Insights

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

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 running a bank through cancer

The CEO has added roughly £40bn in shareholder value to Barclays, all while battling cancer

"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

Adam Jay and the "massive pivot" that saved Vinted

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