Podcast appearances and mentions of Brent Hoberman

Brent Hoberman, the visionary co-founder of Lastminute.com and Made.com, is a true force in the world of entrepreneurship. From building multi-million- dollar businesses to founding the renowned Founders Forum, Brent is now a key player in supporting the next wave of innovators. He's an advisor to governments on tech, a board member tackling issues from cyberbullying to education and a relentless advocate for startups. In this lively and insightful conversation, Brent opens up about his journey through the highs and lows of the dot-com boom, the lessons he's learned, and the unique challenges of being a pioneer in the digital age. Packed with energy, hilarious anecdotes and reflections, this episode offers invaluable advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and a rare glimpse into the mind of a serial innovator.

Mike Lynch, die Britse tegnologie-entrepreneur en die voorsitter van Morgan Stanley International, Jonathan Bloomer is geïdentifiseer onder die vyf liggame van die ses vermiste passasiers van die super-seiljag, Bayesian, wat gevind is. Lynch se 18-jarige dogter Hannah is steeds vermis. Lynch se jarelange vriend Brent Hoberman het met Sky News gepraat en die tragedie uitgelig veral omdat Lynch die afgelope 12 jaar gesukkel met ‘n bedrogklag in die VSA wat uiteindelik van die hand gewys is.

Une Masterclass du plaisir, ça vous parle ? Dans mes contenus comme chez beaucoup d'autres, on parle beaucoup de narratifs autour de la discipline, de la résilience, du combat, de l'esprit d'équipe, de vaincre ses peurs, pour progresser, devenir meilleur. Et le plaisir dans tout ça ? Et la relation entre notre esprit et notre corps ? Devrait-elle nécessairement être secondaire ? Dans cet épisode un peu à part, Chloe Macintosh propose un guide pratique pour reparamétrer nos relations : avec nous-mêmes, avec notre partenaire, avec notre corps. Les bases pour devenir un expert du plaisir. Tout a commencé par un burn-out. Connue dans la tech pour avoir créé Made.com avec Ning-Li après 10 ans comme architecte dans un des plus prestigieux cabinets londonien, Chloe a explosé en plein vol. Alors qu'elle se passionne pour la science du plaisir dans toutes ses formes depuis près de 10 ans, elle décide de dédier sa vie à la recherche sur l'intimité et la sexualité, voyageant à travers le monde pour rencontrer des experts et des praticiens de diverses disciplines. Son objectif : comprendre le fonctionnement de notre corps, notre rapport à l'intime et son impact insoupçonné sur tous les aspects de notre vie. Aujourd'hui, Chloe a lancé Kama.co, une app pour accompagner et éduquer sur notre manière de vivre le plaisir et son rôle dans notre bien-être au quotidien. Cet épisode est une bombe qui va littéralement transformer votre quotidien, et vous donner des clés et exercices pratiques très concrets pour vous re-connecter à votre corps. Il s'adresse autant aux hommes qu'aux femmes, aux célibataires ou aux personnes en couple et vous éclairera sans aucun doute sur le rôle et l'importance du plaisir. TIMELINE: 00:00:00 : Des Beaux-arts à entrepreneur : Made.com 00:15:08 : Burn-out et début des recherches 00:21:17 : Le plaisir comme alternative à la méditation 00:35:39 : Connais-toi toi-même : la bonne approche 00:43:09 : Le mensonge de la p*rnographie : les réelles conséquences 00:53:49 : Se réapproprier ses désirs par l'écoute du corps 01:11:38 : La nudité en dehors de la s*xualité 01:20:48 : Faire durer son couple grâce à l'intimité 01:35:26 : Comment bien utiliser les jouets et apprendre à différer le climax 01:41:32 : L'amour après la ménopause : l'évolution des rapports 01:47:08 : Les meilleurs exercices pour décupler ses org*smes 02:02:10 : Résoudre les problèmes masculins et féminins 02:15:28 : Expérimenter (à deux ou solo) 02:25:36 : Mas*urbations guidées, cours de massages et autres : l'application Kama 02:32:26 : Comment en parler avec ses enfants 02:41:05 : Les quatre directions du toucher 02:48:20 : Guérir les traumas par le corps Les anciens épisodes de GDIY mentionnés : #326 - Ning Li - Typology - Fonder Made.Com, péter tous les scores et devenir le leader de la cosmétique made in France #208 - Marie Comacle - Puissante - Faire vibrer le corps des femmes #351 - Camille Aumont Carnel - Je m'en bats le clito - Se battre pour plutôt que se battre contre #206 - Nicolas Hennion - Libérez la bête - Développement personnel radical ou comment vivre sans contraintes Nous avons parlé de : Kama Embodied Love : Formulaire pour rejoindre les retraites Made.com Brent Hoberman, fondateur de Lastminute.com Café Noir Les recommandations de lecture : L'Art de la Guerre de Sun Tzu Sapiens de Yuval Noah Harari La fonction de l'orgasme de William Reich Vous pouvez contacter Chloe sur Linkedin, Instagram. La musique du générique vous plaît ? C'est à Morgan Prudhomme que je la dois ! Contactez-le sur : https://studio-module.com. Vous souhaitez sponsoriser Génération Do It Yourself ou nous proposer un partenariat ? Contactez mon label Orso Media via ce formulaire.

Martha Lane Fox was first catapulted into the public eye during the dot.com boom as co-founder of lastminute.com the online agency she set up with Brent Hoberman in the late 1990s.It was valued at three quarters of a billion pounds when it floated on the London stock exchange in 2000. She then experienced a life change road accident while on holiday in Morocco when she was thrown from the passenger seat of an open-top car. She says she very nearly died. ‘They rank you in trauma I was a 37, 39 is dead'Her career has ranged from launching karaoke chain Lucky Voice to serving as the government's digital champion and being on the board of twitter, during one its most complex times. She is currently the President of the British Chamber of Commerce Evan asks about the key personal and business-related decisions that got her to where she is today.A Long Form Audio Production for BBC Radio 4.

Baroness Martha Lane Fox reflects on a challenging year for tech businesses, explains why we should be more concerned about a “profound shift in information flows” than destruction by robots, and unpacks why we shouldn't be too pessimistic about startup funding. Elsewhere on the show, she looks ahead to a year of political uncertainty and explains why the first trillionaire in the world will “probably” come from the green transition. Lane Fox is a British businesswoman, philanthropist and public servant. She co-founded Last Minute during the dotcom boom in 1998 with Brent Hoberman, taking it to a public listing two years later. She entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher in 2013, becoming Baroness Martha Lane-Fox of Soho and the youngest female life peer. That same year, Lane Fox was appointed CBE for "services to the digital economy and charity". And in 2014 she was appointed chancellor of the Open University, a role that she continues to hold. Since October 2022 the entrepreneur has been president of the British Chambers of Commerce, a business network spanning companies of different sizes across all sectors.   

