"I want to be the Air bnb of accessing compute, I want to be Uber of data centres. Having the worlds largest data centre without owning any physical servers. That's a massive market and that's a great opportunity for Yellow Dog". Gareth Williams is doing something int he tech field that no-one else is doing. The harnessing and monetising under-utilised computer power. Yellow Dog are currently delivering an unrivalled cloud rendering service to the animation, cgi industry and virtual reality indu...
Nov 25, 2017•24 min•Season 1Ep. 31
"Always head in the direction that you want to go. At the very beginning understand what you want to achieve,where you want to get to, because if you don't... you'll get lost. And that's what Ed and I have done from the very beginning. We knew we wanted to achieve all these things - so we stuck to that, as much as everyone said "you can't do it". So many people said you can't launch a brand new confectionary brand in the market. We said we can, we can do this. Think big. Dream big. Go for it." C...
Nov 22, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 30
"Then once we started to get some traction and proof of concept we got a huge amount of press. When we launched Milley Cyrus actually endorsed the product on our first ever event... took a picture of herself of having a champagne ice lolly...put it on the internet - but she forgot she said she hadn't been drinking! It created a frenzy of "back on the booze with these ice lollies" in the tabloid press which created huge coverage. It was this crazy kind of adventure that kicked it all off. I speak...
Nov 18, 2017•43 min•Season 1Ep. 29
"We get to November, we lose £24k in 30 days and I'm like "holy shit". I've been flying by the seat of my pants, investing more money than we've got. I've been blagging the bank to give me more money, and now we're losing nearly £1k per day going into the winter. And I've got a big team of chefs, two venues to run and genuinely shitting myself at this point. Maybe the bank were right, maybe I shouldn't have blagged and pushed this. It's lucky I didn't get into drugs..because I got into business ...
Nov 15, 2017•43 min•Season 1Ep. 28
"It wasn't until I was broke, felt like a loser on my sisters couch for two years and my father wasn't there to support me anymore that I realised I had to figure this out. It was a necessity for me to learn otherwise I probably wouldn't be where I am at. But it gave me this desire to be more, to reach a potential of another life that I never thought was possible...it's been a challenging..but beautiful journey." Lewis Howes was recognised by The White House and President Obama as one of the top...
Nov 08, 2017•1 hr 22 min•Season 1Ep. 27
"This feels like the main act. It feels like the first few decades of my career in technology were the warm up act, the support act. This is now the main act on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury. It's the main event on the Saturday night, this is the real revolution and it's an incredible time to be part of that and to have front row seats in a business like Xero. I'm having a ball." Gary Turner is co-founder and Managing Director of Xero Accounting in the UK. Under Gary's management, Xero has sc...
Nov 01, 2017•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 26
"I have so many different passions: fitness, fashion and food - the three "F's" - plus music of course. So it was a natural progression once I came off the x-factor...to get into fashion and release my own clothing line. And as soon as the W8 Gym came along... it's funny how timing works out, as when Nick approached me I was actually thinking of venturing into fitness. So as soon as I saw the product I just jumped on it..quite literally. This is what I was looking for. This was amazing. You may ...
Oct 25, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 25
"I remember when I wrote my business plan for crowdcube and I think I said that we would be a £3 million brand in 5 years time and in our second year we beat that... and suddenly the goalposts moved". On this weeks show I speak to two incredibly successful female entrepreneurs still in their twenties. Pippa Murray from Pip and Nut launched her nut butter brand in 2015 and now has retail sales of over £9 million and is stocked in over 3,000 stores from Fortnum & Mason to Selfridges. I also sp...
Oct 17, 2017•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 24
"It was at that moment that I realised that a buyer and seller had a need, and that the current operators in that market weren't fulfilling that need, for whatever reason. It really got me thinking about the secondary ticket market...and I actually stumbled across this £3 Billion opportunity. Twenty-Four year old tech entrepreneur Luke Massie sold his first business aged just 17 for £96,000. Having invested £50,000 of that in his next startup, Vibe Tickets is now valued at over £6,000,000. With ...
Oct 11, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 23
"We started an internet gaming company. We launched it, we built the product out, it was just like fantasy football. We launched it around Euro 2000, and then we just couldn't get any traction...the internet bubble burst." Andrew Walker is now on his 4th startup and has experienced the highs and lows of starting and growing software companies. His last startup, Clicktools, was bootstrapped for over 14 years from 3 to over 50 people, and was partly acquired by Survey Monkey before being fully ful...
