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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Edition 70
We visit Louis XIV’s favourite candle maker to see how they’re plying the wax trade in the 21st century, meet a radiologist-turned-designer who explains the medical influences on her work, and ask how a little email newsletter in Paris became big business.
Edition 69
We meet the inventor of a new silicone-based material, visit a business in East London that’s teaching people how to build electronics and chat with a man who thinks applying Stanislavski’s theory of theatre to business could improve customer experience.
Edition 68
We meet the mind behind Wantful – a service to find the perfect gift – and look at the upper echelon of the hairdressing industry, while Gillian Dobias visits Paperworld in Frankfurt.
Edition 67
We meet the head of the family-run Benetton company, speak to the director of the International Trade Centre about her mission to represent small businesses worldwide, and visit a company using a novel approach to fight malware.
Edition 66
We meet a Düsseldorf-based Sri Lankan shirt maker, visit a Greek grocery store for the blind, and chat with the man perfecting sourdough bread in London.
Edition 65
We hear from a caviar expert sourcing her stock from China, visit Cairo to meet the man making a profit by paying people to recycle, and we find out how one company in Mumbai is selling yoga to a younger generation using a western model.
Edition 64
Best of 2012: From the founder of Oliver Peoples to a brewing operation in the West Bank and to a bell-maker in Berlin, we bring you the interviews that inspired, the discussions that made you think, and the moments that made you laugh in 2012.
Edition 63
On this special Christmas edition of The Entrepreneurs, we discover a Roman business finding inspiration from rummaging through the past, and head to Warsaw to meet three entrepreneurs using an abandoned factory to create a far-from-traditional Christmas market.
Edition 62
Sophie Grove visits the UK’s oldest salmon smokery just 100 metres from London’s Olympic stadium, we chat with the co-founders of a Chicago window-cleaning business, and discuss the branding of charities with our friends at Winkreative.
Edition 61
We head to Cairo to test out a new service willing to run any errand, big or small, find out what it takes to become a successful nightclub boss in São Paulo and light up with brothers running the only cigar-making business in Greece.