In this episode we look back upon some of the guests whose dedication to High Performance has had a detrimental effect on other elements of their lives. Jake and Damian explore the difficulties associated with going 'all in', while reliving moments from Jill Scott, Brent Hoberman, Stephen Hendry and Jonny Wilkinson.Listen to their full episodes here: Jill Scott: https://pod.fo/e/17147dBrent Hoberman: https://pod.fo/e/172e1dStephen Hendry: https://pod.fo/e/c12f9Jonny Wilkinson: https://pod.fo/e/9cca4 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brent Hoberman is an entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded lastminute.com and made.com, both of which went on to be valued at $1 billion dollars. Being born in South Africa, from a Jewish family and moving to England to attend boarding school, Brent identifies being an immigrant and an outsider as a driving force in his work. He shares with Jake and Damian how he used his misfit status to create his own path, and now actively looks for outsiders and mavericks to work alongside him. They discuss how to build credibility as an entrepreneur and why this is so important. Brent doesn't believe that anyone can be an entrepreneur, he reveals the traits and skills he looks for in young employees. After over 20 years of managing people and founding businesses, Brent shares the secret to finding the right employees, how to create and maintain a dynamic culture and how to find the benefit in controversy. - - - - - - - - -We're going on tour! Grab the last tickets for our live theatre tour coming to London, Nottingham, Oxford, Northampton, Glasgow, Cardiff, Guildford, Leeds, Salford - https://www.thehighperformancepodcast.com/live2023.Books Out Now:The High Performance Daily Journal - 365 Ways To Become Your Best! smarturl.it/HPJournalHigh Performance: Lessons From the Best on Becoming Your Best https://amzn.to/3WcJnBs Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Aarish Shah is the Founder of EmergeOne and Projected.ai and host of Off Balance and Nothing Ventured Podcast. Will talks to Aarish about having the venture capitalist money idea and having that "aha!" moment that it could work, what drives him and having a purpose of helping others, and using his podcast to teach lessons that he's learned along the way. EmergeOne (http://emergeone.co.uk/) Projected.ai (https://projected.ai/) Off Balance and Nothing Ventured Podcast (https://nothingventured.tech/off-balance) Follow EmergeOne on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/emergeone/), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/EmergeOneUK/), YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfrtssmo3LELM6QDFOkU1Ug/featured), or Twitter (https://twitter.com/emergeone_uk). Follow Aarish Shah on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adsinuk/) or Twitter (https://twitter.com/adsinuk). Follow thoughtbot on Twitter (https://twitter.com/thoughtbot) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/150727/). Become a Sponsor (https://thoughtbot.com/sponsorship) of Giant Robots! Transcript: WILL: This is The Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots podcast, where we explore the design, development, and business of great products. I'm your host, Will Larry. And with me today is Aarish Shah, Founder of EmergeOne and Projected.ai and host of Off Balance and Nothing Ventured Podcast. Aarish, thank you for joining me. AARISH: It's great to be here, Will. Really happy to be talking to you today. WILL: Yeah, I'm excited. I can't wait to dive in and learn more about you. Tell me about your journey, how it all started. AARISH: Wow, it's a bit of a long run. I'll try and condense it. But I am 44 years old at the moment. About 20 years ago, I came out of uni with a degree in languages which I found was sort of useful but not essential. So I ended up for a few years doing kind of the normal corporate thing. I worked with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Nortel Networks, and then Deutsche Bank. And I qualified as an accountant along the way, so I'm effectively what you guys would consider a CPA over in the U.S. I then kind of up sticks, and I spent the next ten years of my life running a group of manufacturing and trading businesses alongside a property portfolio out in Papua New Guinea, which is a very, very interesting place to be, definitely one of the hardest environments to be building and running businesses for many reasons. I've had everything from people coming into one of my offices with guns. I had one of my factories burned to the ground and everything in between. So really, really great learning experience and certainly amazing to learn about physical products, you know, the manufacturing and distribution and sales and so on of actual physical products. And then, in 2015, I came back to the UK. I didn't really know what I wanted to do. And so I had a bunch of coffees with people and ended up as founding CFO in an EdTech venture, which was a joint venture between Eton College, which is one of the premier schools here in the UK where famously all of our Prime Ministers seem to come from, and Founders Factory which is an accelerator that was founded by Brent Hoberman of lastminute.com fame. So that was really exciting. I was straight off the boat from Papua New Guinea, sitting 10 feet away from Brent Hoberman, learning everything that there was to learn about the tech sector here in the UK and beyond. And had a really great couple of years working in that business and learning really everything there was to know about the VCA ecosystem, the early stage ecosystem, how to build products, how to finance them, how to sell into new territories (We were operating in China at the time.) and all sorts of other things. And then, in 2017, I decided it was time to move on. And I became what you guys would probably call a fractional CFO. So I worked across C through Series C businesses, everything from EdTech to FinTech, D2C, B2B marketplaces, beauty tech, you name it, kind of been there, seen it, and done it. And in 2019 and 2020, started getting approached by FDs and CFOs that wanted to work with me. And I really doubled down at that stage and decided to build EmergeOne into what it is today, which is a consultancy providing CFO services to venture-backed tech startups and scaleups. So we work with a huge bunch of businesses here in the UK that are backed by VCs, some of the big names here like Hoxton Ventures, Stride, Octopus, Outlier, Founders Factory, and others. And I'm really, really passionate about helping founders build their businesses in a scalable and sensible way, I guess, especially in the current environment. And so we're really lucky that we're trusted by these VCs and the founders that we work with to deliver really great services to them. And then, a couple of years ago, because I've been working kind of in the tech sector for so long, I started noodling around with a couple of ideas of projects that I wanted to move forward with. I raised a really small kind of pre-seed back in 2021 and started building a product, which is today Projected.ai, which we have just launched. We're in the process of launching at the moment. And what that is is effectively an email newsletter, if you can believe it, providing internal and external data to our client businesses. So effectively, it's like a flash report of your financials alongside some really sort of personalized news about what's going on in your industry, alongside some other sort of bits and bobs that we're currently building in. On top of that, a couple of years ago, again, I realized that I had a really good network of people that I had relationships with, and I decided to launch the Nothing Ventured Podcast to start speaking with people that operated in the VC ecosystem here in the UK and beyond. So I've been really fortunate to have guests like Hussein Kanji from Hoxton Ventures, Mac Conwell from RareBreed ventures in the U.S., and various others. And I really got to talk to them about why they got into venture, what they see is happening in the market, what are they excited about. And all those sorts of things. Because, to be honest, I'm really passionate about learning and understanding about where people are coming from, why they do what they do, what drives them, what they're passionate about, but equally, the sort of challenges they've also faced. And that's been going now for 60-odd episodes. We're launching Season 4 shortly. And I'm really lucky and fortunate to have been able to do that. And then finally, at the back end of 2022, so in December, actually, just as I was jumping on a plane, I sort of released something on LinkedIn, which was like 100 lessons that I've learned as a CEO and CFO over the last 20 years of operating. And unexpectedly, the thing went viral. I've had close to a million views on it, thousands of likes, hundreds of comments, and reshares. And I decided to turn what was effectively just a list into a short-form podcast, which has turned into Off Balance. So we're releasing that daily and kind of expanding on each and every one of those topics that I went through in that list. So, yeah, look, I mean, I'm someone with a finger in a lot of pies. I'm a massive generalist, so I love getting involved in different projects at different times. But I'm really fortunate to be able to do what I love doing. It's just been a wild journey for the last seven years, certainly, but the whole 20 years of my life. WILL: I love it. I love it. I love every idea that you had weaves into that venture capitalist money idea. So let's start at EmergeOne. When did you have that aha moment that this could work? AARISH: So I work a lot in strategy, so there are two forms of strategies, emergent and there's defined. So most people know about a strategy that is written down; it's a playbook. They go out, and they pursue it. For me, it was really emergent. Firstly, I realized that there were not that many great CFOs operating in tech, certainly here in the UK, because it's, to an extent, a nascent industry. And whilst there are great accountants, and there are great finance leaders in larger businesses, actually doing that in a startup or a scaleup is very, very different. Now, don't get me wrong, there are some great CFOs out there. It's just that I think there are far fewer than many people [laughs] assume there to be. So that was kind of the first thing that twigged with me. And I was seeing a lot of businesses picking up people and calling them a CFO when I knew for a fact there was no way that they really had the experience to be able to call themselves a CFO or to operate as one. So I guess that was the first aha moment. And the second aha moment was as I started talking to more and more VCs via the podcast, and just generally because I was out in the ecosystem talking to them, I realized that actually, the work that I was doing was not being driven necessarily by the client companies but actually by the VCs themselves because they wanted to make sure that having invested 1,2,5, 10 million pounds or dollars that those companies were in good hands and safe hands and that capital was being managed effectively and efficiently. And obviously, we're sitting in January of 2023 now. Never has that been more appropriate. More and more businesses are struggling. They're struggling to raise. They're having to extend their runways and figure out how to manage their cash in a much, much more significant way than maybe they had to two or three years ago. And so, for us, that's like a massively important thing. And having a great CFO in your business is going to help you do that. And therefore, we are getting approached more and more both by VCs as well as by companies that are just on the lookout for someone to help them. It was sort of a series of aha moments. But as I said earlier, it was an emergent strategy. It was something that kind of developed over time. But also, I'm someone that learned quite early on in my life to back myself. I think I took the punt on building this agency, if you like because it felt right. And it felt like something that I would enjoy doing, and it felt like something that I could actually make a difference in. And I think all of those things kind of culminated in really making EmergeOne what it is today, and I'm really proud of what we've been able to achieve. WILL: Yeah, I love that idea because I feel like, especially in startups, like you said, that excellent CFO is really hard to find. It's really hard to find. But if you don't have the numbers, you don't have a business. Let's be honest, the numbers you just don't have it. AARISH: Yeah, it's crazy to me that over the last decade or so, we've had, obviously, this period of super cheap money, super cheap capital. People have been raising at very inflated valuations. But we're seeing all of that come home to roost. We're seeing that in the public markets. A lot of these companies that IPOed over the last several years, obviously, have had their valuations drop significantly, you know, companies like Peloton, I guess, and others. People are starting to realize that actually cash is king. They need to understand how the cash is flowing through their business and to know that they need to have an intimate knowledge of their numbers. And, in fact, a lot of our role as a CFO in a business is to kind of coach the founder to make sure that they do understand those numbers and how they need to present them to internal stakeholders, external stakeholders, whether that's your board, whether that's investors, or whether that's your employees to make sure that people have a good idea of not only how they're tracking but where they're heading and where the end goal is. And I think it's massively important. I've always been a massive advocate for people getting to grips with their numbers, even if you're not a numbers person. Because especially if you're a founder or you're the leader in the business, the CEO, ultimately, the buck stops with you. You've got to know those numbers. It's not good enough to say, "Well, my CFO, my accountant has a handle on them." Like, if you're sitting in an investor meeting trying to pitch them to raise 5 to 10 million bucks, you're going to need to know those numbers inside out. And it's astonishing how many people actually ignore those. And what I would say is, you know, ignore them at your peril. WILL: Yeah, that just blows my mind because if I put myself in an investor seat if I'm giving you money, I want the head person, the CEO, to know exactly how to handle that money. So yeah, I love that idea, and I love what you're doing. Let's go on Projected.ai. And if I understand this correctly, this is more of a kind of [inaudible 10:51] the words. AARISH: So it's like a newsletter on steroids. WILL: Yeah, but it's to be honest about your numbers to board members and investors, correct? AARISH: Yeah. So Projected.ai was born out of this understanding that I guess I have, which is that CFOs and finance professionals working in startups and scaleups and SMEs they have dashboard fatigue. We interviewed CFOs, and they're operating off like 20 different dashboards, each of them giving them different numbers, each of them telling them something different. And they don't even have time to look at those dashboards, let alone make decisions based on the numbers that are coming out of them. So what we wanted to do with Projected was provide a touch point for that CFO where they could check in with their numbers in a really easy way on a consistent, regular basis. When I thought about this really clearly, I don't live in dashboards; where I live is in the tools I communicate in, so that's my emails, that may be my Slack channel, that may be WhatsApp or iMessage, or whatever it is that you use. But certainly, for business, it's going to be email and Slack for the most part. So I thought, what is the easiest way to communicate with someone in their business? It is via one of those channels. And what are the things that they want to know? Well, they want to know what's happening in their business, what's changed in their numbers over the last week, or two weeks, or month, but also what's happening outside their business. Because often, in startups, we get so kind of tunnel-visioned into what's happening inside the business. We don't take the time to look outside and figure out what others are doing or what may be happening in the macro environment that may have an impact on our business. And an obvious case of that at the moment is interest rates having moved up quite significantly over the last several months and still going to, as well as sort of inflation numbers also on their way up, and central banks everywhere trying to rein those in. All of that is going to have an impact on your business, especially if you're a consumer business, for example. And if you don't factor in all of those things or if you don't look at all of the things that could impact your business, you're going to make decisions with imperfect information, and, therefore, you'll make imperfect decisions. Now, you're never going to have perfect information. But the more information, the more pertinent information you have, the more transparent you can be, exactly as you said, to your board, to your shareholders. Tell them exactly what's happening, and get their advice to help you through those rough patches. Ultimately, we've got some tricks up our sleeves in terms of what we're going to be doing with those numbers, and how we're going to be presenting them, and how we're going to be manipulating them when we do show them to our users. But I kind of felt like we've moved past that time where CFOs were only about the numbers looking backwards. A really great CFO today is all about communication, information. It's about turning data into information, turning numbers into a narrative. Yeah, that's what we wanted to build, a tool that could support them and help them really be the best CFO they can be. WILL: Yeah, that's amazing. Transparency is the word I was looking for. So you nailed it, yeah. So I love that idea, the transparency of the numbers of the business just using AI. So that's amazing. It makes it a lot easier to send it out and to make it happen. So I love that idea. AARISH: Yeah. I mean, the interesting thing is; obviously, we've all been hearing a lot about generative AI and large language models at the moment. And we've definitely got plans to incorporate that into what we're doing. But the other side of