Oct 04, 2017•56 min•Season 1Ep. 22
" Here's thirty day's recipes...breakfast, lunch, dinner. Buy this food, follow this food...and do you know what? People just wouldn't bloody do it! Well...if I did it for you would you do it? Well of course they said yes - I just didn't want my clients to fail." Award-winning businesswoman Barbara Cox founded Nutrichef from her kitchen table in 2004 before selling it eleven years later in 2015. Barbara grew Nutrichef from a local to a national operation providing healthy, nutritious meals deliv...
Sep 27, 2017•59 min•Season 1Ep. 21
" We had no exit plan. In fact we didn't even know the phrase exit strategy. We were three guys who wanted to set up a smoothie business and we had a hope that it would be successful but an assumption that it wouldn't, but we got started anyway...and it just grew and grew and grew. I think to be honest no-one was more surprised than we were really. " In this week's show I speak to Richard Reed who co-founded Innocent Drinks in 1999 and 15 years later sold to Coca Cola for north of $500 million. ...
Sep 20, 2017•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 20
"No-one at school had ever given me the attention and, needless to say, it was pretty miserable. I didn't enjoy school and I didn't enjoy being a teenager because of it...when you feel worthless when you're going to school just being that bad...its an awful feeling." I speak to Doug McMaster about how he dropped out of school at 16, overcoming both undiagnosed dyslexia and a lack of education to begin a food pilgrimage that culminated in him launching Silo in Brighton: Britain's first zero waste...
Sep 13, 2017•1 hr 11 min•Season 1Ep. 19
"We built it, we uploaded it to the App store and we were charging for it. So from day one we thought we've spent a ton of time on this, this is amazing, it's got so much value to it...and guess what? We sold like two. Where's the amazing story of when you make millions overnight? On this week's podcast I speak to Matt Doyle about his startup, Launchcloud. Matt first met Richard Branson as staff at an event where Richard launched his autobiography. Whilst getting a copy of the book signed, Matt ...
Sep 06, 2017•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 18
"We both saw this as an opportunity to really build something exceptional and I think we thought from day one up to today that this has the opportunity to be absolutely massive." This week I speak to Seedrs co-founder Jeff Lynn who's mantra is "Equity Crowdfunding done properly". With offices in five European countries and high profile investors like Andy Murray and Richard Branson, Jeff believes crowdfunding offers fantastic opportunities for both investors and private companies looking for inv...
Aug 30, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 17
"It's cool to be a foodie now. Whereas it used to be a very niche thing, all over now..whether it's pop-up food markets or open kitchen restaurants... food on TV, and in the real world, is a kind of cool space to be in." On this week's show I speak to Ben, Jamie, Mike and Barry who launched SORTED food in 2010 after finishing university. The Wall Street Journal calls their show "food porn meets social media" whilst The Independent calls them "the food equivalent of Instagram or Spotify". They de...
Aug 23, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 16
“When you’re 32 and getting home at five in the morning, having dealt with police and then a fight outside the club at 3am, you think there must be a better way.” After a decade in the nightclub business hosting events from Barbados to Bournmeouth, serial entrepreneur Josh Simons has found a better way and is celebrating four years with the Chicken and Blues restaurant chain he co-founded with business partner Steve Crawford. As a teenager Josh played golf for England, but with his family's busi...
Aug 16, 2017•52 min•Season 1Ep. 15
" I will be bitterly disappointed if I retire or die doing what I currently do for a living" That realisation was all the incentive that Conker Spirit founder Rupert Holloway needed to quit his job and launch his own business. As Rupert says, "There has never been a better time for you to do your own thing, learn new things, follow your passion or launch your own business". Join us and our 'live' sold out audience to hear Rupert's story on how he quit his safe career as a chartered surveyor to b...
Aug 12, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 14
"We started with a problem. With how it is. And we created a vision of how it should be. And I think if everybody did that around something they cared about then the world would be a very different place." Ruth Anslow is on a mission to create a new type of supermarket chain with Hisbe - How It Should Be. And Claire Timbrell is also on a mission to change how groups of people socialise with her escape room - The MacGuffin project. First up is Ruth, who with her sister Amy Anslow, had a dream of ...
Aug 09, 2017•50 min•Season 1Ep. 13
"So I was in New York at the time filming & Ed phoned me up..and it was our first big one...and you could walk into the shops and see your own brand there on the shelves...& that was so significant at that time as we would have had another two or three months...before we went bust." I talk to the founders of Candy Kittens about their health conscious sweets that aren't just for kids. Candy Kittens was an idea that Made In Chelsea star Jamie Laing originally had but, after meeting entrepr...
