My Favourite Failure: Chef who got rave reviews, celeb diners and a bustling business but couldn't sustain it
Sameer Vaswani is the Co-Founder of Prodigy Chocolate, a company that’s taking classics like Snickers and making them more modern and child friendly, like less sugar and more eco packaging. Before thi...
16 Nov 202311min
Cobra beer Founder - how to get through crises having nearly lost his business three times | Lord Karan Bilimoria
Lord Karan Bilimoria is the Co-Founder of Cobra beer, the best selling beer in Indian restaurants around the UK. We all pray for those moments we find a gap in a market we can exploit. That’s exactly ...
14 Nov 20231h 7min
My Favourite Failure: Entering a death spiral - Rico Mandel
Sometimes in business you pass the point of no return and you don't even know it. Someone who knows all too well is Rico Mandel, the Founder of Miz En Place, a successful foodie marketplace... but Ric...
9 Nov 202313min
How to know if it's the right time to sell - UK's greatest record producer behind Sade, Sting, Clapton etc. | Sir Robin Millar
Sir Robin Millar is arguably the UK's leading record producer, having worked with the likes of Sade, Randy Crawford, Eric Clapton, Sting, The Grateful Dead and many others. He produced the Atlanta Oly...
7 Nov 20231h 4min
My Favourite Failure: From the outside my lingerie business looked amazing but I’d got the key numbers wrong - Emma Parker
Emma Parker is the Founder of Playful Promises, a company behind a few lingerie and swimwear brands - including a lingerie brand of the same name. What’s funny though is she lost that business despite...
2 Nov 202313min
Shane Parrish: How to think clearer & make better decisions
Is there a more important skill for business leaders than making good decisions? We’re not sure there is. Yeah, you need vision, communication skills and hopefully some empathy - but without good deci...
31 Okt 202344min
My Favourite Failure: Debt collectors at the door after over-extending too fast - Alex Chisnall
Sometimes we put on a brave face when it's the opposite of what we should be doing. Alex Chisnall is the Founder of a Podpreneur, a podcast agency, and the host of the Screw It Just Do it podcast. He’...
26 Okt 202316min
How to fail well (to become a better entrepreneur) | Author and psychologist Amy Edmondson
Amy Edmondson has spent her life dedicated to studying failure and psychological safety. It’s her belief that the most successful cultures are those in which you can fail openly, without your mistakes...
10 Okt 202354min
