Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

In this episode, I interviewed Jean Phillipe Courtois, one of Microsoft's first employees outside of the US. He joined the company in 1984 and now reports directly to CEO Satya Nadella. We discussed his personal journey, the foundation he created to inspire young entrepreneurs, and the work being done to develop tech careers in the UK. This episode was filmed in partnership with Microsoft, above t...

This episode is the second part of our conversation with Patrick O’Mahony, Creative Director of NEWSUBSTANCE.  This episode is all about their ambitious project ‘See Monster’ in Weston-Super-Mare. Part of the Unboxed Festival, it’s an old gas platform (think ‘oil rig’) converted into a public space to inspire conversations around climate change and renewables. We went there to film these two episo...

This episode sees us go to one of the UK’s most ambitious art projects - See Monster, down in Weston-Super-Mare near Bristol.  This is a gas platform or perhaps more commonly known as oil rig, repurposed into an interactive environment to explore and inspire conversations around Climate Change and renewables. We caught up with the Artistic Director of this Project- Patrick O’Mahony- and record thi...

One of the biggest issues founders face is finding amazing talent - it’s one thing to have an idea, but to build it you need talented people on your team. What’s the best way to do it? Where is the best place to go? How has the pandemic changed it? How do you maintain a culture with a new team working in a hybrid format.  We had the terrific opportunity to speak to someone who thinks about this mo...

This year has seen Jimmy’s Jobs talk to some of the most influential minds in the UK. From Rishi Sunak and Andrew Bailey right through to Martha Lane Fox, these are the thinkers and shapers of the British economy, the voices that generate headlines and shape the national debate.  Today’s guest is a worthy addition to this list- Matt Clifford is the founder of Entrepreneur First - a unique institut...

Recorded in October, this week’s episode is with Nigel Verdon- Founder of Railsr (formerly known as Railsbank) who are pioneering something called ‘Embedded finance’ - best described as the financial layer of the internet. Founding a startup is stressful, difficult and often painful at times - one of the most important skills of a founder, as many previous guests have said, is resilience. And afte...

Today’s guest is someone I have wanted to interview for a very long time. Tania Boler founded the female technology firm Elvie around a decade ago and last year they raised a whopping £70m series C funding round.  But that figure has an even greater significance than the size alone- in 2012, the Femtech sector raised just $62 million in its entirety. In 10 years, that represents amazing growth and...

The economics of football are immense, intricate, and understood by few - with weekly wages in the hundreds of thousands, and player transfers in the hundreds of millions. One of those few is Simon Kuper, today’s guest and author of Soccernomics - the seminal book on how the money flows in football and one of my favourite books of all time.  He is releasing an updated version of the book prior to...

You can up to Jimmy's substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politics. If I were to read today’s guest’s entire CV, I would fill this entire episode description.  Martha Lane Fox is a name that speaks for itself - she is one of the defining figures in 21st century British Entpreneurship, best known for founding lastminute.com. She has since dedicated her career to...

Our guest today is Ben Houchen, Mayor of the Tees Valley since 2017. When he first ran, his odds were 200/1 but he has gone on to become the Conservative politician with the largest electoral mandate in the North of England. Born in Teesside, you can hear Ben’s passion for his area - after growing up there and seeing no real change he is on a mission to bring huge-scale businesses into the region-...

Our guest today is Tom Rowley, owner of Backstory, London’s newest independent bookstore situated in the heart of Balham.  As a  journalist-turned-bookseller, his journey has led to him writing for some of the most recognizable names in the press like The Economist, The Washington Post, and The Daily Telegraph. He originally started Backstory as a market stall and after the pandemic decided to tak...

Our guest today is Dan Bladen, the founder of Kadence, an online software helping manage hybrid workspaces. When I first met Dan in Number 10, he was running his wireless charging business - Chargify - until the pandemic decimated everything he had built. In the years since, Dan has become a thought leader in the future of work, with his silicon valley startup, Kadence, backed by Intel and Hewlett...

