The Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurs returns on 5 October with a great new season in which you'll hear about the most inspiring people, companies and ideas in global business. Keep an eye and an ear on monocle.com for all the latest and for information about the print edition of The Entrepreneurs annual created by the team behind Monocle magazine. Thanks for listening!

Food52’s Amanda Hesser tells us why and how, more than a decade ago, she set out to bring cooks together to exchange ideas and recipes, and to deliver a real sense of community in the kitchen. Plus: Anyday’s Steph Chen explains how her innovative range of glass cookware is transforming the microwave’s bad reputation.

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It's holiday season here in Europe – so we’re heading for a hopefully well deserved summer break just for the next few weeks. Keep an eye and an ear on monocle.com for news of our return in September. You can find information there about the latest perfect print edition of The Entrepreneurs annual created by the team behind Monocle Magazine. Thanks as always for listening to The Entrepreneurs. We can't wait to catch up after our break. See you in September.

Héloïse Mercier is the founder and CEO of Lolie, a marketplace featuring the finest brands and products for children. Alongside Lolie’s CCO, Katie Kendrick, she has brought her passions for fashion, design and technology into the business. So why did Mercier, a computer science graduate and a Farfetch alumnus, turn to the children’s market?

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Jeff Kolovson, COO of online wholesale marketplace Faire, has helped to create a vibrant community that champions independent businesses while bridging the divide between digital and bricks-and-mortar. Kolovson and his co-founders launched Faire, which connects independent brands with independent retailers, in 2017. He tells us why having a values-oriented mission might be the most important thing in an entrepreneur’s toolkit. Plus, the founders of Bimble – another enterprise built with the best small businesses in mind – talk about their app’s origin story.

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Jack Lewis is the founder of a flourishing, forward-thinking brand delivering high-quality care for your houseplants. Sowvital’s three-step system offers plants (and their owners) healthy routines and rituals: think of a pioneering skincare regime but for your elephant ears instead of your epidermis. Lewis, who left a promising career in law to follow his twin passions of entrepreneurship and plants, explains how the brand has grown and where he plans to branch out next.

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Founder and CEO Sam Hornsby discusses the power of brands to drive change and their responsibility to transform how they operate. His mission to “decode and recode the culture” of Triptk’s clients involves two key areas: the business of placemaking and the need for a new social contract between companies and their consumers. Plus: more insights from Bob Sheard, co-founder of agency Fresh Britain, about how brands can meet the world’s most urgent challenges.

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Founder and CEO Sam Hornsby discusses the power of brands to drive change and their responsibility to transform how they operate. His mission to “decode and recode the culture” of Triptk’s clients involves two key areas: the business of placemaking and the need for a new social contract between companies and their consumers. Plus: more insights from Bob Sheard, co-founder of agency Fresh Britain, about how brands can meet the world’s most urgent challenges.

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Innovative financial-services company Monty Finance was founded in Lebanon and is headquartered in London. It now has a direct bank – MyMonty – that’s on a mission to “bank the unbanked”, offering solutions for those underserved by traditional institutions. While its successful emergence from the Middle East certainly gives it an interesting perspective, does it also confer a strategic advantage? MyMonty’s CEO, Bruno Martorano, explains.

Back in 2009 in Dublin, the CEO of Web Summit co-founded what is now one of the world’s largest technology conferences. Its sister event, Toronto’s Collision Conference, is the fastest-growing technology summit in North America and it returned last month, in person for the first time since 2019. Cosgrave looks ahead to Web Summit’s newest addition: a Latin American technology summit to be hosted in Rio de Janeiro in May 2023.

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