Talking Business with Jason Stockwood | Episode 11

In this episode we’re Talking Business with Jason Stockwood

Jason is the Vice Chairman of Simply Business and it’s difficult to sum up his career in a paragraph ...

Vice-Chairman & CEO at Simply Business (acquired for £400m in 2017)

Non-Exec at Skyscanner

MD of Match.com & Lastminute.com

Simply Business won ‘best place to work in the UK’ in ‘15 & ‘16

Jason was voted ‘Best Leader in the UK’ in 2016

and in 2018 he published his first book ‘Reboot’

Jason has also invested in 25 companies, including Sanctus.

In this episode Jason talks to us about:

- how making money isn’t the end goal

- how growing up on a council estate and studying philosophy translated to being good at business

- why the existential question ‘who are you?’ drives him so much

- how it felt to make a life-changing amount of money

- why genuinely caring about people has been good for business

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Jason is one of the most successful people I know but also one of the most genuine and I felt lucky to get the chance to sit down and talk business with him for an hour - hope you enjoy :)

GB x