Claude to solve real problems instead

Inside Maslow's: The coworking club blurring wellness and work

A growing chain of premium coworking spaces in London is tapping into an emerging consumer need, which could be relevant at all price points

Airtasker CEO: AI bosses are selling fear, not science

The AI bosses warning about their own products aren't scientists, says Tim Fung. They're salespeople who found a better pitch.

The beauty of AI in action: Hair Syrup and Dr Adams Aesthetics

Entrepreneurs in the beauty space are experimenting with AI in different ways to scale their businesses

Ask Richard: Managing the conversations founders avoid

Sir Richard Harpin answers your question on talking openly about failure, deciding what to keep centralised when you expand abroad and more

LinkedIn's UK boss: Why being small is suddenly a genuine AI advantage

Janine Chamberlin on why the country's smaller businesses are hiring and founding at record rates, even as the wider jobs market cools

Return to EU is no silver bullet for UK business

As calls grow louder to rejoin the EU, Szu Ping Chan argues the cost, time and control implications make it a bad bet for business

What Keir Starmer's downfall should teach every CEO about vision

The outgoing prime minister had 30 priorities, four chiefs of staff and 15 major U-turns. What he never had was a vision anyone could follow

The attention crisis costing your business more than you think

Constant connectivity is eroding focus, productivity and creativity across the modern workplace

The productivity myth that’s holding UK leaders back

The real reason you’re not as productive as you want to be, according to Jake Humphrey

Martha Lane Fox on why AI's future must be built by all of us

She made a name for herself during the dot-com boom. Now, she's helping to set the UK's AI agenda

Nails.INC founder Thea Green: Don’t sweat the small stuff

Thea Green, one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs in the beauty and self-care space, shares her advice

Rio Ferdinand: How to win at business pitches

The former Manchester United and England footballer on how to convince people to back your business ideas

Belu Water CEO on the little-known tax causing 'big headaches' for business

Natalie Campbell explains how the extended producer responsibility scheme is hitting her business

The Social Hub: A unique British experiment in property

A building in Glasgow is testing out a new concept, combining a co-working space with accommodation for hotel guests and a hall of residence for students. Can they all get along?

JustPark founder: I'm delighted not to be CEO anymore

Anthony Eskinazi is one of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs in the sharing economy sector, but there's things he wishes he knew much earlier to scale.