that is you got to be really, really careful, obviously, because, as we all know, there are biases that can creep into any of those sort of AI-driven models. But equally, there are inaccuracies. And, in fact, a lot of those models tend to be great with words, not great with numbers. So one has to be really, really careful about bringing those tools into play. And because we know what we're doing, we can assess for that and make sure that the information that we're putting out there is the right sort of information, but actually, what we can do in terms of modeling our cash flows and revenue and effectively forecasting out a business. Because bearing in mind a lot of startups, most startups, most scaleups, most SMEs don't have the balance sheet. They don't have the money to go out there and build an AI tool themselves. They just simply don't. And they may not have the wherewithal in-house, but they almost certainly don't have the cash. So what we're doing is hopefully providing a bridge for them to get better information in terms of what's happening today but also maybe an inkling of what might happen tomorrow, which helps them, again, to plan better. And, again, it comes back to this whole thing around decision making, transparency, and making sure that they're able to look at their numbers with confidence and communicate those to others with confidence, and really understand what's driving those numbers as they keep building their businesses. But everything we do at Projected, everything I do definitely as a founder and as someone that operates in this ecosystem, is all driven by how do we make the ecosystem better? How do we help founders? How do we help their companies? How do we make sure we can drive that number down from 90% of startups failing within the first three or five years? How do we turn that number into 70%, 60%, or less? So that's all about information. It's all about giving those hard-won lessons, hard-learned lessons back to founders and guiding them, I guess, in the best way we can. WILL: Yeah, I love that. I love that. MID-ROLL AD: thoughtbot is thrilled to announce our own incubator launching this year. If you are a non-technical founding team with a business idea that involves a web or mobile app, we encourage you to apply for our eight-week program. We'll help you move forward with confidence in your team, your product vision, and a roadmap for getting you there. Learn more and apply at tbot.io/incubator. WILL: Let's transition to talking a little bit about you. I love to just ask questions to the founders because, honestly, what founders go through just amazes me that you continue to go. You wake up, and you do it over and over again. So it's amazing, so kudos to you. So let's talk about that; why? Why do you wake up every morning and do EmergeOne, do Projected.ai, do the podcasts? What's your why? AARISH: I'm in therapy trying to figure that answer out myself. WILL: [laughs] AARISH: No, look, I mean, I think what drives me, again, it's that sense of purpose of helping others. It's also scratching the itch. I think a lot of founders, it's about scratching that itch. There is something that you can see that is wrong in the universe, and you want to fix it. And if I think about those various sorts of businesses or podcasts, each of them attracts me in different ways. So EmergeOne, we get to help lots of businesses, providing them really, really significant support. And we're working with great VCs, with great clients, great startups, and scaleups. At Projected, we get to expand that range because you're no longer reliant on one person providing a CFO service or a bench of 20 people or whatever. We can now do that across hundreds, thousands of startups if need be. With the podcasts, it's a combination of learning and hopefully also providing some learning to others, helping them understand a bit more. So the Off Balance podcast these are like two-minute short episodes, which go into the detail of those 100 lessons that I've learned. And some of them are very, very personal to me, but they're probably applicable across most businesses. And all I'm doing is exploring those in a bit more detail and hopefully passing that on so that some other founder somewhere doesn't have to go through the same pain of learning that lesson. They can look out for the signals and figure out how to deal with it in advance. And Nothing Ventured scratches my itch to learn more about the VC ecosystem. If you imagine I'd spent ten years out in New Guinea, I had no idea what venture capital was out there. I really didn't understand what the tech ecosystem was. When I arrived there, we were still on dial-up. There were no mobile telephones. It wasn't until 2008, 2009, that mobile telephony really kind of picked up over there. So when I came back to the UK, I was just surrounded by all of this stuff which I was massively curious about. And so everything I've done since then is about scratching that curiosity and learning. And I think that that drives pretty much everything that I do in life in general, which is this huge passion to learn and understand the world a bit better and to hopefully pass on whatever I can to others because I think life's too short to hold it all for yourself. The more you can give, the better the world is. WILL: Yeah, definitely, definitely. Let's give a sneak peek into Off Balance. You said that you use that to teach lessons that you've learned along the way. What have been some of the big obstacles that you've come across? AARISH: Oh wow. I mean, there are 100 lessons in there, [laughs] so I'm going to have to pick a couple of my favorites. Okay, so one which actually I posted about today on LinkedIn it was like the episode we dropped today, which is "Hire Slow, Fire Fast." And I got a lot of flak about this actually talking about it on LinkedIn when I first posted it. And the reason I think that I got a lot of flak was all people read were those four words: hire slow, fire fast. And they just assumed what I was saying was you should fire in the vein of a lot of the larger tech businesses over the last couple of years where maybe they've sent a mass text message or email and just sacked a bunch of people. And that's absolutely not what I'm advocating for. I think you should always be human when you are dealing with people all the time. But the things that I've really learned is if you don't have a process to hire people well, you end up hiring the wrong people. And you end up hiring people that either don't have a fit in the business or are just not the right people in terms of their ability to do what you need them to do. And we're all probably aware of this fact by now, but it bears repeating, right? All of us when we are talking to other people, we look for reflections of ourselves. So when we are hiring people, we look for people that emulate how we see ourselves, whether that's in the way they talk, in the way they dress, whether they look like us, or whether they come from a similar background. And I think those are all obviously negative biases that we all need to remove. And the way you can remove those is in a couple of ways, so, one, use data wherever possible and use data points. Secondly, have a process that makes sure that you have a really strong top-of-the-funnel, bringing in candidates from across all sectors, all experiences. I make sure that there are several people involved in that process so that you're all giving your feedback on an individual so that you can make sure that, actually, I thought this person was going to be great in this role, but maybe my CTO thinks they're not; they're going to be mediocre. We can have that conversation and understand where those challenges have come up, and hopefully get to a place where we either decide actually, yeah, you know what? We shouldn't hire this person. Or, actually, yeah, you know what? I think you're right. I'm convinced that this is the right person. We should go for them. But I think the point is companies can lose hundreds of thousands of dollars hiring the wrong person, that's in recruitment fees, in training fees, and lost time, et cetera, et cetera. So it makes sense to do it right, right from the beginning. And the flip side of that is if you have hired someone and they turn out to be a toxic person or not fit for purpose in terms of the role that they're doing; the point is not to then just send them an SMS and say, you know, "You're fired." The point is, you know, Donald Trump style, no. WILL: [laughs] AARISH: The point is actually to take the decision really quickly. So if you realize that that person is not working out, then make the decision and execute on that decision as quickly as possible because I've seen it too often and have done it myself to the business' detriment. I've seen too often people sitting on a decision to move someone on. And that's ended up leading to problems in the business because other employees, other members of the team will recognize that toxicity or that person isn't pulling their weight, or they aren't able to do the job even. And that will just lead to negative impact on the rest of the business as well. So that's definitely one I would always come back to is, like, hire slow, fire fast. I think I'm happy to take more flak on it because I strongly believe it is something that more founders and more businesses should take heed of. And the other one, I think it was number one on my list for a reason, and that's cash trumps everything and today, even more so than anything else. I think businesses over the last, certainly in the venture ecosystem, over the last sort of five years, growth at all costs has been the mantra, and that's throwing dollars at marketing and just building new customers, or buying new customers, I should say, to supercharge growth when actually that isn't sustainable. And it doesn't necessarily lead to good outcomes in the future. My preference is twofold, one, spend as much time and money as you can in cultivating your existing customers, make sure you're really giving them delight in whatever product or service you're providing them because that means that they're going to stay with you longer. They're going to pay themselves back in terms of how much it costs to acquire, and hopefully, they're going to be advocates for your business. And all of that basically leads to a better cash bottom line. And today, always, but today over and above any other period, I think over the last 5, 10 years cash trumps everything because you are only as good as your runway. And when you run out of money in this market, it is very hard to go out and try and raise additional capital, and raising capital at the sort of valuations that people have also been used to over the last several years is getting harder and harder, if not impossible. So those are probably the two that I would always come back to; it's the hire slow, fire fast, cash trumps everything. And it's better to spend money retaining and loving your customers than trying to constantly acquire new ones. WILL: Yeah, I love that. I love that. Let's flip it to the other side, what have been some of your biggest wins in life? AARISH: I mean, I'm going to say the obvious one. My biggest wins are my family, you know, my wife, my kids. I've got two beautiful daughters, one's 21, one's 15. I hope we've raised them to be well-adjusted children. We've given them, I think, the ability to go out and do what they want in life. And that's really important to me. My wife, her, and I have been together for 20 years. We've had our ups and downs, but today I think we make an amazing team. And I'm really fortunate to have her in my life. If I think about wins and success in business, it's really hard for me and, again, because I think success is a state of mind. It's not something that you can chase. And I think too many people get caught up in this sort of idea of I'll be successful when. And what I mean is I'll be successful when I've raised that big series A, or I'll be successful when I've exited my business, or I'll be successful when I've made that huge sale, or when I've hired that rockstar employee or made it to founder, or whatever it is. If you approach success with the attitude of you are already a success, whatever you're doing, you are alive today, living in one of the most exciting times on the planet. You are a successful human being; whatever anyone else says, that's a major win in itself. And understanding that state of mind that you have to be in is something that it takes a really long time to understand and really internalize. And I think the way that I've managed to get to that place is I've realized that in the past, either I was chasing success or I was waiting for someone else to tell me that I've been successful. When in reality, if I judge success based on my own benchmarks, then it's impossible for me to look at what I've done and say I haven't been successful. I've got two businesses, two podcasts. Who knows? One of those businesses may fall over, one of those podcasts may not get a single listener or whatever. But the mere fact that I've shown up and broken ground on all of that stuff for me is, I think, an indication of success. It's something I'm really proud of. And as I move forward in life, I'm always going to try to do better. But I already know that whatever successes or failures I may have in the future, I've already been successful. And I think that's the thing that all of us should hold on to in life. WILL: Yeah, I totally agree with that, and I really, really like that. So I'm going to close it out with this: what advice would you go back and give yourself when you first started at the very beginning knowing what you know now? AARISH: I would say from the age of like 15 to the age of getting on 37, 38, I was a product of what other people wanted, what I did at school, what I studied...well, what I studied at university was what I wanted to do, but it was almost in retaliation for what others wanted me to do. Where I worked, the sort of path that I trode was very much based on culturally, familiarly what was expected of me kind of growing up in a very middle-class and privileged background. It wasn't until I came back to the UK from Papua New Guinea, where I basically came back with nothing to my name and no idea what I was going to do, and I started doing things that I wanted to do and started backing myself in spite of what other people were saying. So even when I left that first job working at the EdTech business, one of my cousins turned around and said, "Why are you leaving that job? It is paying you a really good salary. Like, why would you leave that to do this thing?" And I had someone else, an angel investor who's one of my closest friends; she turned around and said, "Well, if one of my portfolio companies came and said, oh, they're looking to bring in a CFO, I'd tell them they're stupid and spend their money elsewhere." And I was like, "No, I can see that there is something to be done in this space. I'm going to go and do it." And, lo and behold, again, it's paid off. And so I think the one piece of advice I would have given to myself, and I would give to everyone, is back yourself early on. You may not have the experience to do everything. You may not have the network. You may not have the cash. You may not have the friends and family that can invest in you or whatever it might be. But take that first step, back yourself because ultimately, if you can't back yourself, no one else is going to. WILL: Wow, that's really good, really good. Wow, I really like that. Yeah. Yeah, I really liked that because it's kind of the initial stage of that self-care, especially as a founder. Like, if you don't believe in yourself, how can you even ask someone else for it? Because they can see, like, well, is this a good investment? Are you going to see it through, or are you going to quit? AARISH: Yeah, and in fact, I'd add to that one of the other things I've said is, but I came to this late in life, is if my mind and my body aren't healthy, then my business can't be either. I realized quite late in life, as I say, probably mid-30s, again, that I'd probably done more damage to my body than I needed to through my diet, through whatever proclivities I may have had. The most amazing I've ever felt is today, where I'm exercising daily, where I'm taking care of myself mentally, taking the time to think about what is important to me, and to show gratitude for a lot of stuff as well. And exactly as you say, if you're not looking after yourself, it's really, really hard to look after a business, to look after team members. And certainly, when other people are looking at you, they're going to kind of sit there and say, "Well, how safe is my money in this guy's hands? Or do I think that this person is going to be able to see it through?" So 100% the two things are back yourself and look after yourself. I think those are two really important things. WILL: All right, to close out the podcast, is there anything that you would like to share with the audience? AARISH: I mean, I think it's been awesome speaking to you. I would love for everyone to come and check out Nothing Ventured and the Off Balance Podcast. And please connect with me on LinkedIn, follow me, follow me on Twitter. My handle is @adsinuk, so that's @A-D-S-I-N-U-K, both on LinkedIn and on Twitter. You can find me at Aarish Shah on LinkedIn, obviously, as well. I'm always keen to hear from people, learn from people, talk to them. All I would ask is be gentle with each other. Come find me. Come have a chat. And, yeah, it's been awesome speaking to you today. WILL: Yeah, it's been great talking to you too. And I'm going to lead by leadership. And I'm going to look you up on LinkedIn, Twitter; check out the podcast. I'm excited about that. So I'm looking forward to it. AARISH: Amazing. Thanks, man. WILL: Yeah, thank you. You can subscribe to the show and find notes along with a complete transcript for this episode at giantrobots.fm. If you have any questions or comments, email us at hosts@giantrobots.fm. You can find me on Twitter @will23larry. This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot and produced and edited by Mandy Moore. Thanks for listening. See you next time. ANNOUNCER: This podcast is brought to you by thoughtbot, your expert strategy, design, development, and product management partner. We bring digital products from idea to success and teach you how because we care. Learn more at thoughtbot.com. Special Guest: Aarish Shah.