Aug 02, 2017•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 12
"Hey, I was a part-time mermaid, I’ve been to Australia, come home and now I make this iced coffee that I’m really proud of. Do you want to come on this journey with us?" Join Jim and our sold-out 'live' audience in Bournemouth as he recounts his journey, as well as providing tips on how to grow your brand and how to pitch to buyers for your product/service. Fresh from pitching his iconic drinks brand, Jimmys Iced Coffee to the Co-Op in Manchester, Jim jumped in his car and drove 4.5 hours back ...
Aug 01, 2017•58 min•Season 1Ep. 11
"I suffered a pretty heavy burnout...anti-depressents, the whole thing. On the outside it probably looked like I was on top of the world, but deep down I was working 16 hours a day, living on coffee, wasn't working out, wasn't eating well..I ended up hiring eight people..to remove myself from the business." Chris Ducker is a serial entrepreneur who moved from London to the Philippines seventeen years ago and now owns and operates three businesses employing 450 people including a recruitment cons...
Jul 26, 2017•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 10
"...I would go up on stage and I would trip and my nose would bleed... and then people would throw tomatoes at me..or even worse, potatoes, and then I would wake up in a ditch somewhere..naked". Pat Flynn has been called "the crash test dummy of online business" and in this interview you'll find out why. Forbes named him as one of the most transparent leaders in business and the New York Times profiled him as a case study in smart online business building. He has a top-ranked business podcast wi...
Jul 19, 2017•55 min•Season 1Ep. 9
"Work hard..any idea that you have can be come a reality just by sharing it and getting people inspired". Conker Spirit are at the forefront of the Gin Revolution. Founder Rupert Holloway talk us through his journey from self confessed "miserable surveyor" to happy head conkerer. Rupert has taken Conker Spirit from a one band foraging, distilling and marketing to building a team with his best friend and getting their gin stocked everywhere from farm shops to Fortnum and Masons. Also on this epis...
Jul 12, 2017•37 min•Season 1Ep. 8
"I can't accept failure. I can't have it. I will not accept failure..I'm not scared. I'm not frightened and I'm not going to fail". So spoke Ted Baker founder Ray Kelvin in the 2nd part to my live Q and A with him. Ray tells the story of how he started with one shop in Glasgow. He brings us right up to date with Ted Baker currently valued at £1.6 Billion, as well as his latest ventures. These include investing £80 million into the UK's number 1 Hilton hotel which he owns as well as launching Thi...
Jul 05, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 7
On today's show I'm joined by the billionaire founder of Ted Baker, Ray Kelvin cbe I hosted a 'live' Q & A with Ray at a sold out www.thiswork.space in Bournemouth at Ray's first brand new co-working space, set to rival We Work. We started with a question direct from Richard Branson on Necker Island and continued for over two hours. I have therefore divided the show into two parts. In Part 1 Ray tells us how he still works every saturday in a Ted Baker store, and still doesn't even own a com...
Jun 29, 2017•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Ollie Forsyth is the 'dyslexic entrepreneur'. Ollie first demonstrated his entrepreneurial traits at the age of just six years old when he started charging his parents 20p for making them tea and coffee..and again for refills. He formed his first business at the age of just 13, and despite being diagnosed with dyslexia, has gone on to form a number of companies, including launching The Budding Entrepreneur's Club in 2016 in the Shard with Levi Roots among others. Ollie talks to me about the impo...
Jun 20, 2017•43 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Jim Cregan joins me to talk about how he went from British building site to Australia and back again. In the process launching his own brand of Iced Coffee after not being able to find it in the UK when he came back from OZ. You can now get Jimmysicedcoffee in Tescos, Sainsbuys, Waitrose, Selfridges and even in Animal's clothing shops. We talk brand building through University tastings, his Ride Club, Cinema Club and festivals. Also on todays show are sisters and Virgin StartUp ambassadors Micha...
May 16, 2017•53 min•Season 1Ep. 4
John Lee Dumas went from serving as a a US Army Officer in Iraq to generating over $10m in under 5 years. JLD has interviewed nearly 2,000 of the world's most successful entrepreneurs: from Gary Vaynerchuk to Tony Robbins, Tim Ferris and Seth Godin. He joins me on todays show to talk about the lessons he has taken from these interviews and has implemented in his own business - one of the world's top-ranked business podcasts offering free courses in webinars, podcasting and funnel-building. He al...
May 16, 2017•41 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Vin has launched two websites that got to over a million visitors a month, got into the Techstars accelerator, was voted best talk at SXSW V2V 2016. His debut book/course "Secret Sauce: A step-by-step guide to growth hacking" has raised hundreds of thousands via crowdfunding and he joins us on todays show to tell us how he is able to grow early-stage companies through a combination of rapid social media growth, guerrilla community management tactics, and growth hacks which have seen companies go...
May 16, 2017•48 min•Season 1Ep. 2
