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How to be a CEO

Evening Standard

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Frequency: 1 episode/10d. Total Eps: 97

The Evening Standard invites you to join us in conversation with some of the most influential people in the world’s best city for business.

‘How to be a CEO’ gives you exclusive access to leading business people who will give you their tips on how to get to the top and stay there.

Networking is the key to creating a successful start-up, and once you’re up and running it’s essential to keeping your SME afloat.

Join us fornightly on Monday mornings for a brand new episode.

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Motorway CEO Tom Leathes on the journey to Unicorn status

Season 1

Monday, August 12, 2024 • Duration 23:09

Tom Leathes is CEO of Motorway, the car buying and selling company that launched in 2017 and secured Unicorn status just four years later, after it was valued at over $1billion.

The brand itself has grown rapidly in the UK since it launched, with effective TV and radio marketing campaigns promoting a different way of selling your car.

In this episode Tom explains his journey to success with Motorway, reveals his customer-first approach for the business, and discusses the evolving market for used EVs.

For more interviews, news and analysis, go to the business page here or pick up the Evening Standard newspaper.

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Salesforce CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi on investing in AI

Season 1

Monday, June 24, 2024 • Duration 22:48

Zahra Bahrololoumi is CEO of Salesforce UK & Ireland, dubbed the world's number one customer relationship management software company.

The company has committed $4 billion towards AI innovation and growth in the United Kingdom over five years, and it’s building the company’s first AI Centre based in London.

Zahra herself has been named one of the best-known female leaders in the UK, and in this episode Zahra discusses how AI is ‘top of the agenda’ for businesses, why more investment is needed in digital skills in the UK, and how hugely talented women in tech can reach the top.

For more interviews, news and analysis, go to the business page here or pick up the Evening Standard newspaper.

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Pockit’s Virraj Jatania: How he got through a crisis “out of our control”

Season 1

Monday, February 19, 2024 • Duration 18:02

On this episode of How to be a CEO we’re continuing our series looking at start-up success stories.

Pockit is a London-based fintech, serving customers left behind by mainstream banks. It was launched in 2014, has more than 900 thousand customers, and last summer it raised ten million dollars in funding – but it hasn’t been all plain sailing.

Its CEO Virraj Jatania spoke to the Evening Standard’s business editor, Jonathan Prynn about:

How Virraj’s childhood growing up in a family business shaped his entrepreneurship
Why seeing the struggles of people restricted from mainstream banking made him want to launch Pockit
The chance meeting with Sir Alex Ferguson that led to him becoming an early investor
How his role as CEO changed as the company scaled up
What happened when a big funding round collapsed just as the pandemic arrived
How the Wirecard scandal led to a crisis at Pockit
The “two primary objectives” he has for the company’s future

How to be a CEO drops every second Monday. Hit your follow button to make sure you don’t miss an episode. You can read more from Jonathan Prynn at standard.co.uk/business

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Theo Paphitis: How to Start a Business

Season 1

Monday, February 5, 2024 • Duration 24:38

Kickstarting a season of shows looking at the SME market, we speak to Theo Paphitis, the former Dragon's Den star whose retail group includes companies like Ryman Stationery, Robert Dyas, Boux Avenue and London Graphic Centre. He's also the man behind the phenomenally popular Small Business Sunday network, which he started from his kitchen table in 2010. In this episode we talk about:

Why starting a business makes you “bounce out of bed in the morning”
How to deal with the curveballs when they come an SME’s way.
Why you should wear your business scars as a “badge of honour”
Could he do today what he did when he first started out as a young man?
The simple tweet that started the Small Business Sunday phenomenon
How he overcame “incredible shyness” to develop a network when he first started in business
The “chance network meeting” that led to Ryman Stationery helping him out in his early days
Why he runs the Theo Paphitis Retail Group as a small, family business
Who’s really making money from online retailing… and why it’s not the retailers?
Why retailers need to “have a reason to exist” to get people through the door
Ryman's "unique" approach to disrupting the greetings card market
Why business rates are "the most unfit tax known to man"

Theo will be appearing at the Evening Standard's SME Expo, where there’ll be 4,000 SME founders and decision makers hearing from keynote speakers and joining in the workshops and networking events taking place over the two days. It’s free, go to smexpo.co.uk for more details.

