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How to Scale a Business to £1 Billion in the UK | Octopus Energy & HomeServe Founders

mardi 10 novembre 2026 • Durée 01:09:07

How do you build a £1 billion business in the UK? James Whittaker, Deutsche Bank’s head of wealth management business in the UK and Nordics, asked two founders who succeeded – Sir Richard Harpin, founder of HomeServe and host of the Business Leader podcast, and Greg Jackson, founder and CEO of Octopus Energy. Do founders need to study at university, think globally, stay focused on the core business or even do without an HR department in order to achieve unicorn status?

Jackson argues for more investment in British businesses, warns of a £2 trillion gap in pension fund investment in British companies and calls for a 100-day plan to fix it. Harpin calls for stamp duty on shares to be scrapped to revive the London Stock Exchange, explains why he refused to sue a HomeServe copycat in India, and argues for investment to help scale-ups accelerate from £100m to £1bn.

Plus: why entrepreneurship “isn’t good for you” and “it’s not a rational decision”, AI’s impact on the next generation of unicorns, and the businesses on the UK Billion Pound Business list they most admire.

Take a look at the list of UK Billion Pound Businesses here and sign up to our free weekly newsletter at businessleader.co.uk/newsletters.

Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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From behind the Iron Curtain to a luxury skincare brand - 111SKIN Founder

mardi 3 novembre 2026 • Durée 43:33

Eva Alexandridis is the co-founder of 111SKIN, the luxury clinical skincare brand favoured by Lady Gaga, Margot Robbie, and Victoria Beckham, and stocked at Harrods, Selfridges, and Bergdorf Goodman. In this episode, Alexandridis joins Sir Richard Harpin to trace her journey from growing up behind the Iron Curtain in Bulgaria, to working at Silicon Valley startups during the dot-com boom, to co-founding 111SKIN, the doctor-driven skincare brand, with her husband plastic surgeon Dr. Yannis Alexandridis, in London.

Alexandridis reveals why she refused to sell 111SKIN anywhere but her husband's Harley Street clinic for the first few years, and what changed her mind after years of resisting outside investment, leading her to agree to Estée Lauder taking a minority stake. She shares her advice for founders on patience, scaling, and avoiding the "fast beauty" trap and reflects on treating every failure as a learning opportunity. Alexandridis also explains why she deliberately avoided over-extending the luxury brand into too many stores or too large a product range, focusing instead on experiential treatments in luxury hotel spas. Alexandridis learns from her mentor Angela Ahrendts, mentors other beauty founders, including Aman Essentials' Kristina Romanova, and believes mentorship is a two-way street.

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How Shamil Thakrar built Dishoom into one of Britain's best-loved restaurants

mardi 27 octobre 2026 • Durée 50:30

Shamil Thakrar, co-founder and Executive Chair of Dishoom, talks to Sir Richard Harpin about building one of Britain's best-loved restaurant groups with no restaurant experience, while friends and family thought he was bananas. Thakrar believes in the power of storytelling and explains how invented backstories shape every Dishoom restaurant. He shares his mantra, "deepen, don't dilute", his father's advice that success needs "a little poetry at the heart of it", and how he learnt to put quality before profit. After handing the CEO role to long-serving colleague Brian Trollip, and following years of bootstrapping the business with family backing, Thakrar brought in private equity investor L Catterton. Having compared starting a restaurant to "the first ten minutes of Saving Private Ryan", he explains why he is now braving a second beach landing in New York, and where future international expansion could take the business.

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How Helen Cannon turned a crisis into a £70M business opportunity

mardi 20 octobre 2026 • Durée 42:09

Helen Cannon had five children and wanted a sixth. Instead, she decided her next baby would be a company. In 2013 she founded ISON Travel and built a corporate travel management company from scratch that now turns over around £70 million. Sir Richard Harpin talks to Cannon about bootstrapping ISON Travel without ever taking on external funding. When Covid grounded the travel industry and competitors cut back, she chose to hire and expand. Revenue grew from around £4 million in 2020 to £32 million by 2022. Cannon explains how she has scaled internationally through India, the Philippines, Dubai and a US acquisition. She covers how she builds culture across a fully remote team, why 70% of her staff are women and a quarter are over 55, how to deal with imposter syndrome and why every entrepreneur should be "10% braver." She also speaks openly about leading the business after the death of her husband, who was also a key member of the management team, and about her push towards a £100 million revenue goal. This episode is for founders, CEOs and female entrepreneurs who want to scale a business, lead while raising a family, and turn a crisis into an opportunity.

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Simon Mellin built Modern Milkman to £50m - then nearly ran out of cash

mardi 13 octobre 2026 • Durée 42:40

Simon Mellin, founder and CEO of Modern Milkman, grew up working in his dad's butcher's shop in Colne, rural Lancashire. By trying to move the business online, he was shocked to find just how disconnected food supply chains had become across the UK. In 2018, inspired by Blue Planet, he bought a real, working milk round for £2,000 to find out why the dairy industry was dying – and what could be done to save it. From that cart, he has delivered Modern Milkman: a returnable-packaging grocery delivery business that has since raised tens of millions in funding, expanded into five US states, and is aiming for its first full year of profit. In this episode, Mellin tells Sir Richard Harpin about his experience as the modern milkman, as well as the strange coincidence that led him to merge with a US rival – and what he got wrong trying to run it 'the UK way'. Plus, his frank advice for founders: If you don’t try you don’t know, just get on with it!