In der Mittagsfolge begrüßen wir heute Sophie Frères, Co-Founder und CEO von Lisa, und sprechen mit ihr über die erfolgreich abgeschlossene Seed-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 2,7 Millionen Euro. Lisa hat eine SaaS-Plattform entwickelt, auf der Unternehmen Shopping-Angebote aufsetzen können. Die Lösungen der Plattform verbinden E-Commerce mit sozialen Komponenten wie Live-Streaming und Social Media Features. Damit befähigt das Startup weltweit führende E-Retailer, ihren Kundinnen und Kunden ein authentisches Shopping-Erlebnis zu bieten. Zu den Einzelhandelskunden von Lisa gehören u.a. Marks & Spencer, Avon und L'Oréal. Zum Produktportfolio gehört auch ein Headless Content Management System, welches flexibel anpassbar sowie einfach und schnell zu implementieren ist. Dadurch ermöglicht es Online-Händlern und -Marktplätzen, auf ihre Marke abgestimmte und gleichzeitig hoch skalierbare Live- und Social-E-Commerce-Erlebnisse anzubieten. Online-Händler können dabei Engagement-Raten von bis zu 90 Prozent, Online-Konversionsraten von bis zu 35 Prozent und organische Social-Sharing-Raten von bis zu 14 Prozent nachweisen. Lisa wurde im Jahr 2018 von Sophie Frères und Philippe Frères in Düsseldorf gegründet. Im Jahr 2019 hat das Startup am Accelerator-Programm Founders Factory von Brent Hoberman teilgenommen. In einer Seed-Finanzierungsrunde hat das Jungunternehmen nun 2,7 Millionen Euro unter der Führung des TechVision Fonds (TVF) eingesammelt. Der TVF ist ein Frühphasen VC-Fonds im westlichen Rheinland, der vom Team der S-UBG-Gruppe verwaltet wird und mit 55 Millionen Euro Fondsvolumen regional in Technologie-Startups investiert. Der TVF unterstützt Founder neben der Finanzierung auch mit einem großen Netzwerk und Expertise. Zum Netzwerk gehören über 150 Portfolio-Unternehmen aus 30 Jahren Beteiligungserfahrung. Der britische VC Venrex und die Angel-Investorin Georgie Smallwood haben sich ebenfalls an der Seed-Runde beteiligt. Das frische Kapital möchte Lisa dafür nutzen, um international zu expandieren und seine Live-Shopping-SaaS-Lösung zu einem One-Stop-Shop für Social-Commerce-Erlebnisse weiterzuentwickeln. Zudem ist die Entwicklung einer Social Commerce Cloud geplant. Diese soll Headless-Lösungen zur plattformübergreifenden Entdeckung für die User sowie ein API-basiertes Partnerschaftsnetzwerk umfassen. One more thing wird präsentiert von OMR Reviews – Finde die richtige Software für Dein Business. Wenn auch Du Dein Lieblingstool bewerten willst, schreibe eine Review auf OMR Reviews unter https://moin.omr.com/insider. Dafür erhältst du einen 15€ Amazon Gutschein.

