Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

When I left Downing Street, I took a small stake in a company called Cryptograph - a leader in the Non Fungible Tokens (NFT) space and more broadly digital art as a whole. It was founded by today’s guest, Hugo, who is one of the UK's pioneers of NFTs, having got interested in it in 2017.NFTs are a brand new technology and the industry is fast-moving and complicated - it's widely discussed in tech...

Today's guest has one of the most interesting jobs I've ever come across. Dr Eliza Filby is a Generations Expert -  a writer, speaker and historian who specialises in ‘Generational Intelligence’.With her research incorporating everything from Boomers to Gen Z,  she helps companies to understand generational shifts in everything from politics to society and, most importantly for this episode, the w...

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This episode is one of two worlds colliding.  Today's guest, Henry de Zoete, similarly began his career as a special advisor in government- in the service of Michael Gove in the Education Department. Since leaving government, Henry went on to land the best money-to-equity deal ever seen on Dragons Den - a record which still stands to this day. Henry was the co-founder of Look After My Bills (LAMB)...

Amazingly it's been a year since I first published Jimmy's Jobs of the Future - when my daughter hadn't yet learnt to walk and we were only allowed outside 1 hour a day. Since then we've reached the top 10 of Apple's Business Podcasts, charted #1 in careers, grown to a team of 4 and are allowed to go to concerts once again. But why did I start a podcast? How did we get to this stage? Where's it go...

Earlier in this series, we looked at Bubble, a marketplace digitising trust to help fix a sector in dire need of innovation: childcare. This episode is looking at another marketplace but this time at the other end of the care spectrum, Elderly care, which is in equal need of a shakeup. With care homes dominating headlines over the past few weeks, this episode explores just exactly how Peter thinks...

This is the first in a new type of episode for Jimmy's Jobs of the Future - instead of exploring an entrepreneur or a business,  we're looking at specific jobs and asking leading people in that field just exactly what it entails. There is an increasing trend in entrepreneurship and business of the title "Chief of Staff". It's even been mentioned a few times on this show, with Salima Vellani from K...

 Today's episode is special for two reasons- firstly it's one of the first we've recorded in person a long time. But this is also our second in the series organised with our partners: Octopus- who back the entrepreneurs of the future. And there are one better who exemplify that than today's guest Pooja Sikka.  Pooja is a still practising GP, founder in her own right and formerly a partner at Octop...

This week's guest is Ari Last, founder of the on-demand childcare app Bubble. Bubble was actually integral to the early days of this show- being able to book a carer quickly allowed me to record this show during my daughter's nap times and get it off the ground. Childcare is in what Ari terms 'systemic failure' and in this episode, we discuss how it can be solved: from how the pandemic has changed...

This is the second part of our interview with Octopus co-founder Simon Rogerson. If you haven't listened to it already, do check out the first half which is quickly becoming one of our most downloaded episodes yet. In this episode, we talk about how Octopus grew and how you maintain an entrepreneurial culture as a business grows from 0 employees to over 750. Keeping that special disruption and ent...

Our guest today is Simon Rogerson, co-founder of the Octopus Group. He says that you can broadly split people into two categories in life: those that are a drain and those that radiate energy. It is something that I wholeheartedly agree with.  And Simon is one of life’s biggest radiators, giving off energy wherever he goes. Octopus are a partner on this podcast and one of the joys of that partners...

Our guest today is Alice Bentinck, co-founder of Entrepreneur First. EF (as it's more commonly known) celebrate their tenth year this week and co-founders Alice & Matt have gone from strength to strength - even fostering their first billion-dollar company in Tractable … which also happens to be the UK's 100th unicorn. But it has not been plain sailing - as you’ll hear today. There are many myths a...

Our fantastic guest today is Alex Stephany, the founder of Beam, which is helping homeless people find careers through crowdfunding. One of the most powerful things you can do for someone is to give them a job and a sense of purpose. All the entrepreneurs on this show are job creators, but Alex is creating opportunities for some of the hardest people to find jobs for.  Beam terms itself as a socia...