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How to build a better bank, with ex-Barclays boss Antony Jenkins

Season 1

Monday, January 22, 2024 • Duration 20:28

Formerly group CEO of Barclays, Antony Jenkins is the founder and CEO of 10x Banking. It's a tech company created in 2016 with an ambition to “build better banks”. In this conversation we talk about:

• The future of banking

•The influence of big tech in finance with innovations like Apple Pay

•Why he founded 10x Banking with his own money and the difficulty developing new technologies

•The ageing banking technology and why it’s difficult to replace

•How neobanks are able to take business away from traditional banks

For more interviews, news and features, check out standard.co.uk/business or pick up the Evening Standard newspaper.

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New Year's Resolutions with McCann London's Polly McMorrow

Season 1

Monday, January 8, 2024 • Duration 30:54

Polly McMorrow is CEO of McCann London, part of one of the biggest advertising agencies in the world. Clients include Xbox, Aldi, Just Eat and Wimbledon. In this episode we talk about:

What her New Year Resolutions for business are
How to make a great marketing campaign
Why she nearly turned the job down as soon as she was offered it
The future of marketing

For more interviews, news and analysis go to standard.co.uk/business or pick up the Evening Standard newspaper

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Tips on How to be a CEO in 2024

Season 1

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 • Duration 22:23

It's been an extraordinary year, with extremely challenging conditions for businesses large and small across all sectors. In this edition of How to be a CEO we're joined by the Standard's business editor Jonathan Prynn and Business and Tech correspondent Simon Hunt.

What's going to get better in 2024?
What sectors will thrive in the next twelve months?
The opportunities in sectors like tech, hospitality and finance
How will AI evolve, and will it still dominate the conversation?
Is social media going to change even more?
Why is Jonathan "optimistically pessimistic" about 2024?

For more interviews, news and analysis go to standard.co.uk/business

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Comic Relief's Samir Patel: Running a charity in a cost-of-living crisis

Season 1

Monday, November 27, 2023 • Duration 15:26

This is a special edition of How to be a CEO, in support of the Evening Standard and Comic Relief’s Winter Survival Campaign. To donate go to comicrelief.com/winterdonate. The campaign continues until December 22nd.

Running a business in a cost of living crisis is hard. Imagine running a charity? Samir Patel’s the CEO of Comic Relief, which last year raised fifty million pounds to help causes addressing poverty and injustice. But the crises just keep coming, and economies around the world remain volatile. So, in all that, how do you persuade people with less money in their own pockets to give you something?

In this episode we talk about:

•How Comic Relief believes charity can be fun and the need to inspire hope

•The constant change required to stay relevant

•How global crises are affecting donations to the charity sector

•The shocking deprivation this year's Evening Standard & Comic Relief Winter Survival campaign is trying to tackle

For more on the campaign go to standard.co.uk. To donate, go to comicrelief.com/winterdonate

Get more interviews, news and analysis at standard.co.uk/business

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GoPro CEO Nick Woodman on luck, AI and beating the competition

Season 1

Monday, November 13, 2023 • Duration 23:30

It was 2002 when entrepreneur Nick Woodman first set up his GoPro business, something he calls today "the realisation of a dream".

What was only intended to be a small, niche business offering a new way of filming for surfers, grew into a household name synonymous with action cameras for extreme sports, adventuring and capturing footage in all conditions.

In this episode Nick tells us about his 21-year journey with GoPro, how he deals with competition in the secctor, the company's ethos of helping creators do more, and his future plans for the brand.

In this episode:

Nick's belief in 'a great deal of lucky timing'
Why he was 'terrified' of hiring people at the start
Nick's fear of competition and what he does to stay on top
Plans for desktop video editing software, and AI to make editing easier
'Stay tuned' for new types of camera from GoPro
Why being passionate about a business is key to success

For more news, interviews and analysis go to standard.co.uk/business.

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B&Q CEO Graham Bell's blueprint for the future

Season 1 · Episode 79

Tuesday, October 31, 2023 • Duration 25:32

Graham Bell took the reigns at B&Q in 2018, and has seen the company through a rapid evolution.

In this episode we talk about:

His first day on the job and what his priorities were
How the Covid pandemic turbocharged their development
What the company's priorities are now
How customer demands led to them opening smaller stores
Why he's grateful to the person who bought the diy.com URL all those years ago

For more interviews, news and analysis, go to standard.co.uk/business

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