AN ENTREPRENEUR WITH IMPACT. Brent Hoberman is Co-Founder and Chairman of Founders Factory, Founders Forum and firstminute Capital. He co-founded lastminute.com in 1998, was CEO from its inception, and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. He also co-founded Made.com which went public in 2021 for $1.1bn.

In the latest episode of Climb in Consulting Nick talks to the founder and CEO of Founders Intelligence, Rob Chapman. The entrepreneur powered consultancy that helps clients to identify and seize the next billion-pound opportunities that are emerging in their industries. Having begun his career in the start-up world, Rob moved in to consulting with PwC, wanting to build those core consulting skills that many young professionals want to learn. But his early days in start-ups had ignited a passion in him, and it was a chance introduction to one of his now longstanding mentors that led to the idea of a consultancy that helped large corporates grow through entrepreneurial growth. It was this idea that led to Founders intelligence, and at the age of just 26 he launched the business with his co-founders, Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane-Fox, on a mission to help companies unlock their potential by thinking and acting like entrepreneurs. In this conversation Rob and Nick explore a range of fascinating topics critical to the Founders Intelligence Journey, including: • Why mentorship is critical to career success and how mentors have played a vital role in Rob's journey, from the decision to launch Founders Intelligence to how he and the team have evolved the business over the last 8 years. • The powerful career advice that helped Rob and his leadership team take Founders Intelligence from a start up to a global team approaching 50 people and how you can use it to accelerate your own career. • And how partnering with Accenture will help Founders Intelligence to accelerate its mission and help more corporates grow through entrepreneurial growth. Whether you're looking to grow your own career through the power of mentorship, or you want to know how you can build your consultancy through entrepreneurial growth, you'll get so much from this conversation. We hope you enjoy the show! Get in touch with Rob at: www.linkedin.com/in/robertianchapman Find out more about Founders Intelligence at: www.foundersintelligence.com Specific things discussed in the show: Wendell Berry – The Peace Of Wild Things www.waterstones.com/book/the-peace-of-wild-things/wendell-berry/9780141987125 John Berger – A Fortunate Man www.waterstones.com/book/a-fortunate-man/john-berger/gavin-francis/9781782115038

Heute begrüßen wir in der Mittagsfolge Axel Schmiegelow, Founder und CEO von Itravel. Mit ihm sprechen wir unter anderem über die zweistellige Millionenfinanzierung des Individualreisen-Anbieters. Itravel ist ein digitaler Reiseveranstalter, der Datenanalyse, KI und Blockchain-Technologie nutzt, um Reisenden die Möglichkeit zu bieten, ihre eigenen Reisen zu kreieren. Kundinnen und Kunden können online ihre gewünschten Erlebnisse und Aktivitäten im Voraus zusammenstellen und buchen. Dafür nutzt itravel maschinelles Lernen, um Übereinstimmungen zwischen den Interessen der Nutzerinnen und Nutzer, den Jahreszeiten sowie den Reisekomponenten vorherzusagen. Jetzt haben Grazia Equity, Ex-Thomas-Cook-Chef Peter Fankhauser, Carsten Seeliger, zuletzt bei Karstadt Reisen, Mister-Spex-Macher Mirko Caspar und Florian Heinemann eine zweistellige Millionensumme in Itravel investiert. Reiseexperten wie Brent Hoberman, Gründer von Lastminute.com, Dr. Thomas Döring, ehemaliges Vorstandsmitglied von Thomas Cook und derzeitiger Direktor bei Holidaycheck, und Sascha Hausmann von Howzat Partners haben bereits früh in das Startup investiert. One more thing wird präsentiert von OMR Reviews – Finde die richtige Software für Dein Business. Wenn auch Du Dein Lieblingstool bewerten willst, schreibe eine Review auf OMR Reviews unter https://moin.omr.com/insider. Dafür erhältst du einen 20€ Amazon Gutschein.

In this episode of Elevating Founders, Brent Hoberman chats to Tim Draper, Founding Partner of Draper Associates, whose prominent investments include SpaceX, Hotmail, Skype and Tesla. Their conversation spans insights on Tim's passion for VC, if entrepreneurship is teachable and the biggest opportunities for investment today beyond the usual markets.

In episode two of Now, Then, Ten, Brent Hoberman discovers how a nightclub promoter and self-confessed “bozo” became a man on a mission to bring clean water to the world – and disrupted the charity sector in the process. Scott Harrison reveals why radical transparency, rewarding employees and being first with technology has helped Charity: Water transform the lives of 12 million people, and he shares where the organisation is headed next.Sign up to Facebook Curated, the monthly leadership newsletter for stories on the people, brands and ideas shaping business and culture: https://bit.ly/37tFNMtNow, Then, Ten is brought to you in collaboration with Facebook & Founders Forum. Want to hear more from our hosts? Find Nicola & Brent on LinkedIn & follow @FoundersForum for more on podcast content.

We've launched a new podcast. Now, Then, Ten explores how the world’s most influential communities – from global movements to Gen Z brands – come to life. Hosts Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook’s Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Forum, ask the driving forces behind these communities – luminaries in business, technology and culture – to share the secrets of their success. They’ll reveal how they were created, the moments in history that inspired them, and what they’ll look like 10 years from now. Search for Now Ten Then wherever you get your podcasts.

In a special episode of the podcast, we're joined by Tommy Stadlen and Jonnie Goodwin — two prominent members of the UK's investment community. Tommy is the co-founder of Giant Ventures, and has had a remarkably varied career — working as an advisor to both Barack Obama and David Miliband, setting up a photography app that was then sold to Microsoft, and even finding time as a teenager to release an ambient music album.  Jonnie, meanwhile, is the head of Alvarium Merchant Banking. He's enjoyed a rich and colourful career in television and radio, advising on over 100 very high-profile media deals in his time. He is best known now, perhaps, for setting up Founders Forum — a network for entrepreneurs — with Brent Hoberman.  This episode is all about tech investing in 2021, and the current climate and outlook for the wider venture capital community. In it, Tommy and Jonnie discuss how purpose is now front and centre in most investment decision; the rise of the Special Acquisition Company; how they stay on top of the sea of noise and nonsense in startup land; and the sort of entrepreneurs that they do and don't like to invest in. Enjoy.

How did a shopping app evolve into a creative community? And what impact are its 26 million-and-counting users – 90% of whom are under 26 years old – having on the fashion industry as a whole? In the first episode of Now, Then, Ten, Maria Raga shares the secrets of Gen Z's go-to resale brand with Nicola Mendelsohn, reveals the pivotal moments that led her to the role, and talks candidly about the lessons she's learned along the way. Sign up to Facebook Curated's monthly newsletter for stories on the people, brands and ideas shaping business and culture: https://www.facebook.com/business/m/facebookcurated-newsletterNow, Then, Ten - in collaboration with Facebook & Founders Forum. Want to hear more from our hosts? Follow @Nicola Mendelsohn and @Brent Hoberman.

As a co-founding board member at 1871 in Chicago and creator of the Dancing with Startups program, I am always on the lookout for potential global expansion partners, like Founders Factory. They are a very dynamic startup accelerator and venture studio, launched five years ago in London by Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, on the principles of aiding founders with hands-on resources. On this episode of the Reboot Chronicles we dig into how entrepreneurs and startups should evaluate incubators, accelerators or venture studios with Founders Factory Managing Director, Isabella Chick. With a growing list of corporate partners, 100 people (wow) and 4 global locations, they have funding from numerous organizations, allowing them to invest in and rapidly scale and transform global sector challenges—opportunistically. How it Works Standing out from the rest, Founders Factory provides a different perspective, separating their accelerator and venture studio, enabling a more direct operating approach. Moving beyond the typical "cohort" model, over 200 startups have been in their six-month accelerator factory—68 in 2020 alone. Most of these ventures have received bespoke tailored services and advice focused on growth—with a keen understanding about the (land mine) spaces between retail and brands. Another secret sauce they provide founders is coveted all-access passes to world-renowned companies like J&J, M&S and L'Oréal who has a strong CVC group. The venture studio program allows entrepreneurs to start with funding and some de-risking. Isabella shares the two ways the venture operation works: either Founders Factory develops an insight or target area with a corporate partner and brings talent into the mix, or founders bring their concepts to the group and pitch for inclusion in the program. Corporate Partners Isabella points out, the importance of relationships with their corporate partners across multiple sectors, including education, media, beauty, travel, finance, AI & big data, retail, and home. This is not the typical demo-day/corporate entertainment format, but a more serious corporate commitment program. Within these sectors, the industry relationships they have, plus the corporate partners clout, have been crucial market accelerators for the entrepreneurs and startup teams. These corporate partners often de-risk too, as they can engage with the startups ahead of investment. Once a vote through the investment committee has been determined, based on the relationship momentum, concept feasibility and other insights, they can commit. With L'Oréal alone they have run over 200 pilots with entrepreneurs and startups! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/rebootchronicles/message

Martha Lane Fox is a British entrepreneur, philanthropist, internet activist and public servant. In this episode we cover topics like Serendipity and The Triple Bottom Line, as well as how the Digital World, like many of us, is having a midlife crisis and what we can do to increase our chances of coming out the other side better off for it. Martha knows because she has experienced this rollercoaster a few times over in her career. In 1998 Martha co-founded Europe's largest travel and leisure website, lastminute.com with Brent Hoberman. They took it public in 2000 and sold it in 2005 in a historically successful exit. Martha became a crossbench peer in the UK House of Lords in March 2013 as it's youngest female member and she was awarded a CBE (which is the highest ranking Order of the British Empire award given to recognise a positive impact made in her work.) In March 2014 she was appointed Chancellor of the Open University and in 2017 she was appointed a member of the Joint Committee on National Security Strategy. Martha is a member of Twitter's Board of Directors and Non Executive Director for Chanel. She is also a non executive director of Queens Commonwealth Trust. She founded Doteveryone in 2015 which is a charity fighting for a fairer internet and building a movement for responsible technology. In short, Martha is a remarkable human being and a fascinating example of true leadership. You'll want to stay tuned all the way to the end when Martha offers a surprising tip about how we can find solace, empathy and inspiration through Hinterland - which is expanding our depth and breadth of knowledge. You're going to want to grab a paper and pen! There's a lot of good stuff in here! Minute-by-minute summary: 03:30: What led you towards the digital space in the beginning? 05:20: What took you from the consulting firm to lastminute.com? 06:50: What was the beginning of your journey like? 09:16: What was the process of your exit like? 12:30: Martha walks us through where she chose to place her journey after lastminute.com 15:40: Will we look back in 10 years and be proud of the solutions we've created? 18:40: The triple bottom line, focusing on planet. 22:00: How have you seen your voice uniquely influence some top of mind decisions? 25:00: Are we using the gifts of modern technology to empower the changes that we need? 27:30: How can we become advocates for digital inclusion? 32:00: What do you see in the future of education? 36:40: The importance of education 43:00: Finding the joy in doing hard things 46:40: What gives you hope for the future? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ann-hiatt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ann-hiatt/support

