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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

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

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

Barclays CEO Venkat on running a bank through cancer

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

Nadine Merabi: why scaling up 800% nearly broke her fashion brand

Former England hockey player, Nadine Merabi explains how discipline, culture and a decade of grit built her luxury fashion 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