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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

"I actually don't want to grow": The 800% surge that nearly broke Nadine Merabi's brand

From answering the phones under a fake name to building a board a decade in, Nadine Merabi shares the lessons behind scaling her brand

Blue Light Card's growth story: From start-up to 6 million members

How a discount platform for frontline workers became a fast-scaling commercial success without abandoning its mission

Little Moons: The overnight success that took 10 years

Founder Vivien Wong reveals the difference between riding a wave of sudden demand and being swept away by it

The pivot that saved Vinted

In his first-ever podcast interview, marketplace CEO Adam Jay explains how a single counterintuitive decision turned a failing start-up into a €8bn powerhouse

How Humble Crumble turned nostalgia into growth

Founder Kim Innes shares how customer feedback, viral moments and a simple love of crumble helped turn it into a profitable London success story

How to build an AI start-up in the UK

Nnamdi Emelifeonwu explains how a problem faced by a visually impaired colleague became Definely, a legal tech scale-up with 150 customers and $40m raised