Insights

Eric Ries: How to scale without losing your soul

The Lean Startup author's new book argues that growth itself can corrupt founders' missions – and lays out the governance tricks to stop it happening to you.

MASAJ: Scaling a wellness company in the city

Two founders, one advert in a start-up magazine and a plan to fix an industry that burns out its therapists in six years flat

Sharmadean Reid: How a pandemic pivot led to 39BC

From a pandemic-forced pivot to a Cleopatra-themed birthday party, Sharmadean Reid takes us through the journey of her fourth business

Sharmadean Reid: The anthropologist mindset that built a business empire

Sharmadean Reid explains how a gap in the nail art market and one bold pitch built the foundations of WAH Nails

How Pebl turned historic data into an AI goldmine

The HR specialist has found a smart way to turn its old work data into a modern asset for its employees and customers alike

Paula MacKenzie: PizzaExpress CEO shares her turnaround playbook

Seven CEOs in 11 years, a billion-pound restructuring and 73 closures. Paula MacKenzie on how she's turning PizzaExpress around

How Zoom is scaling beyond the video call

Zoom UK & Ireland head Louise Newbury-Smith on the strategy behind the company's reinvention and what leaders can learn from it

Stephen Johnson on the cash rule that saved Quooker UK

From rejection to £100m in revenue, Quooker UK's MD Stephen Johnson on the cash discipline and the help that got him there

Martha Lane Fox on why AI's future must be built by all of us

She made a name for herself during the dot-com boom. Now, she's helping to set the UK's AI agenda

Emmie Faust: From £200k on Dragons' Den to Female Founders Rise

Emmie Faust on delegation gone wrong, bootstrapping over VC money and closing the funding gap for female founders

Mehma Bridgen: Scaling The Fuel Store to £100m

The Fuel Store co-founder on the discipline behind scaling to £100m, cold-calling customers and hiring a successor

Nick Jenkins on building Moonpig and selling it for £120m

The founder and Dragons' Den investor on why he's never set a marketing budget and the price change that turned Moonpig around overnight