Boldt Flavours

This week’s guest is Depop CEO, Maria Raga. Depop is a fashion marketplace in which users, from around the globe, connect to buy and sell pre-loved clothes online. In this episode, Maria talks to Timo about how she conquered rejection when scaling the business, and how she retains equilibrium in a challenging landscape. 

Join Timo as he talks to Tessa Clarke, Co-Founder and CEO of OLIO. OLIO is a free, neighbour-to-neighbour app that tackles the problem of food and household waste, by enabling surplus items to be donated, rather than thrown away. Hear about Tessa’s leadership journey so far, what she had to ‘unlearn’ from her corporate career, as well as her views on culture, teams and talent. 

Series 4 of the Bold[t] Flavours podcast kicks off with Zumba Co-Founder and CEO, Alberto Perlman. Zumba launched in 2001 and has since become a global phenomenon, spanning 186 countries, reaching 15 million people per week. Hear Alberto share his passion for startups and entrepreneurship, his insights into successes and failures, and how he has navigated his business through the pandemic.

In this very special Christmas edition, join The Body Coach, Joe Wicks MBE, as he turns the tables and interviews Timo. Hear how Timo’s background and close-knit family have influenced his drive, passion and work ethic today, how he has transformed Gousto into the UK’s only profitable B Corp Unicorn, as well as what motivates and inspires him every day. 

In the penultimate episode of the series, Timo talks to leading retail executive, Susanne Given. Susanne has been at the forefront of the retail industry, including its transition to online, for the past two decades. Hear her thoughts on what makes an exemplary board, as well as key learnings throughout her extensive, international career. 

In this episode, Timo chats to Gousto’s EVP of Operations, Charles Whitehead. Prior to Gousto, Charles worked at Tesco PLC and thedocyard, a world-leading deal management platform. Hear his views on impostor syndrome, his ‘people first’ leadership philosophy, as well as his experience of guiding Gousto through its exponential growth. 

Rishi Khosla OBE, a serial start-up entrepreneur, and co-founder and CEO of OakNorth Bank, is Timo’s guest this week. Hear him discuss how he approached his second start-up in a completely new way, what he has learned on his scaleup journey, as well as his views on becoming a highly successful business leader. 

Timo’s guest, this week, is David Benigson. David is the Founder and CEO of Signal AI, one of the world’s fastest-growing applied AI companies. In this episode, he discusses how his entrepreneurial parents shaped his thinking, how he divides his leadership journey into 5, distinct chapters, as well as his views on the world of AI.

Timo’s guest this week is enterprise software sales leader, Jennifer Bers. Hear her talk about her fascinating leadership journey, how she facilitates conditions for optimum culture and performance, as well as what makes sales great. 

This week, Timo talks to Jeremy King about his international upbringing, how pattern recognition aided him in launching market and brand intelligence agency, Attest, and his views on what makes a superlative CEO.