The chat with Brent was so full of wisdom and best practices, useful for people at any stage in their career, but particularly for those at the start of their career. Something that really stood out from our conversation was how Brent emphasised how his early career success came down to starting at a place where he was paid to learn. This as well as the following, were some of the key take aways: Centred work around his passions and remains exciting Early stage learning as much as possible Knowing when is the right time to launch (not too early or too late) Choosing the right co-founder (Martha was smart, analytical and a talent magnet) and build the right team We also spoke about building teams and hiring the right people, and how this can impact the success of the whole company. He suggests hiring people with strengths which make up for your weaknesses, and building a Culture of people who; *love* working together, love the mission and love having fun together doing so. I couldn't agree more with these statements. When I asked him how to accomplish the exponential growth he experienced and if he had any lessons for scaling, he told me the following: Focus on building/acquiring the backbone technology Focus on the finance system which is where critical runway lies Figure out what talent you want/need to hire (don't just hire the “sexy” front-facing talent - needed to focus on the finance system which is where critical runway lies put some of your best people on the most boring projects and then put them back on their fun projects) When discussing how he survived the dotcom bust, when the lastminute.com share price went down by 95%, Brent highlighted how his team got through this: focused the entire team on the customers Keeping team morale up (most challenging and most important) not getting distracted by headlines of doom Knowing what to measure (KPIs) to indicate where to double down Brent co-founded Founders forum, an organic community for entrepreneurs. Brent saw this real need to mix the next generation with breakthrough ideas to inject that energy by mixing them with the established CEOs. We also touched on how essential diversity of the team is. I have been so blessed to work with people from so many background and know how important this is for a company. To help promote this further, Brent has been involved in initiatives including: Male Champion of Change - very data driven approach and learning from other CEOs and what they have done and passing that along Co-founded AccelearateHER to help the pipeline of women talent and build a community to succeed and connect them with men If you haven't listened to the full episode yet, it's really worth the listen and has so much valuable content within it. I really recommend it! Let me know your thoughts. Id love to hear from you! Ann --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ann-hiatt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ann-hiatt/support

This week on the Bet On Yourself Podcast I am talking with Brent Hoberman. Brent is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Factory (a corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator), as well as The Founders Forum (a global community of founders and tech leaders), and firstminute capital (a $210m seed fund with global remit, backed by Atomico, Tencent and over 70 unicorn founders). Previously, Brent co-founded lastminute.com in 1998, where he was CEO from its inception to sale in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. He is truly one of the internet's original unicorns. Technology businesses Brent has co-founded have raised over $800 million. The list is extensive and includes companies which support global entrepreneurs such as PROfounders Capital, Founders Intelligence (an entrepreneur-powered consultancy), accelerateHER (a network taking action to change the underrepresentation of women in technology), Founders Keepers (a technology executive search firm), Founders of the Future (a network that identifies and supports aspiring entrepreneurs), Founders Pledge (a community for entrepreneurs committed to finding and funding solutions to global challenges), Grip (AI powered event networking solution) and most recently Founders Academy (a new type of business school for a changing world). Brent is Chairman of the Karakuri board and sits on the advisory boards of The Royal Academy, the UK Government Digital Service, the WEF Digital Europe Group and the Imperial College Innovation Fund. He is also a Male Champion of Change for The Global Tech Group, and in 2015 was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship. Brent is truly a remarkable entrepreneur and this episode is full of wisdom for anyone looking to make an informed bet on themselves. I have a feeling you're going to want to listen to this one twice! Buckle up! Minute by minute summary 03:00: Brent's foundation 14:00: How did you get lastminute.com off the ground? Brent talks us through the stages and recognizing the need for a co-founder 16:40: The importance of identifying your strengths when hiring 18:40: have you dissected a formula for scaling? 21:05: How did you survive the dot com bust and end up as one of Europes most successful internet companies? 26:25: Building consumer trust 28:30: Much of your focus is on supporting entrepreneurs through Founders Forum, what was your original vision? 32:30: How to pivot? Where to double down? 35:15: Optimistic entrepreneurs 36:20: In 2019 Brent became a male champion of change, he walks us through what this means. 39:40: What is giving you hope for the future? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ann-hiatt/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/ann-hiatt/support

Now, Then, Ten explores how the world's most influential communities – from global movements to Gen Z brands – come to life. Hosts Nicola Mendelsohn, Facebook's Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and Brent Hoberman, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Forum, ask the driving forces behind these communities – luminaries in business, technology and culture – to share the secrets of their success. They'll reveal how they were created, the moments in history that inspired them, and what they'll look like 10 years from now.

In this episode, Jeannette speaks with Cat Jones, an entrepreneur powerhouse, spanning travel, start-ups, media and more!   Cat started off in the world of physics which is an unusual starting point for business but Cat then spent the next 10 years involved in the full ‘life cycle’ of a start-up. After this point she moved to the Founders Factory, set up by Brent Hoberman, CEO & founder of Lastminute.com, where Cat was managing director of the Media and Travel Division. Now she is the CEO of Byway, a start-up business specialising in sustainable and slow travel.   Jeannette and Cat talk about start-ups, travel, sustainability and how you have to believe in something a little crazy to create something truly transformative. An insightful and inspired episode, not to be missed.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Cat has always had an interest in sustainability and responsibility of business and this has been a theme throughout her career. It was after creating a tour booking site whilst travelling that Cat discovered she didn’t want to do a graduate corporate role. She wanted to be involved in the more creative world of start-ups. This is how she joined a team of 8 at Unruly. Towards the end of last year, whilst at Founders Factory, Cat was looking deeper into sustainable travel and how we can change the way we approach travel to make it more ‘mindful’ and ‘connected’. Inadvertently she had created the concept of the business she has now founded and is running as CEO! Cat got some very raised eyebrows when she said she was starting a travel business in the midst of a pandemic. But she is confident in her knowledge that on the other side of this people will want to travel and they will want to travel the way she is creating through Byway! By creating this travel business in the current climate Byway isn’t having to ‘retrofit’ anything. The level of flexibility and the systems and processes have been built around having to deal with the pandemic. Byway is all about slow adventures that don’t fly. You go through amazing places and stop off and experience so much more. It’s a layered experience that gives you more time and connection with both places and people. Cat’s aim is to make this new way of travel mainstream. She wants Byway to pioneer this new sustainable and connected way of travelling. During the pandemic people have revaluated and repositioned themselves in all areas of their lives. People have almost been forced to ‘reconnect’ with what is around them. When making a big decision Cat spends time with her husband weighing out all of the risks and assessing what can be mitigated and what she is comfortable with. This is how she deals with any ‘naysayers’ or doubt, including her own. Cat and her partner spend time ‘designing their lives’. They even have a quarterly get away to talk and make conscious decisions about them and their family.     BEST MOMENTS   “I have a lot of energy that I like to put into stuff that I care about doing” “What we’re offering is really authentic, a gorgeous and glorious way to travel” “You’ve got to believe something that’s a bit crazy to do something that’s disruptive and different and transformative” “Focus on the gem of an idea and then develop it out from there”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Byway Travel - Experience the world by travelling through it not over it Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast series   ABOUT THE HOST Jeannette Linfoot is a highly regarded senior executive, property investor, board advisor, and business mentor with over 25 years of global professional business experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality, and property sectors. Having bought, ran, and sold businesses all over the world, Jeannette now has a portfolio of her own businesses and also advises and mentors other business leaders to drive forward their strategies as well as their own personal development.   Jeannette is a down to earth leader, a passionate champion for diversity & inclusion, and a huge advocate of nurturing talent so every person can unleash their full potential and live their dreams.    CONTACT METHOD https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com/ YOUTUBE LinkedIn Facebook Instagram   ABOUT THE GUEST Cat Jones is the founder and CEO of Byway, the slow travel holiday platform that offers flight-free getaways by train, boat and bike. Before founding Byway, Cat was Managing Director for the Travel and Media sectors at Founders Factory, where she led investments in fourteen startups a year and coached founders across a portfolio of forty companies. Prior to Founders Factory she was Global SVP, Data and an executive team member at Unruly, a video ad tech company, where she created and ran the data products division. Cat has published research on the effectiveness of video for social good, and been featured in TIME and on the BBC. She holds a first class degree in Physics and a Masters with Distinction in Sustainable Development.   PODCAST DESCRIPTION Jeannette Linfoot talks to incredible people about their experiences of being Brave, Bold & Brilliant, which have allowed them to unleash their full potential in business, their careers, and life in general. From the boardroom tables of ‘big’ international business to the dining room tables of entrepreneurial start-ups, how to overcome challenges, embrace opportunities and take risks, whilst staying ‘true’ to yourself is the order of the day. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pete Flint was the founding member of LastMinute.com with Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox. Following the billion dollar acquisition, Pete went to study for an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He noticed how it was hard to get accomodation, and so this led to him founding Trulia, which turned into another unicorn being acquired by Zillow for £3.5 billion. He has recently written a brilliant essay on the NFX website on how to 10X your career, you can check out that piece which we talk a lot about in the show - https://www.nfx.com/post/10x-career-decisions/I have been thinking of how to transition my career for a year since leaving Downing Street and it is the best piece I have read on the subject.Thank you to this episodes sponsor, Juggle.Jobs Three key themes of this podcast have been talent, diversity, and flexibility. Young ambitious companies always face a challenge between hiring a full time employee, but also getting the right level of experience for what they need and within their budgets.That is where Juggle Jobs comes in, think of them as an AirBnB for high end employment ...as Hayden Wood said in the first episode, hire talent, but rent experience.You can post a free job advertisement on Juggle in just a few minutes, and then you are presented with intelligently matched candidates.You can check their process at juggle.jobsA reminder that you can follow us on Twitter and Instagram @JimmysJobs If you want further summaries and sneak peeks of upcoming guests - sign up to the Jimmy's Jobs of the Future email at https://www.getrevue.co/profile/jimmym Thanks very much for listening. If you'd like to see more information about the job roles being offered please look at my Twitter @jimmym

Lastminute.com Group's name didn't start out that way.BravoFly Rumbo switched its corporate identity after an acquisition of the former European darling of the online travel world in 2015.Spearheading the business since 2004 is Fabio Cannavale, a former founder at Spanish online travel agency eDreams, who pushed BravoFly through a string of acquisitions and growth programs in the intervening 11 years.The company now sits in the mid-tier of European OTAs, headquartered in Switzerland, with websites operating in 40 countries and 17 languages.Cannavale joins us at the latest guest on How I Got Here.HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.It's hosted by PhocusWire's editor in chief, Kevin May, and Mozio co-founder and CEO David Litwak.

