The Disrupters Podcast
1) CEO of Netflix: Reed Hastings
Kamal Ahmed and Rohan Silva lift the lid on the realities of starting your own business. Kamal and Rohan speak to founder and CEO of Netflix, Reed Hastings. Reed discloses the mistakes made in h...Show More
2) Temie Giwa-Tubosun, founder of LifeBank
At thirty weeks into her pregnancy, Temie Giwa-Tubsoun was in America when she was rushed to the hospital for an emergency C-section. Had she been in Nigeria, difficulties locating and distributing bl...Show More
3) Sir James Dyson
Sir James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes to create the cyclone vacuum cleaner. He talks to Kamal and Rohan about patience, persistence, and why the best businesses come out of a passion.
4) Surinder Arora, founder and chairman of Arora Group
At the age of 11, Surinder Arora was living at home in Punjab, India. He had fallen in with a bad crowd and moved to England to live with who his Aunt and Uncle, only to learn they were not who he tho...Show More
5) Comptoir Libanais: Tony Kitous
Tony Kitous arrived in London from Algeria with nothing. Today he has thirty-five restaurants and employs over 1000 staff. He talks to Kamal and Rohan about sacrifice and risk.
6) Mumsnet: Justine Roberts
Justine Roberts, co-founder of Mumsnet, on the need for more women investors, maintaining a good culture at work and the benefits of scaling slowly.
7) Co-founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman
In 2016 LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. The professional networking site's co-founder Reid Hoffman talks to Kamal and Rohan about how he became one of Silicon Valley's most succe...Show More
8) Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman, founders of lastminute.com
The poster children of the UK’s internet boom talk to Kamal and Rohan about the rise of lastminute.com, but how in business as in life, we have to be careful what we wish for.
9) The Cambridge Satchel Company's Julie Deane
‘I let the confidence in myself be shaken’ Julie Deane started The Cambridge Satchel Company at her kitchen table with £600. Ten years on the company sells 10,000 bags a month. But getting to this ...Show More
10) DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis
Rohan and Kamal talk to artificial intelligence expert, neuroscientist and entrepreneur Demis Hassabis. A former chess child prodigy, Demis is chief executive of DeepMind, the artificial intelligence...Show More