In The Business

Three years ago Owen Clater was making sandwiches at Subway. Today, at 20, he runs Becks & Clates, a marketing and tech agency turning over roughly half a million a year, and he has a stake in eleven other companies on top of that.

In this episode we recorded live in front of a room of students, Owen takes us back to the very beginning. He started his first business at 14, not for money, but because he was sick of feeling embarrassed and wanted to be taken seriously. He borrowed £80 off his dad, launched eleven dropshipping stores, and every single one made nothing. Then came a failed clothing brand. Then a marketing agency that earned zero for its first full year because he did all the work for free to build up case studies.

He is honest about the parts most people hide. Being the shy, skinny kid with acne. The playground moment that made him decide to change. Teaching himself confidence through boxing and the gym. And the make or break point in month thirteen, working a whole year for barely £5,000 profit, right on the edge of quitting, before it suddenly jumped to £60,000 and then £80,000 a month.

Along the way Owen breaks down why your network really is your net worth, how he turned free work into paying clients, why he thinks you need almost no money to start, and the mindset shift he swears by: stop trading your time for money, and start trading your money for other people's time. His closing advice on building a personal brand is worth staying for.

Myles Shaw didn't set out to be an entrepreneur. At 23, with his first child on the way, he just needed to find an extra £100 a week. So he started selling SIM cards on eBay for 5p profit a time. That scrappy hunt for a bit of extra cash became runrug.com, now the world's biggest online seller of made to measure hall and stair carpet runners, and part of a Grimsby flooring group turning over millions.In this episode Myles takes us right back to the beginning: the failed side hustles, getting kicked off eBay, the cease and desist from Mazda, and the moment he sat staring at a roll of carpet in his dad's shop and wondered if anyone would buy it online. He also gets honest about the hard stuff, from working in a family business and the testing relationship with his dad, to making his own brother redundant during COVID.We also dig into how a self taught kid from Grimsby now runs one of the most AI forward small businesses in the country, why he thinks opportunity spotting can't really be taught, and the advice he'd give any young person sitting on an idea. His closing thought on the diamond miner is worth staying for.

Everyone says AI is taking graduate jobs. Danilo McGarry, who spent 20 years running some of the biggest AI programmes in the world, says the truth is far more uncomfortable: lazy leadership in the boardroom.

In this episode Danilo reveals the boardroom politics behind mass job cuts, why AGI could arrive by next summer, what OpenAI's finances really show, why Elon Musk is wrong about universal basic income, and how he built one of the UK's fastest growing companies using swarms of AI agents. He also shares the exact frameworks young founders should use to start an AI first business today, plus an announcement made for the very first time on the show.

We cover: AI and graduate jobs, AGI and ASI, hallucination, OpenAI, the UK as an AI superpower, universal basic income, validating business ideas, building an AI first company, hyper personalisation and the death of the internet.

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Roei Samuels was nearly thrown out of school at 14. He was selling burned CDs in the schoolyard before most people knew what a side hustle was. Years later he grew the sports media company RealSport to 9.5 million monthly users and engineered the buyer into acquiring the whole business. Then he did something most founders never would: he walked on stage and tried stand up comedy.In this episode Roei breaks down the real blueprint for building a company in 2026. We get into the brutal truth about selling a business that nobody tells you, the £40k in the bank while burning £800k a month, the story behind Connected (now the 18th fastest growing company in the UK), the AI opportunity he would chase if he were 20 today, and why ADHD has been his single biggest advantage.ABOUT THE GUEST:Roei Samuels is a serial entrepreneur. He scaled and exited the sports media company RealSport and now runs Connected, ranked 18th by The Sunday Times for the fastest growing companies in the UK and 67th by the Financial Times across Europe.

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They were told they'd never amount to anything. Now they've got 20+ million views on a single video, cleaned a TfL train, and stopped Simon Squibb in the street.The Maka Twins went from being "looked down upon" their whole childhood and getting a Chatterbox award in primary school, to building one of the UK's most-watched cleaning brands, cleaning TfL trains, airplanes and Big Ben ambitions, pulling 64,000 new followers from a single video and racking up 20+ million views on one branded post for Carhartt. This is their full story.

In this episode of In The Business podcast, James and John open up about growing up with no entrepreneurial role models, why their first business flopped when all they cared about was margins, the dream that sparked their student cleaning company, the moment they decided to clean places nobody asked them to clean, bumping into Simon Squibb on the street, how they really think about mentorship, and why "boring businesses make the most money."