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Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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700% in one year: How Kate Prince built Ancient + Brave into a £54m brand

mardi 6 octobre 2026 • Durée 52:17

Kate Prince, founder and CEO of Ancient + Brave, walked away from a career as a lawyer, including years spent drafting contracts for Big Brother, to build one of the UK's fastest-growing wellness brands. Her collagen and supplements are now stocked in Selfridges, Harrods, online and in over 20 countries worldwide. In one twelve-month period, the business grew from £1 million to £10 million in revenue, and last year it surpassed £54 million. Now, Prince has her sights set on £100 million within two years. Prince talks to Sir Richard Harpin about building a brand from nothing, bootstrapping before securing outside investment, scaling fast without losing control, finding communities of female founders and never losing sight of the company’s mission, purpose, principles and value system.

Subscribe to the Business Leader Podcast for weekly entrepreneur stories from founders and CEOs who’ve built and scaled great businesses. Join the Business Leader community for coaching, peer to peer forums and exclusive learning events. Sign up to our free weekly newsletter at businessleader.co.uk/newsletters.

Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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"Never let a good crisis go to waste": Trustpilot CEO on AI, trust and scale

mardi 29 septembre 2026 • Durée 41:41

Adrian Blair talks to Sir Richard Harpin about taking over from Trustpilot's founder in 2023 and how discipline turned a loss-making EBITDA position into a business now targeting 30% margins by 2030. Drawing on lessons from Just Eat and running Dext as a non-founder CEO, Blair reflects on what it takes to succeed a founder — respecting their ambition while building on the culture they left behind. He explains how Trustpilot has become one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI search era and why "genuine human feedback" has become essential to AI answer-engine strategies. Blair also lives by the mantra "never let a good crisis go to waste": he rebuilt confidence after a short-seller report wiped 30% off the share price in a single day, and he shares his hiring philosophy for senior teams — including why you should always meet a candidate in person before hiring them.

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Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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Eric Ries: Lean Startup author on why every founder needs to be Incorruptible

mardi 22 septembre 2026 • Durée 01:02:33

Eric Ries, author of the bestselling The Lean Startup which sold over 2 million copies, joins Sir Richard Harpin to discuss his new book Incorruptible. Fifteen years after redefining entrepreneurship with concepts like the MVP and the pivot, Ries turns his attention to a different threat: what he calls "financial gravity" - the corporate governance norms and regulatory standards that can erode a founder's integrity and long-term vision even after early success. They discuss why pivoting is a change in strategy without a change in vision, how founders like Costco's Jim Sinegal built "governance fortresses" to protect long-term thinking, and why Ries founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange to reward companies that resist short-term pressure. Ries shares advice on when startups should take investment, the benefits of employee ownership and explains how trust is the most valuable asset that an organization can have. Also, his tips on how to harness AI in a better way that allows the human and the AI to be much closer to collaborators than to delegators.

Subscribe to the Business Leader Podcast for weekly entrepreneur stories from founders and CEOs who’ve built and scaled great businesses. Join the Business Leader community for coaching, peer to peer forums and exclusive learning events. Sign up to our free weekly newsletter at businessleader.co.uk/newsletters.

Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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She raised £6.5mn then everything changed - Sharmadean Reid MBE | Part 2

mardi 15 septembre 2026 • Durée 34:21

In the second part of our interview with Sharmadean Reid MBE, we chart the rise and fall of beauty tech platform Beautystack, what it really takes to secure venture capital investment, and the launch of her latest venture – luxury bathing brand 39BC. Reid tells Sir Richard Harpin how she "collects people" and turns her network into her greatest business asset, why she swears by a paid business coach, and what she wishes she'd done differently at Beautystack. She also makes the case for storytelling as the single most important skill any entrepreneur can have — and explains why failing to document your playbook could be the most expensive mistake you ever make.

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Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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From £5 an hour to £1000 a day: How Sharmadean Reid MBE built her career | Part 1

mardi 8 septembre 2026 • Durée 40:38

Sharmadean Reid MBE started working as a hotel chambermaid in Wolverhampton when she was 14 years old, before learning the lingo of business while waiting tables at the business Rotary Club of the hotel. Her career has been driven by the 'two wolves' inside of her – artistic and business. Reid has spent twenty years at the intersection of beauty, technology and women's empowerment. With a real talent for spotting trends, she founded a cult nail salon in Dalston called WAH Nails, before creating the tech platform Beautystack, a women's business community The Stack World, and most recently the luxury bathing brand 39BC.

In the first part of the interview with Sir Richard Harpin, she talks about what it takes to build a business from scratch, learning to ask for anything and overcoming fear of “no” as well as learning to “never split the difference”. She also shares her views on why aren’t there more successful female entrepreneurs in the UK and how domestic cognitive load can lead to burnout.

Stay tuned for part two, next week.

Subscribe to the Business Leader Podcast for weekly entrepreneur stories from founders and CEOs who’ve built and scaled great businesses. Join the Business Leader community for coaching, peer to peer forums and exclusive learning events. Sign up to our free weekly newsletter at businessleader.co.uk/newsletters.

Business Leader is a membership community for ambitious CEOs and founders of mid-sized UK companies, designed to help them grow with purpose through strategic support, peer-to-peer learning, expert coaching, and high-impact events. Sign up for our Business Leader newsletter here.

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