Invaluable tips for hiring into Startups, from a veteran founder.

Synchronous vs asynchronous management, how the future of work could drive the future of education, and discipline as a path to freedom.

Leverage, ambition vs risk, different phases of focus throughout the life of a business.

The future of work and how to adapt, transformation of education through tech, learnings from 20+ years in the Startup game.

Have you thought much about paternity leave? Or just accepted the status quo?

You don't need GCSEs to create an incredible Startup!

Is optimism something you can learn?

Startup life - the less risky option?

Today’s guests founded an app that gives your family its own secure ‘personal media’ space where you can connect with each other today, share memories from yesterday, and even leave messages for tomorrow. All free of advertising and without your data ever being up for sale. They’re on a mission to shake up a world dominated by unicorns and questionable morals, with something that puts family first. In this chat with Amrit, we hear how Michael’s habit of sending emails to his youngest son to...

Discussing life’s many routes to success, ‘essentialism’ and how to find your focus, and how our guest applies critical thinking to raising his children.

Could this app save the high street?

Running a business, and a marathon before breakfast.

After a PHD in computer architecture at Cambridge, followed by a move into the semiconductor industry, Rosemary Francis found herself wanting more. So, she set out on her own to fix the problems she’d encountered during her career. Ellexus was born, creating tools for I/O diagnostics, optimization, and dependency detection for high-performance computing at large enterprises. Things took off around the time she gave birth to her first child, and Ellexus went on to an incredible exit in 2020....

Taking on Netflix and winning...sort of

David Grimm’s move into the world of entrepreneurship was highly unconventional. A chance meeting in China during his gap year led him to find out about the problems faced by dairy farmers, and years later, he quit his job in consultancy to form a solution. A bold move, and one that ultimately didn’t pan out due to government regulation. However, this experience gave him a unique perspective to bring to the other side of the table, in his current role as Investment Director at UCL Technology...

Leila Zegna spent her early career helping other founders achieve success - notably the founders of Innocent Drinks, Endeavor, Plum District, and DNA Sequencing company GenapSys. Now she runs Kindred - her groundbreaking new model for Venture Capital, where each founder in the portfolio becomes a co-owner of the fund! In this chat with Amrit, she discusses how reputation in the world of VC is built not by the founders who get funded, but the ones that don’t, and gives us her framework for...

Today’s guest needs very little introduction - he’s the CEO and Founder of Raspberry Pi; a charity that puts the power of computing and digital making into the hands of people all over the world. Eben talks with Amrit about his transition from engineer to the founder of a truly groundbreaking company, how to deal with psychopaths (they make up 10% of the populace), and he codifies how to fit two jobs and a family into your life. Find out more about Raspberry Pi here:...

Paul Kemp-Robertson left a career as an ad man to launch Contagious; a publication that shares creative ideas to help agencies and brands innovate. In this chat with Amrit, he talks about launching in the incubation of a larger company to mitigate some risk, how his company evolved to offer consultancy to meet clients needs, the ways advertising can work for good, and how his teenage children help him to stay on the pulse of modern cultural shifts. Paul’s book “The Contagious Commandments” is...

This is an episode absolutely brimming with knowledge bombs! Wil Schroter is the founder of Startups.com: a company that’s helped founders raise over half a billion dollars of capital, and in doing so he’s observed the the challenges that pop up for almost every founder. Wil regales stories from founding multiple companies, of overcoming imposter syndrome, and being broke. He also shares a particularly frank account of the impact his work had on his relationship with his son, and leaves us...

Today’s guest first founded charity Teach First, in an effort to break the link between low family income and poor educational attainment. He now heads up tiney, on a mission to make the highest quality child care accessible to more families, and empower a generation of micro-entrepreneurs to deliver amazing care from their own homes. In this chat with Amrit he talks about learnings from his last business to this one - the mission, values, and strategy trifecta - and providing a breadth of...

Today’s guest is a talented multitasker, and the first ‘side-hustler’ to feature on Startup Dads. Alongside heading up communications at digital payments platform Soarpay and presenting their podcast, Scott runs the CBD guide using his podcasting skills. In this chat with Amrit, they discuss the value of growing an audience, whatever business you're in, and how to prioritise self care to make sure you can thrive as a Dad. Keep up to date with everything Startup Dads related on Twitter -...

Can you still succeed when profit isn’t your primary motivation? Today’s guest shows us that you can. In this episode she tells us how staying true to your purpose can do a whole lot of good for your bottom line, and in her case - a whole lot of good for the world. Tessa is the founder of Olio: the app that connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses, so surplus food can be shared, not thrown away. In this conversation with Amrit they discuss how she built Olio from home...

It can be a daunting prospect starting a new business in an industry where you have no previous experience - but that’s exactly what today’s guest did. Tom Hooper, Founder of Third Space Learning lays out the pros and cons of making the jump, in his case, from finance to the education sector, and provides some golden insights for anyone thinking of doing the same. He also discusses with Amrit how choosing a culture, rather than a sector, might be the best way to think about choosing a...

Today’s guest set out to create a VC firm to support cash strapped, time poor founders in so much more than just funding. Leo Ringer’s expertise is in navigating the world of regulation - to enable companies within his portfolio to jump through the hoops of working regulated markets without the holdups. In this conversation with Amrit, they discuss his journey into the often opaque world of Venture Capital, how he began his business, and how he wants to enable all of us to understand this...

Our guest today took an unconventional route on her way entrepreneurial journey: Building and exiting a landscaping business at a young age, before heading off to business school. Claire Cockerton really is a student of the school of hard knocks! A specialist in designing, building and operating innovation centres, as well as advising companies on establishing innovation internally. In this episode she speaks with Amrit about instilling internal motivation in your children, the importance of...