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Moonpig: Nick Jenkins and the £120m card company

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In this episode you will learn;

  • How he started his career in Russia working for the infamous Mark
  • Rich as an ‘intrapreneur’ and what that process taught him about
  • business.
  • The value of being a sole founder
  • His definitions on focus, and how important that can be for someone who describes himself as ‘easily distracted’.
  • How he started an MBA knowing he’d most likely
  • come towards the bottom of the class but still be one of the only
  • people to start an actual business - and he was right on both fronts.
  • And lots more of course.

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    You can listen to the other Secret Leader's interviews mentioned in this episode here:

    • Charles Tyrwhitt – How Founder Nicholas Wheeler Went From an Aston Martin to Global Domination
    • Just Eat – How David Buttress Co-Founded and Built a £5.5bn Company
    • Jo Malone – The Alchemist Devoted to Spreading the Poetry of Scent
    • Huel: How to Become a Food and Drink Millionaire with Julian Hearn
    • Slack: Cal Henderson - An Engineer’s Fairytale Story
    • Alain De Botton - Finding Answers to Life’s Tricky Questions
    • Atomic Habits - Little things can transform your life
    • DECIEM - a tale of tragedy and beauty with CEO Nicola Kilner
    • Trinny Woodall reveals her surprising, untold startup journey - from dotcom bust to beauty boom today
    • Myprotein: How to bootstrap a £500 overdraft into a £350m exit, with Founder Oliver Cookson
    • After his startup IPOd in record time everything fell apart, with Eve Sleep co-founder Kuba Wieczorek
    • MedMen:what went wrong at the cannabis industry’s first unicorn, with Founder and former CEO Adam Bierman
    • MasterClass: how to get over a stutter and attract A-listers like Anna Wintour and Martin Scorsese, with Founder & CEO David Rogier
    • Duolingo Founder: Being a genius, inventing CAPTCHA & getting 500m users - Luis Von Ahn
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