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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

How Pebl turned historic data into an AI goldmine

The HR specialist has found a smart way to turn its old work data into a modern asset for its employees and customers alike

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

How Zoom is scaling beyond the video call

Zoom UK & Ireland head Louise Newbury-Smith on the strategy behind the company's reinvention and what leaders can learn from it

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

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

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

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

Donat Rétif: How Loveholidays hit £350m revenue without a single plane

CEO Donat Rétif explains how Loveholidays tripled its revenue – and why the toughest market comes first in scale-up