The Entrepreneurs

Steve Tidball is the CEO and co-founder of Vollebak, a men’s outerwear label launched with one question: what does the future of clothing look like? Steve and his brother Nick dreamed up the brand while running ultra-marathons in extreme conditions. Today, leaning heavily on science and technology, their team creates pieces from materials most have never thought to use, from titanium to graphene.

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Ellie Webb is the founder of Caleño, a non-alcoholic spirit inspired by the flavours and colours of Colombia. Since its launch in January 2019, the Bristol-based brand has sold almost 30,000 bottles of the juniper and inca berry alcohol-free spirit.

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Dan Murray Serter is the co-founder of London-based Heights, which manufactures a multivitamin aimed at improving brain function. Heights came about as Dan struggled with insomnia and his previous venture, the mobile-shopping platform Grabble, was failing. Dan tells us how he convinced Grabble’s investors to refocus on Heights.

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Carl-Magnus Norden is the CEO and founder of Volta Trucks, a Swedish company that’s developed an electric truck aimed at commercial use in dense urban areas. A serial entrepreneur, Norden came out of retirement in Switzerland to start the company.

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Louise McGuane launched Irish-whiskey label JJ Corry in 2015 after spending more than 20 years working in marketing for premium drinks brands. She has revived the practice of whiskey bonding, a popular practice in Ireland before the industry was decimated in the 1930s. McGuane sources, matures and bottles her own blends and single malts from her family farm in County Clare.

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Christian Pauzenberger is the co-founder of Vielö, the Austrian skincare brand behind a range of products made using liquid organic whey, a byproduct of the dairy industry. Launched in 2017, the company’s Whey Series is designed and produced entirely in Austria and includes a range of hand and body washes, and lotions. Sold directly to the consumer, and carried at select stockists, the certified organic products symbolise the circular economy model of business and production.

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Raja Dhir is the co-founder of microbiome company Seed. Based in LA, Seed is a collective of scientists and doctors, researching how bacteria can improve human health and that of our planet. Its first product, a daily synbiotic, focuses on the stomach.

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In revisiting our favourite conversations with technology-company founders in 2019, we hear from Richard Pierson, a former ad executive who founded meditation app Headspace with a Buddhist monk; Luis von Ahn, CEO of free language-learning tool Duolingo; and Michelle Kennedy, founder and CEO of the app for mothers, Peanut. Plus: getting people to use their phones less and creating companies for both profit and good.

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We talk to some of the leaders in the world of fashion on how to cut waste and design more sustainably. The brothers Christopher and Graeme Raeburn tell us about their "reduced, recycled and remade" concept, and we chat with Kresse Wesling from Elvis & Kresse about recycling London’s discarded fire hoses to create luxury handbags and her programme that reuses leather offcuts from Burberry.

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Chris Hall is the executive vice-president of Long Meadow Ranch, a family-owned California wine company and integrated agricultural business. Started after his parents bought the ranch in 1989, the company now runs four wineries, a restaurant, café and farmer’s market. As California now deals with the effects of climate change and widespread wildfires, Long Meadow Ranch has become a leader in environmentally friendly practices – also known as full-circle farming.

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