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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

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

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

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

How Loveholidays tripled revenue without owning a single plane

Loveholidays' CEO Donat Rétif on why the toughest market comes first and the crisis rule that paid off

Barclays CEO Venkat on turning around a FTSE 100 bank and leading through cancer

He's added roughly £40bn in shareholder value to Barclays and has some pointed things to say about what's still holding British businesses back

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

The Brexit warning hiding in a Mayfair housekeeper's pay packet

When the wealthy decide a country has lost its pull, the people who staff their homes know first

Sister: The Manchester hub looking to spin out success

A multi-million pound science and tech hub in Manchester is showcasing the city’s ambitions and the spirit of a new kind of entrepreneurialism

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

Ask Richard: Capital

Sir Richard Harpin shares practical advice on debt equity and choosing the right funding strategy for growth

Martha Lane Fox: 'He said, "We're done with women"'

Martha Lane Fox is a tech trailblazer who first made her name in the dot com era. Thirty years on, she still encounters gender bias in her industry

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.