And we’re live!  A brand new series of Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future launches today. And what better time to launch than when careers and the future have never been more on the minds of young people and parents alike- A-level and GCSE result days. Our first guests need no introduction- Ben Francis & Noel Mack are the founder and Chief Brand Officer of Gymshark. Setting up their HQ in the Midlands, Gy...

We are back for the third season of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future. 15 months into the pandemic, the UK's jobs market is holding up strongly once again, with lower levels of unemployment than the US, Canada, France, Italy, and Australia. Part of this is the furlough scheme but a longer-term trend is the fact that UK entrepreneurs are creating jobs each day that don’t get the same media headlines.  And...

Today’s guest is Salima Vellani, the founder and CEO of KBox Global- a company pioneering something called host kitchens, the next wave of innovation in the food delivery space.  They have raised around £17 million from investors, making Salima one of the most heavily backed female founders in the UK.  My very first meeting in Number 10 was with Will Shu, the founder of a then up and coming food a...

This week’s guest is Giles English, who co-founded Bremont Watches with his brother in 2002 with the aim of bringing watchmaking back to British shores. Bremont have recently opened a state of the art technology centre called ‘The Wing’- a 35,000 sq ft manufacturing centre enabling the full machining and fabrication of Bremont’s watches, right here in the United Kingdom. Time was a precious resour...

One of the most valuable assets to an entrepreneurial ecosystem is veteran entrepreneurs lending a hand to first-timers. I first met Digby as part of the ICE (International Conclave of Entrepreneurs) community on a James Bond themed weekend- whilst swapping tips and tricks to navigate the business world isn’t quite 007 material, it’s because of these communities that the UK startup scene is flouri...

For this episode I’m joined by Bejay Mulenga, Founder of Supa Network. I first met Bejay at the 2014 Conservative Party conference. He was about to speak in front of 3,000 people just before George Osbourne took the stage- no mean feat at 19 years old. He told his story about his first foray into entrepreneurship- setting up a tuck shop for his school, making £15,000 in his first term and how he t...

Today we’re looking back and exploring some choice highlights from our pilot series with the help of this week’s guest: Hannah Russell.  Hannah is the co-founder of Mags Creative, one of the UK’s most successful independent podcast producers responsible for some the most exciting shows in the UK with over 350,000 people tuning into their shows each week.  We discuss how Hannah went from setting up...

During my time in Government, I was involved in a number of meetings where we would try to create memorable lines which could sum up Govt policy, you can probably think of a few famous ones yourself.  Tough on Crime, tough on the causes of crime.  Long term economic plan Vote Leave, Take Back Control  Brexit means Brexit  There are also some less memorable ones, which I enjoy thinking about from t...

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is hiring, read more on our next chapter here and you can sign up to our newsletter here. Welcome to Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future, presented by me, Jimmy McLoughlin, a former Downing Street Adviser on business and entrepreneurship.  Today, we welcome one of my favourite entrepreneurs, Alexandra Depledge who runs the architectural company, RESI, which is looking to revoluti...

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is hiring, read more on our next chapter here and you can sign up to our newsletter here. Jimmy’s Jobs of the Future is presented by me, Jimmy McLoughlin, a former Downing Street adviser on business. Our last episode was with Dom McGregor, we talked about his story and how it was perhaps the stereotype of how we characterise the entrepreneurship journey … Uni drop out wh...

Dom and Steven Bartlett founded a social media consultancy called social chain  in their early 20s in Manchester.  It is in some ways, it is perhaps the stereotypical entrepreneurship journey we characterise, university dropouts to building a company worth hundreds of millions in just a few years.  They were incredibly successful, hiring phenomenal youngsters and telling some of the worlds biggest...

Rachel Carrell is the founder of Koru Kids.  Rachel has raised £14.1 million, making her the most backed female founder She talks about how she founded Koru Kids to improve the accessibility to childcare, a system which has not been updated in decades that frankly doesn’t work well for the parents, the child carers themselves and of course the most important people in the equation, the children th...