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- 🇬🇧GB · Entrepreneurship#1325K to 30K
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- 🇹🇷TR · Entrepreneurship#121500 to 3K
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13K to 62K🇬🇧48%🇮🇱16%🇨🇱16%+4 more - Active Followers
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The CEO who doubled Blue Light Card membership in 3 years
Jun 23, 2026
Unknown duration
How Little Moons went from family bakery to TikTok star
Jun 16, 2026
Unknown duration
Vinted nearly went bust, now it's worth €8 billion
Jun 9, 2026
37m 58s
How Humble Crumble went from viral video to stores across London
Jun 2, 2026
38m 12s
How to build an AI startup in the UK
May 26, 2026
46m 18s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/23/26 | ![]() The CEO who doubled Blue Light Card membership in 3 years | Alidad Moghaddam, CEO of Blue Light Card the UK's leading discount platform for frontline and emergency service workers, talks to Sir Richard Harpin about what he's learned on his journey as a first-time chief executive and from his experiences in a private equity environment. Blue Light Card has grown from a small startup founded by a serving police officer into a platform supporting more than six million frontline workers. From expanding into Australia, to building a high-performance culture rooted in radical candour and mission-driven hiring, Alidad offers tips for any business leader scaling a business. He shares the lessons he learned helping grow Trainline and taking it to a successful IPO, what the perspective of an angel investor taught him, and why culture matters most during periods of mergers and acquisitions. He explains why being clear about the strategy and vision, defining the operating model and making the difficult calls early are key to success.Subscribe to the Business Leader Podcast and sign up to our free weekly newsletter at businessleader.co.uk/newslettersBusiness Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/26 | ![]() How Little Moons went from family bakery to TikTok star | Vivian Wong, co-founder of Little Moons, shares the unfiltered story of building the UK's most talked-about mochi ice cream brand — from a small family bakery to a £27mn pound run rate overnight.Vivian talks to Sir Richard Harpin, founder of Homeserve, about how a single TikTok video sent shoppers queuing outside Tesco at 7am, and why ten years of groundwork meant Little Moons was ready to seize the moment rather than be consumed by it. She reveals her learnings from a costly factory mistake — and the sunk cost fallacy that nearly upended the business. Vivian also shares the personal catalyst that made her start the business, the reality of co-founding with a sibling, and how she now lives by a simple rule: no regrets.Themes covered:Why owning your manufacturing is a genuine competitive advantage in the FMCG worldHow Vivien bootstrapped Little Moons for 12 years before taking private equity investmentWhen and how to bring in a professional CEOThe difference between a coach and a mentor, and why you need bothBusiness Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/9/26 | ![]() Vinted nearly went bust, now it's worth €8 billion✨ | marketplace growthleadership lessons+4 | Adam Jay | VintedBoston Consulting Group+1 | France | Vintedmarketplace+8 | — | 37m 58s | |
| 6/2/26 | ![]() How Humble Crumble went from viral video to stores across London✨ | entrepreneurshipbusiness journey+3 | Kim Innes | Humble CrumbleRoyal Family | LondonSpitalfields market | Humble CrumbleKim Innes+5 | — | 38m 12s | |
| 5/26/26 | ![]() How to build an AI startup in the UK✨ | AI in the legal industryBuilding a startup+4 | Nnamdi Emelifeonwu | DefinelyAnthropic | UKLondon | AI startuplegal tech+5 | — | 46m 18s | |
| 5/19/26 | ![]() From €2.5bn to €16bn: How Sephora redefined beauty retail✨ | Procter and GambleWork-Life balance+5 | Chris de Lapuente | LVMHSephora+1 | — | SephoraLVMH+7 | — | 51m 26s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() Using AI to fight cyber risk✨ | InsuranceArtificial Intelligence+4 | Jonathan Spry | Envelop Risk | BristolLondon | cyber riskAI+7 | — | 43m 22s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() The art of the possible: Scaling to £240M✨ | LeadershipBuilding and scaling a business+5 | Kai Feller | Bark.comThe 7 habits of highly effective people | — | business modelgrowth+7 | — | 38m 49s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Can BT beat the odds?✨ | leadershipbusiness turnaround+3 | Allison Kirkby | BTProcter & Gamble+1 | — | BTAllison Kirkby+3 | — | 46m 59s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() How the UK was Omazed✨ | storytellingentrepreneurship+3 | Matt Pohlson | Omaze | UKUS | OmazeMatt Pohlson+5 | — | 39m 31s | |
