Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Michele Romanow became the youngest Dragon in the world, aged just 28. In this episode we hear how Michele went from a coffee and caviar entrepreneur at University to setting up Clearbanc which is looking to shake up how funding is provided for companies who are looking to make it into the e-commerce space. Clearbanc recently launched in the UK.  The UK has always been a home to some of the most e...

Chris is the co-founder of Octopus Group, they employ 750 people and have over £9 billion pounds under management. You can sign up to the email newsletter Jimmy mentioned here Octopus was started in his bedroom in the year 2000, he’d left a solid and stable job with Mercury to set up his own fund management company in his mid 20s.  We learn in this episode that perhaps unsurprisingly it took a cou...

Graphcore is backed by Silicon Valley Venture Capital Sequoia, who have backed Apple, Google, WhatsApp, Youtube, Instagram and Zoom amongst many others. Nigel Toon founded Graphcore in Bristol, and now is employing 450 people across Beijing, Palo Alto, Oslo and Cambridge.  Highlights of the episode: Nigel thinks that the impact of Artificial Intelligence is both overblown and underestimated How we...

Explaining our plans for the second series of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future and how we are hoping to grow the show, and how for this series we are partnering with Octopus to bring the great stories of entrepreneurs from across the whole of the UK and beyond. A reminder you can follow us on Instagram: @JimmysjobsTwitter: @Jimmysjobs And most importantly on LinkedIn. Jimmy also has a email newsletter t...

Christian was appointed as the Editor at City AM five years ago, it has a brilliant reputation for nurturing exceptional talent, the likes of Oliver Shah, Sunday Times business editor, kate McCann of Sky News, Julian Harris and Tom Welsh of the Daily Telegraph all started their careers at the paper. it has been an incredible five years in the UKs history and we get his reflections on how journalis...

Pete, part of the founding team of lastminute.com and Trulia joins us in the second half of this episode to discuss the 48 hours where he met Steve Jobs and Mike Moritz of Sequoia Capital. How he had to change mindset when transitioning to an investor from being a founder, demonstrating no matter what you have achieved an agile mindset is very important. In addition, we discuss how modern day entr...

Pete Flint was the founding member of LastMinute.com with Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox. Following the billion dollar acquisition, Pete went to study for an MBA at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He noticed how it was hard to get accomodation, and so this led to him founding Trulia, which turned into another unicorn being acquired by Zillow for £3.5 billion. He has recently written a br...

We invited Hayden Wood back on the show in a special bonus episode to talk about how the government had announced plans to create 250,000 jobs as part of the Green Industrial Revolution. Hayden discusses the plans to reach Net Zero and a bit more on what they look for as employees at Bulb. As a reminder you can follow us on Instagram and Twitter @JimmysJobs We are also on LinkedIn too at Jimmy's j...

Sarah Wood OBE founded Unruly, which was acquired by News Corp in 2015 for a nine figure sum. Sarah is now the Senior Independent Director at TechNation. We talk about a PANDA strategy for hiring and how teams can ensure diversity of hiring. You can check out Sarah's book, 'stepping up, how to accelerate your leadership potential' at https://steppingupbook.co.uk/ Please do consider sharing this ep...

Sarah is the co-founder of Unruly, the global video advertising marketplace that was acquired by News Corp in 2015 for a nine figure fee.   Sarah is now the Senior Independent Director at TechNation, a network for ambitious tech entrepreneurs. She is also a best selling author, her book 'stepping up: how to accelerate your leadership potential' which is a must read career handbook for millennials....

Izzy Obeng, left her role as a management consultant two years ago to set up an accelerator for black and ethnic minority founders.  Whilst they have only been going two years, they have already seen 2,000 people pass through their programmes and are working more with local governments to help reach those most in need of the advice. They are expanding now so that it is not just purely entrepreneur...

Thank you for checking out the show notes. Please do consider signing up to our email newsletter. And follow us on LinkedIn at Jimmy's Jobs of the FutureWe are on Instagram and Twitter: @jimmysjobs Thank you for your continued supportEpisode summaryIf I were summing that up to the Prime Minister, I would suggest something along the lines of the following.  PM, we met with an interesting company th...

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The two articles that I mentioned in the summary that Hayden sent across after the show:https://cultureby.com/2019/01/someday-we-will-all-play-for-the-patriots.html https://www.patspulpit.com/2017/5/18/15644770/bill-belichick-explains-why-the-patriots-always-have-one-of-the-smallest-coaching-staffs-in-the-nfl Jimmy is joined by one of the UKs leading entrepreneurs, Hayden Wood founded Bulb alongsi...

This show is going to be presented by Jimmy McLoughlin. who up until last year,  was advising the UK Prime Minister on business specialising in technology and entrepreneurship.  The aim of this podcast is to interview entrepreneurs about where they think the jobs of the future are coming from and recreate a Prime Ministerial briefing. The truth is, no-one knows what the future holds, but the peopl...