Bulletproof Entrepreneur
A podcast for entrepreneurs – reverse engineering the formula for successful scale, sale and exit.
Inspired conversations with world-class entrepreneurs and the specialists who support them.
Bulletproof Entrepreneur
Latest Episodes
#94 Nigel Shanahan: The 20-Year Journey From IBM Salesman to a £50M Tech Exit
Nigel Shanahan started his working life as a chartered accountancy trainee who "failed miserably", found his feet as an IBM salesman for 12 years, then left with a colleague and £250,000 of business angel funding to launch a text-messaging busi...
#93 From the vault: Scaling to a £100m ARR business and successfully exiting with Mark Mills
Mark Mills started buying and selling at school — literally, with bags of broken biscuits from the biscuit factory where his aunt worked. Three decades and five businesses later, after a £20,000 debt from the failed pay phone venture that took ...
#92 Niraj Shah: How a Stroke at 30 Rewired His Definition of Wealth and Built Five Businesses
Niraj was 30, healthy and getting ready for work when a stroke put him on the bathroom floor and eventually into the stroke unit at St Mary's Hospital in London. Fifteen years on, he has built five businesses across property, medita...
#91 Sam Smith: From Northern Rock Crisis to London IPO and Super Scalers
Sam Smith spent 24 years building FinCap from a single desk and a phone into a London-listed investment bank, becoming one of the few women to lead a public financial business in the UK. She bet on small caps when the big banks were running for...
#90 Martin Lightbody - The Scottish Baker Who Conquered America's Cake Aisle
Martin Lightbody turned a fourth-generation Scottish bakery into the number one celebration-cake supplier to the UK supermarkets, scaling from 50 staff to 1,200 and £60 to 70 million in turnover. Then he sold up, took the whole idea to America,...
