Elemis Founder: How UK's #1 skin brand got built after previous company went bankrupt - Sean Harrington
Sean Harrington is the Co-Founder and CEO of Elemis, one of the best-known skincare brands in the UK. Before being bought by L’Occitane four years ago for $990 million, they were the number one Britis...
18 Jul 202345min
My Favourite Failure: Knowing when to give up is one of the hardest decisions you’ll face - Anita Abildgaard
Anita Abildgaard is the Founder and CEO of Iris AI, a company helping humans make sense of the world’s scientific knowledge. She’d always wanted to be a Founder and lead companies. In fact that was h...
13 Jul 202314min
Klarna Founder: Even $45.6 billion can’t buy happiness - Niklas Adalberth
Niklas Adalberth is the co-founder and former Deputy CEO of Klarna. The massive Swedish fintech provides payment services for online shops like ASOS being able to offer their customers buy now pay lat...
11 Jul 202349min
My Favourite Failure: Burnt out twice and unable to make the most basic decisions - Oliva Co-Founder Sançar Sahin
Sançar Sahin is the Co-Founder of Oliva, a mental health startup which has just raised £4.3 million at the time of putting this together. It’s a B2B which helps companies give mental health support to...
6 Jul 202312min
IMDb Founder: Jeff Bezos's best advice & learnings from watching 15,000 films - Col Needham
Did you know that IMDb was one of the first 100 websites EVER? Yeah it's mad, and it's still going - and it's always in the top 50 most visited sites in the world. Welcome to the mad world of IMDb Fou...
4 Jul 202359min
My Favourite Failure: Estonia’s first CIO who needed open heart surgery after institutional failures pushed him to the brink - Taavi Kotka
Taavi Kotka is the Founder and CEO of Koos.io but he shot to fame as the CEO of one of the largest software development companies in the Baltics. After he sold the company in a big money deal in 2012,...
29 Jun 202314min
My Favourite Failure: The side business which cost me £150k, my appetite, and my mental health - Gope Walker
Gope Walker is the Founder and CEO of Data Kraken, a data consultancy that helps companies make valuable, data-driven decisions. But whilst Data Kraken is making more money than ever today, the ventur...
22 Jun 202315min
My Favourite Failure: Startup lessons from several failures that added up to a unicorn - Wayflyer Co-Founder Aidan Corbett
Entrepreneurs need to reframe failure as the norm, says Aidan Corbett. He is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wayflyer, a unicorn which provides funding for ecommerce companies. Not too shabby, and along the...
15 Jun 202312min
