SPEAKER SUMMARYKatz Kiely’s is the CEO and founder of Beep, a behavioural empowerment platform. She’s also responsible to kickstarting and bootstrapping a marvellous initiative called Frontline.Live. Frontline.Live is the first national ope

Franz-Josef Schrepf talks about the rapid growth of Hopin and the acquisition of StreamYard

Feb 2nd, 2021 28m 14s

We talk about Hopin:- becoming a double unicorn worth $2.1bn in less than 18 months- hiring 800 people at 40 new people per week- the StreamYard acquisition and integration- the potential threat of Clubhouse if any?On 3rd February Johnny Boufar

Monika Wiela talks about how Give Back Box uses old Amazon boxes to help charities around the world.

Jan 21st, 2021 13m 46s

Give Back Box® was founded in 2012 by Monika Wiela, who at the time was running an online shoe store. The idea was inspired by a homeless man she encountered in Chicago, who was holding up a sign saying he needed a pair of shoes. Wiela returned

Minter Dial talks about his new book "You Lead: How Being Yourself Makes You a Better Leader

Jan 11th, 2021 28m 38s

There is a need for a new kind of leadership; one that bleeds personality and rings true to employees and customers alike who crave authenticity. You Lead argues that business leaders deliver superior results, communities of engagement both ins

Bhushan Sethi talks about the future of work in a post-covid hybrid workplace with a K-shape recovery.

Dec 21st, 2020 29m 33s

Sam and Bhushan talked about the future of work and how PwC along with their clients have managed through the covid crisis and more importantly what they plan to do in 2021.We talked about how Bhushan sees 2021 as a more hybrid workplace with e

Charlie Cadbury talks about Donate Now and the future of frictionless voice commerce.

Sep 25th, 2020 13m 10s

Charlie Cadbury is the Chief Executive Officer of Say It Now, the award-winning voice technology company, who have teamed up with digital advertising exchange DAX to enable people to respond directly to radio advertisements using their smart sp

Faisal Galaria talks about the rebirth of Blippar and the future of augmented reality.

Aug 10th, 2020 52m 21s

Sam and Faisal talked about his recent tenure as CEO of Blippar. Why now is the right time for an Augmented Reality (AR) rebirth and what are his expansion plans globally for Blippar.We also talked about his amazing career from the early days i

Mukul Devichand talks about why the BBC is launching their own smart voice assistant called ‘Beeb’.

Jul 13th, 2020 46m 10s

Sam talked with Mukul about how this very early beta project fits into the wider BBC strategy across multiple services to act as a trusted public service voice assistant to the vast array of content on TV, Radio and Sounds (podcasts), be it loc

Martin Steers talks about the Community Radio Awards and the New UK Community Radio Network.

Jun 13th, 2020 1h 15m

Sam Sethi had the pleasure to interview Martin Steers the station manager at NLive Radio and Chair of Community Radio Awards.We talked about how NLive is continuing to run their station through COVID and what software Martin is using to enable

Nigel Eccles talks about the growth of Flick & the on-going litigation of FanDuel

May 3rd, 2020 27m 31s

Sam talks with Nigel Eccles about his new company Flick. A companion app for sports fans who want to watch a game while chatting online with likeminded fans and friends.Nigel talks about how Flick has raised £4m and was growing nicely until Cov

Jay LeBoeuf talks about AI Powered Podcasting Studio Descript

Apr 30th, 2020 25m 8s

Sam talks with Jay LeBoeuf about Descript’s latest version 3.4 which now includes live transcription, overdub and publishing to the web. This is on top of its already powerful realtime audio and text synchronised editing.

Tommy Nagra talks about BBC raising £70m via the Big Night In, his love of Liverpool FC and Diversity in the BBC.

