About this episode

Sam Smith discusses her journey from building FinCap to leading Super Scalers, focusing on empowering underrepresented founders.

Send us Fan Mail Sam Smith spent 24 years building FinCap from a single desk and a phone into a London-listed investment bank, becoming one of the few women to lead a public financial business in the UK. She bet on small caps when the big banks were running for the exit, kept hiring when her own team thought she was reckless, and walked away at her best year ever. Now she's putting everything she learned into Super Scalers, a community helping underrepresented founders scale past £50 million....

People in this episode

Host: Alan Smith

Guest: Sam Smith

Topics covered

• investment banking
• entrepreneurship
• female leadership
• small caps
• business scaling

Keywords

• FinCap
• investment bank
• small caps
• entrepreneur
• Super Scalers
• female founder
• business growth

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: FinCap, Super Scalers, Northern Rock, London

Places: UK

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