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| 4/14/26 | ![]() 'Value people - especially those closest to the customer'✨ | leadershipcustomer service+4 | Phil Bentley | MitieBritish Gas | UKLondon+1 | leadershipcustomer+5 | — | 39m 54s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() From £500 To Millions: The Mindset That Changed Everything✨ | entrepreneurshippodcasting+3 | Harry Stebbings | 20VCBusiness Leader | — | podcastingentrepreneurship+3 | — | 39m 59s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() "I can't quit" - Olivia Jenkins built a jewellery brand in honour of her mum✨ | entrepreneurshipjewellery business+4 | Olivia Jenkins | Business LeaderCovid+1 | — | jewellerybusiness growth+5 | — | 44m 39s | |
| 3/26/26 | ![]() "I don't like being switched off" - Stuart Machin, CEO of M&S, on work-life balance✨ | leadershipwork-life balance+3 | Stuart Machin | Marks and SpencerBusiness Leader | — | Stuart MachinMarks and Spencer+4 | — | 25m 37s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() 'From €200m to €24bn - How I built a global glass empire'✨ | business growthleadership+3 | Gary Lubner | Belron | South Africa | BelronGary Lubner+5 | — | 46m 17s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() Rentokil CEO: ‘This industry is unglamorous but gets in your blood’✨ | pest controlbusiness strategy+3 | Andy Ransom | Rentokil InitialICI | — | RentokilCEO+5 | — | 49m 33s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Dash Drinks: The challenger brand scaling patiently✨ | challenger brandgrowth strategy+4 | Alex Wright | Dash WaterBusiness Leader | — | Dash Watersparkling water+5 | — | 46m 03s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() The Beauty Tech Group: From start-up to IPO | The Beauty Tech Group is a British business success story. Laurence Newman founded the home-use beauty tech firm in Manchester in 2009. It’s probably best-known for its LED face masks for skincare treatments. In late 2025 it went public on the London Stock Exchange, valued at more than £300m. Newman explains to Dougal Shaw how he scaled the business, in an emerging category that not everyone had faith in. He set out by focusing on four key pillars of aesthetic technology, including LED and radio frequency, to offer clinical results at home – treatments usually associated with expensive aesthetic clinics. He shares insights on the challenges of securing investment in a niche market and the complexities of managing international regulation and manufacturing and supply chains for a global e-commerce brand.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Ben Askins of Gaia: Scaling and exiting with a healthy company culture | Ben Askins is the co-founder of Gaia, a green technology company that builds online tools for companies within the environmental space. But he cut his teeth as an entrepreneur by creating a digital marketing business for luxury brands, which he scaled and successfully exited. He shares with Richard Harpin practical advice on interview techniques to hire the best candidates, building an engaged and happy workforce and how to scale a start-up with a future exit in mind.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() Sam Stoffel and Outplayed: Betting against yourself to make millions | Sam Stoffel is the entrepreneur who founded the matched betting platform Outplayed, taking a punt on the online betting space. He explains to Richard Harpin how he bootstrapped a simple idea into a multi-million pound enterprise by copying and refining existing business models and mastering digital marketing. He shares the leadership lessons he picked up along the way, including the dangers of "shiny object syndrome". The interview explores the technicalities of subscription-based revenue, the risks of rebranding while you scale, and the importance of well-planned delegation. Stoffel also discusses his exit and transition to his latest venture, Subspot, sharing his ambition to scale a globally successful software platform.