Apr 29th, 2020 39m 13s

Sam Sethi talks with Tommy Nagra about the BBC Big Night In and how in less than three weeks it managed to put on a live show that raised £70m. We talk about how Tommy started in the BBC and how he helped discover comedians like Sanjeev Bhaskar

James Minter talks about going from Head Honcho of Adam St to a Headhunter

Apr 25th, 2020 36m 2s

Sam Sethi talks with James Minter about the story of his club, Adam Street in London which not been told.James is as self-effacing as he is charming, recounting with warmth the role it played in the dotcom boom.“Adam Street was absolutely amazi

Gustaf Kranck talks about the Vagus Test and the Vagus ECG Watch for health monitoring Covid-19

Apr 24th, 2020 19m 33s

Gustaf is the 'Inventor of the Vagus ECG Test'. He describes himself as a curious, open-minded brain-explorer, engineer and serial entrepreneur. For more than 25 years he has successfully started, run and exited more than ten companies globa

Cinzia Ricciardone talks about Code4Covid community initiative to help people and companies get online

Apr 24th, 2020 9m 27s

Formed as a Slack group on March 16th by a couple of ex-colleagues, the code4covid community now counts over 700 tech volunteers: and with other groups joining in, it keeps growing!The team's mission is to find technology solutions to help pe

Sarah Frier talks about her new book: No Filter The Inside Story of Instagram

Apr 20th, 2020 54m 12s

Sam Sethi talks with Sarah Frier about why she wrote the book, how Kevin Systrom and Mark Zuckerberg clashed from the start and eventually what led to Kevin leaving instagram. We also talk about the threats to Facebook from Snapchat, Tiktok an

Minter Dial talks about adding Heartificial Empathy to the future workplace post Covid-19

Apr 11th, 2020 1h 10m

Minter Dial serves as a keynote speaker, conference animator and consultant on branding, leadership and transformation for blue-chip companies, conferences and events around the world. Minter is an author and filmmaker of award-winning "The L

Nick Dalton talks about their new book - Change the Workplace, Change the World.

Apr 9th, 2020 58m 43s

Nick Dalton is the Executive Vice President, HR for Unilever. He has been in HR for over 30 years, working globally, regionally, and locally. He has also worked in all areas of HR, from leading international negotiations with trade unions to ma

Rory Sutherland talks about his new book Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

Apr 8th, 2020 1h 34m

Sam Sethi talks with Rory Sutherland

James Mulvany talks about the future of podcasting and radio - transcriptions, search and monetisation.

Feb 11th, 2020 40m 23s

Sam Sethi talks with James Mulvany about how to get started quickly with podcasting. We then talk about some of the challenges of recording, distributing and discovering a new podcast before we finally look into the future of podcasting. Googl

Steve Pankhurst talks about the rise and fall of the UK’s first social network - Friends Reunited.

Feb 3rd, 2020 1h 20m

Stephen Pankhurst was the co-founder of Friends Reunited along with his wife Julie. In 1999, Stephen’s wife Julie, was pregnant with their first child. She had just used the internet to track down her long lost Grandfather that she had never

Shaa Wasmund talks about her amazing career and her new book. “How to fix your sh*t”.

Jan 23rd, 2020 1h 20m

Sam Sethi talked to Sháá Wasmund about where her name originated from and how she managed to work for Chris Eubank, Sir James Dyson, Sir Bob Geldof all before she was 30.We talked about how she turned down £45m by not working for Michael Birch

Dr Al Pinkerton talks about the effect of social media in the UK & US elections

Jan 20th, 2020 1h 19m

Sam Sethi talks with Dr Alasdair Pinkerton and co-host Matt Hodges-Long about the recent UK general election where Alasdair stood in Surrey Heath as the PPC (Parliamentary Prospective Candidate) for the Liberal Democrats.Despite losing to Mr Go

Dan Wagner talks about his rollercoaster career; from AIM listed at 30 to starting again at 50.

Jan 10th, 2020 1h 23m

Sam Sethi talks with Dan Wagner about his three startups MAID, Venda and Rezolve. We talked about how he started MAID in 1984, when he was only 20 before the web and search engines really existed. How he came to be the youngest CEO of Brightsta

Andy McLoughlin talks about starting as an Entrepreneur before turning into a Venture Capitalist.

Dec 31st, 2019 59m 49s

Andy McLoughlin is a partner at Uncork Capital in San Francisco, focusing on B2B software opportunities.Uncork Capital is a seed-stage venture firm that commits early, helps with the hard stuff, and sticks around. Really.Andy's investments