Whether you're a young entrepreneur just starting out or someone trying to build a brand from zero, this one's for you.

🎙️ In The Business is a podcast for young entrepreneurs, hosted by Harrison Turner and Tom Mumford. We sit down with founders who've built real businesses, from their step one to the first million, and unpack the stories behind the success.If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe and leave a comment telling us your biggest takeaway.

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Entrepreneur Tawhid Juneja went from earning £150K/month in healthcare recruitment to cocaine addiction, £2.4M bankruptcy, and 33 months in prison. Now he's rebuilt, owning businesses and football club AFC Welwyn. This is his full story.In this episode of In The Business podcast, Tawhid opens up about growing up with a single mum, building his first recruitment business, how the 2008 recession forced him to pivot into healthcare, the ego and addiction that came with making serious money, what it was really like inside a prison cell, and how he rebuilt his entire life with a £20K loan from his aunt and no mobile phone contract.Whether you're a young entrepreneur just starting out or someone going through a tough time, this one's for you.

0:00 Intro

1:13 Growing up with a single mum

2:09 First business: rec-to-rec recruitment

5:04 Healthcare recruitment, garage to Ed Miliband

6:41 When the drugs started

9:05 How addiction escalated with money

10:02 Drug culture in sales environments

13:30 "I didn't realise until I was in a prison cell"

15:02 Taking cocaine into his own sentencing

16:09 From the high life to prison

18:33 £2.4 million bankruptcy and losing everything

19:56 Mansion to sheltered accommodation to prison cell

23:19 Making £150K/month at the peak

23:35 Rebuilding from zero with a £20K loan

25:42 Running a business from pub wifi on a brick wall

26:18 Advice for young entrepreneurs starting from nothing

27:42 What good market research actually looks like

38:19 Using AI to scale a recruitment business

40:57 Do degrees actually matter to employers?

42:16 "Prison was the best thing that ever happened to me"

45:45 What young people should take from this story

48:47 The single best piece of business advice he's received

49:49 What he'd say to his 25-year-old self🎙️

In The Business is a podcast for young entrepreneurs, hosted by Harrison Turner and Tom Mumford. We sit down with founders who've built real businesses, from their step one to the first million, and unpack the stories behind the success.If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe and leave a comment telling us your biggest takeaway.

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Ask for anything else and the clue is in the name. Flat White Or F*ck Off is a concept by Rory Sutherland brought to life by Tom Noble, Charlie Hurst, Will and Lucia Sudlow. Serving only one product, the business is a bold experiment in simplicity and provocation.In this episode we speak with the founders about the £27,000 pop up in London, what's next for the brand and why they started this business.

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Grace Hardy is a content creator, accountant, bookkeeper, and business owner.

In this conversation, she shares why she decided to start her own business and the very first steps she took to launch her company.

Timestamps:

00:00 Choosing the Unconventional Path

01:12 The Decision to Start a Business

02:50 Building the Business: First Steps

04:06 Client Acquisition Strategies

07:47 Content Creation and Social Media Impact

19:55 Challenges of Entrepreneurship

20:49 Hiring the Right People

23:34 Advice for Young Entrepreneurs

Paul Sherratt is the Founder & CEO of GloveGlu, the company behind the world’s first goalkeeper glove grip spray.

In this interview, we take Paul back to step one...the moment GloveGlu began. He shares how the idea came to life, the early challenges he faced, and the key lessons learned while scaling the brand into a global business.

In The Business is a podcast that takes entrepreneurs and founders back to the very beginning, uncovering how they launched their business, landed their first customers, and the lessons that shaped their journey.

Raising investment isn’t about having a “cool idea.” It’s about proving you can execute, sell, and build something real without acting entitled or wasting investors’ time.In this episode, angel investor Phil McSweeney (40+ investments; thousands of pitches seen) breaks down what actually gets a yes, what gets you ignored, and the fastest ways founders accidentally sabotage themselves.What you’ll learn: • The first sentence / first two slides that decide whether you’re taken seriously. • Why a pitch should feel like a movie trailer (not an essay). • The reality check investors apply: can this reach £10–20m/year revenue? • Founder traits that matter (and the ones that instantly repel investors) • Why raising money is a relationship, not a transaction. • How young founders can get access and what they must prove first.