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Tenzing: How to scale a challenger energy drink | Hub van Bockel shares his story with Richard Harpin about founding Tenzing, a natural energy drink brand inspired by Himalayan sherpas. Drawing on his marketing background at Unilever, MTV, and Red Bull, van Bockel explains how he identified a gap in the market for low-sugar, plant-based alternatives to artificial energy drinks. But how do you take on incumbents in such a competitive space? He explains his bootstrapping strategy, which to begin with focused on niche communities like climbing and running. He also explains how he slowly wooed major retailers like Tesco and Sainsbury's. But it all really began with a pitch deck he presented to convince his wife of the risks.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Caspar Lee: ‘How I turned attention into business leverage’ | In this episode of The Business Leader podcast, Richard Harpin interviews Caspar Lee, the YouTube pioneer who successfully transitioned from influencer to powerhouse entrepreneur. Lee reveals the strategies behind co-founding Influencer.com, a marketing agency with multi-million pound revenues and his subsequent move into venture capital with Creator Ventures. The conversation explores vital insights for scaling businesses. Lee explains why hiring 'big company' veterans can backfire in mid-sized firms. He also outlines how partnerships can be used to drive organic growth when building communities. He also shares his tips for personal branding, reflecting on the strategies he used to build his own following.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Rory Sutherland: The advertising guru's tips to scale your business | Is cost cutting really a strategy or is it quietly holding businesses back? In this episode of the Business Leader podcast, Sir Richard Harpin sits down with advertising and marketing legend Rory Sutherland. Sutherland challenges some of the most deeply held assumptions in modern business, from efficiency and procurement to marketing, pricing, and customer experience – all through the lens of a marketer. Drawing on decades of experience at the advertising group Ogilvy and in behavioural science, Rory explains why an obsession with cost reduction and short-term efficiency can destroy long-term value, and why businesses need to think in terms of opportunity, not just spreadsheets. This episode is essential listening for founders, CEOs and senior leaders who want to grow sustainably without sacrificing innovation, trust, or long-term opportunity. Subscribe for weekly conversations with the thinkers and leaders shaping the future of business.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/22/26 | ![]() Rohan Blacker: Learning the lessons from Sofa.com | Rohan Blacker is a serial entrepreneur and co-founder of Sofa.com. Blacker shares his journey with host Dougal Shaw, from an unfulfilling legal career to becoming a pioneer in UK e-commerce. He left Sofa.com in 2015 when a private equity firm took over. Today he’s still very much in furniture retail, running Pooky.com and Schplendid sofas. Blacker tells the story behind acquiring the Sofa.com domain name, explaining why he and his co-founder felt a "nuts name" was essential for success, in the brave new world of online branding. Blacker also explains why he thinks Sofa.com declined after his exit, citing "death by a thousand cuts", including excessive discounting and high rent overheads. He explains how he is now using the lessons learned from his Sofa.com days to power his latest venture, Schplendid, which aims to champion sustainable sofas in a world of "fast furniture".Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() Skin + Me: James Mishreki on scaling a UK skincare phenomenon | James Mishreki is the founder of the UK-based, fast-growing skincare brand Skin + Me. In this episode Mishreki discusses with host Richard Harpin his unconventional entrepreneurial journey. It began in childhood with selling copied CDs at school and included a stint as a professional poker player, a role he credits with building his resilience. The conversation explores how Skin + Me aims to disrupt a £140bn beauty and cosmetics market plagued by a 55% customer dissatisfaction rate. Mishreki details his company’s innovative personalised subscription model, which provides prescription-grade treatments through a vertically integrated system, including their own pharmacy and factory. Mishreki shares his philosophy on "rejection training" and explains why he transitioned from CEO to Chairman to focus on his core strengths.Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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