Sharmadean Reid: How a pandemic pivot led to 39BC
From a pandemic-forced pivot to a Cleopatra-themed birthday party, Sharmadean Reid takes us through the journey of her fourth business
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Dougal Shaw
Date
15 September 2026
Agentic commerce: Why B2B haggling is ripe for disruption
Futurologist Magnus Lindkvist argues agentic commerce will hit B2B harder than retail. We unpack the data, the risks and what it means for your business
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Dougal Shaw
Date
10 September 2026
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
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Dougal Shaw
Date
09 September 2026
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
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Dougal Shaw
Date
01 September 2026
Ask Richard: Managing the conversations founders avoid
Sir Richard Harpin answers your question on talking openly about failure, deciding what to keep centralised when you expand abroad and more
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
01 September 2026
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
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Dougal Shaw
Date
27 August 2026
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
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
25 August 2026
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
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
18 August 2026
Why most company values are dead the moment they're hung on a wall
Founders and an organisational psychologist on what it actually takes to turn company values into daily behaviour, not boardroom slogans
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
17 August 2026
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
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Dougal Shaw
Date
13 August 2026
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
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
12 August 2026
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
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Josh Dornbrack
Date
29 July 2026