Larry Chu is one of the most accomplished tech M&A lawyers in Silicon Valley, where he has advised on over 200 transactions with a total value of over $125B. Along the way, Larry has cultivated one of the best technology networks of anyone I know. In this episode, he reveals how painfully shy he was as a child, but decided early in his career to be a good listener, and used that skill to develop lasting and valuable business relationships.Listen to Larry's stories about panicking on a large conference call while at Davis Polk, getting grilled by a legendary Sequoia Capital investor, and working with entrepreneurs like Ryan Smith at Qualtrics, Greg Duffy at Dropcam, Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman at LastMinute.com, and Trevor Healy. We also discuss Larry's angel investing career during which he recommends Jason Calacanis' book Angel.Currently head of the West Coast Technology M&A practice at Goodwin Proctor, Larry has worked on some of the most notable deals, including (deep breath) Zoox’s $1.3B sale to Amazon, Qualtrics’ $8B sale to SAP, The Climate Corp's $1.1B sale to Monsanto, Nest's $3.2B sale to Google, Maker Studios' $500M sale to Disney, and Oculus'​ $2B sale to Facebook, Dropcam's $555M sale to Nest, and Lynda.com's $1.5B sale to LinkedIn. His list of clients includes such investment firms such as Silver Lake, Accel, a16z and Kleiner Perkins. More about Larry Chu at: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lawrencechuattorneyEmail: lawchu8@gmail.comTwitter: lawchu2More about the host, Dave Ingraham, at:Website: https://www.teleportgroup.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dsingraham/

In conversation with Bits & Pretzels' Britta Weddeling London-based top VC Brent Hoberman, one of the most influential entrepreneurs in European tech, shares his secrets of how founders can grow their startup during the current COVID-19 crisis, where to raise funds now as an early stage startup & what kind of companies & "founder DNA" he's looking for nowadays as an investor. Hoberman, who cofounded travel booking website Lastminute.com in 1998 and sold it seven years later for over $1 billion, also explained how he went from running the first European unicorn in the UK to becoming a mentor to the next generation of founders, as the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Forum, an invite-only networking conference for top global disruptors, with Founders Factory, a global tech startup accelerator & UK-based Firstminute Capital, a unicorn-founder-backed seed fund with a 100 million global reach. More to explore: Get the latest as well as exclusive news on founders, startups & technologies in Bavaria, Austria & Switzerland as well as hands-on advice on how to deal with the Covid-19 crisis as a startup at www.bitsandpretzels.com. Signup for our media newsletter to get the next episode of this podcast delivered right to your inbox: www.bitsandpretzels.com/media-signup. Hosts: Britta Weddeling (@bweddeling), Editor-in-Chief of Bits & Pretzels (@bitsandpretzels) Featuring: Brent Hoberman, co-founder Foundersfactory (@foundersfactory), Founders Forum (@Founders_Forum), LastMinute.com (@lastminute_com), First Minute Cap (@firstminutecap) More to explore: Visit our website: https://www.bitsandpretzels.com/podcast Follow us: Twitter: @bitsandpretzels Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bits-&-pretzels If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review. You can also send us feedback at podcast@bitsandpretzels.com. Production: professional-podcasts.com (Regina Körner, Migo Fecke), Hubert Honold.

Dans ce 20ème épisode de #RunwaySeries et tout premier en #live sur Storm, j’étais ravi d’accueillir @Marguerite de Tavernost, VC chez @Cherry Ventures, un fonds de #seed européen basé à Berlin pour lequel Marguerite identifie et accompagne les entrepreneurs français notamment #consumer les plus prometteurs depuis septembre 2019. Un épisode plein de questions sur Storm nous ayant permis de comprendre le profil d’investisseur de Marguerite au travers - de l’histoire de Cherry, un fonds à l’ADN opérationnel et international très fort et la façon dont Cherry accompagne les startups notamment par le recrutement des tout premiers postes-clé de la C-Suite - des raisons pour lesquelles Marguerite a abandonné son chemin vers l’univers des Think Tanks qu’elle empruntait initialement - de sa volonté de se familiariser avec le business et sa première expérience chez Google à Londres - de sa rencontre avec Brent Hoberman et ses responsabilités stratégiques chez Founders Intelligence à Londres en éducation, transfo digitale et open innovation auprès de CEO, CDO et CMO de grands groupes - de sa prise de conscience lors de son passage chez Side à Londres et Paris que le VC était ce qui l’attirait pour envisager sur le long terme un coopération sans la frustration de voir le projet s’éloigner comme dans le consulting - sa première expérience VC chez e.ventures à Berlin, un fonds international Series A / B. - son intérêt pour all things consumer et ses convictions sur l’impact transformant que la crise du covid-19 aura selon elle notamment en #food et #gaming - son rôle clé en tant que française dans le VC team pour favoriser le clic de culture entre la France et l’Allemagne, combler les incompréhensions entre investisseur allemand et founder français et éviter les clichés - son antiportfolio… … et plein d’autres sujets! Bonne écoute! Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3aUvznm Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3fhyGJB __________________________________________ Les podcasts Runway Series, AMA VC et Venture Talks sont imaginés et produits par UPCOMINGVC® et animés par Raphael Grieco.

Jean-Charles Samulian is the Co-Founder & CEO @ Alan, the startup revolutionising health insurance with a service centred on people, simplicity and comfort. To date, Jean-Charles has raised over $85M in funding with Alan from some of the best in the business including Jan Hammer @ Index, Shakil Khan, Tom Stafford @ DST, Xavier Niel and Brent Hoberman to name a few. Prior to changing the healthcare insurance system, Jean-Charles founded Expliseat, revolutionising airline seating for economy class, now used by some of the world's leading airlines. In Today’s Episode You Will Learn: 1.) How Jean-Charles made his way from re-inventing the airline seating industry to re-inventing the way consumers experience healthcare insurance? How did re-inventing the airline seat prepare and impact Jean-Charles' mindset going into the highly regulated healthcare market with Alan? 2.) How does JC structure his investor updates? What framework does JC believe these investor updates should take? Does he include thank you's at the end? Does he include requests for help? How does he involve the team in the writing of these updates? How does JC insert core strategic thinking into his updates? How much time does JC allocate to writing updates? How does JC think about transparency when coming investor updates? 3.) How has JC created a culture of distributed ownership combined with radical transparency? What are the key elements to achieve this? Where do so many go wrong with culture maintenance and creation? What have been the biggest challenges in scaling from 20 to 190 people in just 2 years? What has worked? What has not worked? 4.) How does JC structure the hiring process at Alan? Why does JC believe in the importance of "shadowing" for people to be excellent at hiring? How does JC define "excellence" in a potential candidate? What questions does JC most like to ask candidates? How does JC think about the right way to optimise new employee onboarding? Where do many go wrong with onboarding? What have been their core lessons at Alan as to what it takes to make it great? 5.) How does JC think about extreme self-organization today? How does JC structure his day and his time? How would JC summarise his relationship to his phone? What does he actively do to reduce his dependence on his phone? What has worked and what has not worked with regards to increasing productivity? How does JC advise others looking to make their first steps in increasing their productivity? Items Mentioned In Today’s Show: Jean-Charles’s Fave Book: The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon As always you can follow Harry, The Twenty Minute VC and Jean-Charles and on Twitter here! Likewise, you can follow Harry on Instagram here for mojito madness and all things 20VC. Carta simplifies how startups and investors manage equity, track cap tables, and get valuations. Go to carta.com/20vc to get 10% off. More than 800,000 employees and shareholders use Carta to manage hundreds of billions of dollars in equity and Carta now offers Fund Administration so you can see real-time data in the Carta platform and work with Carta’s team of experienced fund accountants. Go to carta.com/20vc to get 10% off.

Nur wenigen gelingt es, in ihrem Leben mehrfach, erfolgreiche Unternehmen aufzubauen. Der britische Unternehmer Brent Hoberman gehört zu dieser seltenen Spezies. In dieser Live-Folge von Handelsblatt Disrupt spricht er über seine Unternehmergeschichte, über Technologien, in die er heute investiert - und wie er erfolgreiche Gründer erkennt. Hoberman baute Ende der Neunzigerjahre das Reiseportal Lastminute.com auf und brachte sie einen Tag vor dem Platzen der Internetblase an die Börse. Neben einigen anderen Start-ups gründete der Brite später den Online-Möbelhändler Made, die Investmentgesellschaft Firstminute Capital, die Beratungsfirma Founders Intelligence - und das Unternehmer-Netzwerk Founders Forum, wo sich bis heute regelmäßig die bekanntesten Tech-Gründer der Welt treffen und austauschen. Diese Folge von Handelsblatt Disrupt wurde bei einer Veranstaltung in dem Start-up.Bürocampus Factory Berlin aufgezeichnet. +++ Anzeige +++ Der global tätige Investment Manager Schroders wurde dieses Jahr mit dem Goldenen Bullen als Fondsgesellschaft des Jahres in Deutschland ausgezeichnet und überzeugt mit einer breit aufgestellten Produktpalette und nachhaltigen, innovativen Investment Lösungen. Mehr zur Global Investor Study finden sie hier: Schroders.de/GIS. Informationen zum Gewinner des Goldenen Bullen hier: Schroders.de/Gewinnertypen.

Zebra Fuel, the startup that brought fuel directly to your vehicle, is ‘no longer' delivering in London Zebra Fuel, the London-based startup that delivered fuel directly to your vehicle — backed by Robin and Saul Klein's LocalGlobe, Brent Hoberman's Firstminute Capital and Zoopla founder Alex Chesterman — has told customers it is “no longer” delivering fuel in London.

