The Entrepreneurs
A weekly deep dive into global business. Inspiring stories from startups to legacy brands in hospitality, design, fashion, and retail.
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Episode 214
Harper Reed shares his journey from CTO of Barack Obama’s re-election campaign to selling his company Modest to PayPal. We meet James Watt, co-founder of Scotland’s largest independent brewery BrewDog, who tell us about his book ‘Business for Punks’. We then head to the mountains north of Los Angeles to…
Episode 213
A special episode from the Web Summit in Dublin. We sit down with the CEOs of Kickstarter and Deliveroo; Nicolas Brusson of BlaBlaCar and Philippe Botteri of Accel Partners explain the future of ride-sharing, IDEO’s Anne Pascual shares the process of innovation and the team behind Viewpop explains 3D photography.
Episode 212
We discover business lessons from the founders of British sunglasses label Taylor Morris and London-based Dum Dum Donutterie. Plus, we’re in New York to profile Alfred, the mobile app-based errands service.
Episode 211
Minneapolis-based entrepreneur Eric Dayton shares the story of his clothing brand Askov Finlayson, his award-winning restaurant Bachelor Farmer and the ever-popular Marvel Bar. We also profile the global literacy start-up Pobble. Plus: Winkreative’s Rachel Claire Steed discusses the uses and abuses of “heritage” within a brand’s story.
Episode 210
We meet Efe Cakarel, the founder of curated film-streaming service Mubi. We also visit Angels, the seventh-generation family-owned company that’s been outfitting actors in the theatre, television and film industries since 1813.
Episode 209
We stroll down Barcelona’s famous high street Passeig de Gràcia to see the results of an €8m facelift. Meanwhile, Italian entrepreneurs Rossella Frigerio and Silvana Molaro share their made-in-Capri sandals brand Sofia Capri. Plus: the Winkreative team discusses the future of fashion brand DKNY.
Episode 208
We meet Justin Hall, a fifth generation sock maker and CEO of luxury sock brand Pantherella, tell the story of Canadian publisher Coach House Books and speak to the authors of the new book ‘Friend & Foe’ who explain when to compete and when to co-operate in the workplace.
Episode 207
We explore the world of sonic branding with the CEO of Austria-based company Raven and Finch; Roo Rogers and Yves Béhar of fuseproject talk about the Spring Accelerator, a venture that supports businesses helping the lives of adolescent girls in East Africa; and the Winkreative team look at the branding…
Episode 206
We sit down with Frank Muytjens, head of men’s design at J.Crew, and hear how the company transformed from a preppy catalogue brand into a consistently on-point icon in the global menswear market. We also talk to the British business duo behind superfood-infused chocolate brand Doisy & Dam. Plus: Freya…
Episode 205
We visit the team behind American manufacturing company Knickerbocker and tour their Brooklyn factory; investigate the success stories of city governments around the world in promoting local entrepreneurship and innovation; and profile Swedish entrepreneur Noa Fridmark, who went from a high-paying corporate job to an isolated archipelago island and on…