Today's episode sees the return of Alex Depledge, CEO and co-founder of RESI.Not only is she one of the UK's most impressive female entrepreneurs, she previously came on Jimmy's Jobs in our second season. Our show has grown massively since then and so has RESI- so we thought we'd catch up and do another episode about the founding of RESI and their business journey along the way. We also cover how...

Today's guests are Simon Hood and Charlene Mitchell-Hood, the Founders of Sooper Books - an online children's book platform transforming the way parents and kids engage with reading. It has even been described as the Netflix for children’s books. They currently have over 1 million monthly users on their website and rank #1 on Google for bedtime stories in over 50 countries, attracting the attentio...

Today's guest is Anna Brailsford, the CEO of Code First Girls, a UK-based coding school giving free coding education to women. They have just raised £4.5m and are using it to create 1 million learning opportunities for women . Code First Girls was set up to alleviate the colossal gender gap that exists in coding. It is actually quite frightening: 93% of all professional tech developers identify as...

The brand new series of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is here - and you're going to love it. We're launching with one of the most inspiring UK entrepreneurial stories with Romi Savova from PensionBee. In series 5 we talked to some of the biggest institutions in the UK, including the Bank of England and the next Prime Minister of the UK, Liz Truss. In this series we are going back to our roots with a...

In August we hosted the first-ever live show of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future at The Selkirk in Tooting. It was amazing to see so many listeners in real life and the whole evening was an unforgettable experience and milestone in the journey of the show. We can't do it all again soon. This episode is the recording of the live show to give you a taste of what you may have missed out on: a brilliant dis...

It's the news you've been waiting for...The new series of Jimmy's Jobs will launch next Wednesday 7th September. Last season was a recording-breaking season for Jimmy's Jobs, starting with the Governor of the Bank of England and finishing with the candidates to be Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss. This new series I'm kicking off with one of the most incredible female founders in Romi Savo...

Welcome to the last two episodes of our 5th season. On Friday, I hosted the conservative leader hustings in Eastbourne and got to ask the candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, their thoughts on the future of the economy and how the jobs of the future will play into their mandate. For the first time ever on a podcast, we are democratising these interviews for the wider public to hear, splitting th...

Welcome to the last two episodes of our 5th season. On Friday, I hosted the conservative leader hustings in Eastbourne and got to ask the candidates, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak, their thoughts on the future of the economy and how the jobs of the future will play into their mandate. For the first time ever on a podcast, we are democratising these interviews for the wider public to hear, splitting th...

How do you define an entrepreneur? I think this is one of the most interesting questions and one that has serious effects for public policy. Are you an entrepreneur when you start hiring people? Is a freelancer an entrepreneur? Or, in fact, is anyone who starts any organisation an entrepreneur? Brett Wigdortz, today's guest, is a great example of blurring the boundaries of these definitions. He fo...

Welcome to the second half of our interview with CBD gin founder Sally Wynter. In this episode, we talk a bit more about Sally's personal side of things- the things that make her tick,  the experiences which have formed her worldview and what she has in store next. You can catch the first episode on Youtube or on our website at https://www.jobsofthefuture.co/episodes  Subscribe so you don't miss a...

You may have noticed there is going to be a new Prime Minister in the coming weeks. I am delighted to announce that Jimmy's Jobs is hosting the Conservative Leader Hustings in Eastbourne this Friday, where we will interview both candidates about their views on the economy and the jobs of the future. And we want to hear from YOU! Send us the questions you want the two candidates to answer by signin...

This is the amazing story of how a young female entrepreneur turned an idea on the beach into a ground-breaking reality.  Sally Wynter founded the UK's first CBD-infused Gin company, MUHU Spirits,  and bootstrapped her way into one of the most inspiring entrepreneurial stories of the last few years. This is Sally's first-ever interview about how she did it and it's a really heartfelt discussion ab...

One of my favourite things about doing this podcast is that we get to profile entrepreneurs at all stages of their journey. From the likes of Sarah Wood who exited Unruly a few years ago to the likes of Herman Narula, who raised a mega-round of £500m for his company Improbable. Today's guest is right at the start of that journey - so much so that this is their first-ever podcast. Patrick Pinto is...