Après avoir levé 16,3 millions de dollars auprès d’investisseurs comme The Hive, Eniac Ventures, 500 startups, Brent Hoberman, fondateur de Lastminute.com, Xavier Niel et Bpifrance, Rand Hindi vient d’annoncer la cession de Snips à Sonos, une société californienne spécialisée dans les enceintes et équipements audio/video. Discussion sur cette sortie pour la startup française SNIPS avec Yann Lechelle

WAYN (Where Are You Now?) was founded by three young entrepreneurs with a simple concept: create a platform for travelers to connect when on the road.The U.K.-based brand was a pioneering travel social network that captured a huge amount of attention in the mid-2000s for its rapid growth, bold ideas and ability to attract investment from some of the biggest names in the online travel industry at the time.Millions of users and a youthful, fairly brash style inspired a string of fellow social travel platforms in subsequent years (whether those later founders will admit it or not).But the company was inevitably going to find the road would be a bumpy one, with the emergence and omnipresence of Facebook in the world of social networks and a tactical error or two along the way.After the buzz turned to the reality of maintaining a business in a digital market that was continually evolving, WAYN was eventually sold to Lastminute.com Group in 2016.Co-CEO Jerome Touze (his fellow boss was Pete Ward) tells the story of WAYN in the latest episode of How I Got Here.HIGH is a weekly show produced by PhocusWire and Mozio, aimed at getting the inside stories behind startups and innovation in travel and transportation.Other episodes: on PhocusWire and Mozio.

Julien founded e-commerce giant Made.com in 2010 alongside Brent Hoberman, Chloe Macintosh and Ning Li. The company posted revenues of £173 million in 2018 up 37% from the previous year as it continues to expand geographically and refine its service in existing territories. He stepped back from his executive role at Made in 2017. He now works as a mentor, advisor and investor for promising entrepreneurs and their startups. Julien gives a meticulous account of the Made.com journey from concept to success as well as some insights into his future projects including mental health tech and blockchain-based asset management.

David’s 20-year career contains some remarkable highs: overseeing Lastminute.com’s $1.2bn exit to Travelocity, merging mydeco.com with Made.com, founding Tribesports and raising £2m from Adidas, acting as an NED for Simba Sleep and now as part of the founding team, alongside Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, of award-winning accelerator and incubator Founders’ Factory, (where we are fortunate enough to record these podcasts). But this glittering CV which David describes as ‘a drunkard’s stumble rather than a best laid plan’ is only part of the story. Despite the security of a wonderful career and loving family, David has been hospitalised by acute mental illness on three occasions. A story which he bravely shares at the end of the episode. This is by far our longest podcast - a testament to the breadth of David’s experience. His story and life learnings are entertaining and thrilling, while his strong views on the early-stage startup eco-system and fundraising will be of specific interest to entrepreneurs, investors and corporates.

The poster children of the UK's internet boom talk to Kamal and Rohan about the rise of lastminute.com, but how in business as in life, we have to be careful what we wish for.

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Biz Stone (Co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly) in conversation with Brent Hoberman (Co-Founder of Lastminute.com and Founders Forum) at Oxford Saïd Entrepreneurship Forum 2018.

Founders Factory is a brand new way of helping startups to scale and big companies to innovate. Established by well-known British entrepreneurs Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, Founders Factory has a six month accelerator programme and an incubation programme where they build start-ups from scratch. Aviva is their FinTech partner and have already supported five tech startups and incubated one new business. In this podcast, Ben Moss visits Founders Factory to speak to Anna Stables from Aviva and Hannah Blake, Business Development Lead at Founders Factory. For more information visit: https://foundersfactory.com/ https://digital.aviva.com/

In this show we focus on the global TMT outlook. First up is a rare keynote fireside chat with LionTree CEO Aryeh Bourkoff and Gustavo (Chairman) and Adriana (CEO) Cisneros, the father-daughter duo who run the eponymous Latin American powerhouse. Their conversation was recorded at this month’s eMerge Americas conference. Then, after a Brexit-themed quiz question, we remain in the UK for a lively conversation between LionTree Executive In Residence Ed Vaizey and UK unicorn/Founders Forum creator Brent Hoberman. For more information and content from the show, follow us on Twitter and Instagram (@KindredCast). Please read before listening: www.liontree.com/podcast-notices.html

Minter Dialogue Episode #208 — This interview is with George Northcott, co-founder and head of business development at the Founders Factory, an accelerator with great ambitions and very interesting business model. Closely affiliated with the Founders Forum, the Founders Factory -- whose other co-founders count Brent Hoberman, Henry Lane-Fox and Jim Meyerle -- links startups with corporates in very specific verticals. In the podcast, George discusses the model, how they work with the corporates, and provides some great tips for entrepreneurs who are looking to succeed. Meanwhile, please send me your questions as an audio file (or normal email) to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes to rate/review the podcast. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

The Tech.eu podcast is a weekly show where Neil S W Murray and Roxanne Varza discuss the most interesting stories from the European technology scene. On this episode they discuss: - Some big departures in the European tech space: Brent Hoberman, who has officially announced that he is leaving Profounders Capital And Eze Vidra, the man behind Google Campus and Partner at Google Ventures, announced he is leaving the company altogether - Dutch startups raised 430 million euros in 2015, which translates to less money but more deals raised in the Netherlands than the previous year, is this good or bad? - And finally, Roxanne and Neil reveal Tech.eu’s Person of the year for 2015 For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

Minter Dialogue Episode #151 — This interview is with Annabel Kilner, head of MADE.COM UK, an online furniture retailer, which was created by Ning Li, Julien Callede, Chloe Macintosh and Lastminute.com founder Brent Hoberman in 2010. Having previously held senior positions at MyDeco and sharing with me a past at L’Oreal, Annabel talks to us about Made.com’s approach to disruption, how it fosters transparency, the unorthodox Unboxed concept, the use of digital in their show room and much more. Plenty of good advice for those driving eCommerce. Meanwhile, you can comment and find the show notes on myndset.com where you can also sign up for my weekly newsletter. Or you can follow me on Twitter on @mdial. And, if you liked the podcast, please take a moment of your precious time to go over to iTunes to rate the podcast.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/minterdial)

Brent Hoberman rose to fame as co-founder of Lastminute.com, a British internet company that came to symbolise the dotcom excess of the year 2000. He’s reinvented himself as a serial entrepreneur and creator of exclusive start-up community Founders Forum. Caroline Daniel, editor of FT Weekend, asks him about regrets, what it’s like to raise money during a bubble and what’s changed in European tech over the last 15 years. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Brent Hoberman, discusses his entrepreneurial career and what "being successful" means to him. He offers some insight into the success of Lastminute.com and what he's learnt as the Non-Executive Director at the Guardian Media Group and TalkTalk.

The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. Evan asks his guests whether it's time to declare a state of emergency in the world economy and to adopt extreme measures to sort out the Euro crisis and the lack of economic activity in the West. They also discuss rumours, hearsay and speculation, and the role they play in business. Evan is joined in the studio by Guy Berruyer, chief executive of global business software supplier Sage Group; internet entrepreneur Brent Hoberman, founder of online interior decoration business mydeco.com; Hugh Hendry, co-founder of hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management. Producer: Ben Crighton.

The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. Evan and a panel of top guests from the worlds of online retail, investment and utilities examine how young upstart companies can outsmart their well-established incumbent opponents, and how those opponents can defend themselves. The panel also discusses company names. What makes a good one? And why the business obsession with changing them? Evan is joined in the studio by Katherine Garrett-Cox, Chief Executive of Alliance Trust, an investment trust; Brent Hoberman, serial internet entrepreneur and founder of web-based furniture company made.com; Phil Bentley, Managing Director of utility company British Gas.

This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the dot-com millionaire and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. She says that as a child she was confident and bossy - tormenting her younger brother and, in games of teachers and pupils, always marking him lower than her line of teddy bears. Her drive and ambition were recognised at school and college - her brother claims her nickname was 'Fast Lane Foxy'. After studying modern and classical history at Oxford University she became a management consultant at a small company and met Brent Hoberman - who had the idea for lastminute.com. Initially, Lane Fox rubbished the idea, but eventually Brent convinced her and she joined him, appropriately enough, at the last minute. The pair launched lastminute.com in 1998 - it started out as an online bucket shop - selling the holidays that small travel agents couldn't get rid of - and branched out into entertainment and gifts. On March 14th, 2000, days before the markets peaked, lastminute.com was floated on the stock exchange - and over the following weeks prices collapsed. Martha Lane Fox became the face, the figurehead and eventually the fall-girl for the dot-com bubble. In November 2003, after lastminute.com announced a profit for the first time, Lane Fox announced she was resigning as managing director.[Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs]Favourite track: Get Happy by Judy Garland Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: A karaoke machine

This week Sue Lawley's castaway is the dot-com millionaire and businesswoman Martha Lane Fox. She says that as a child she was confident and bossy - tormenting her younger brother and, in games of teachers and pupils, always marking him lower than her line of teddy bears. Her drive and ambition were recognised at school and college - her brother claims her nickname was 'Fast Lane Foxy'. After studying modern and classical history at Oxford University she became a management consultant at a small company and met Brent Hoberman - who had the idea for lastminute.com. Initially, Lane Fox rubbished the idea, but eventually Brent convinced her and she joined him, appropriately enough, at the last minute. The pair launched lastminute.com in 1998 - it started out as an online bucket shop - selling the holidays that small travel agents couldn't get rid of - and branched out into entertainment and gifts. On March 14th, 2000, days before the markets peaked, lastminute.com was floated on the stock exchange - and over the following weeks prices collapsed. Martha Lane Fox became the face, the figurehead and eventually the fall-girl for the dot-com bubble. In November 2003, after lastminute.com announced a profit for the first time, Lane Fox announced she was resigning as managing director. [Taken from the original programme material for this archive edition of Desert Island Discs] Favourite track: Get Happy by Judy Garland Book: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Luxury: A karaoke machine