Thrive in Global Markets

Jack is the co-founder of what3words, an innovative app that enables the simplest way of giving location. 

what3words labels each of the world's 57 trillion 3 meter squares with 3 words in 47 languages from Arabic to Zulu. With investors like Intel, Mercedes, Sony, and Subaru, Jack and his team extended the reach of the company to over 170 countries and 650 businesses in a period of 8 years. 

Described by BBC as ‘the app that saves lives’, what3word is used by government organizations, NGOs, and various businesses throughout the world. The app is already very popular among emergency services across the UK and does not seem to be slowing down anytime soon. 

In this episode, Jack talks about his vision for the following years of what3words, how he got the idea in the first place and how he transformed it from a small initiative to worldwide success.

Geoffrey Bowden, general secretary of EUATC is back for another episode! EUATC is an umbrella body for national associations of translation companies throughout Europe and currently represents 24 European countries and has 10 strategic partners including the USA and Canada.

Believing that translation companies are the key to a globalized world, Geoffrey helped establish EUATC as a young man and has been supporting associations that support language service providers ever since. Under EUATC’s roof, Geoffrey has been working to promote the highest quality and a united voice for the language industry and helping to improve the training of high-quality linguists across Europe.

In this episode, Geoffrey talks about how EUATC works to minimize the implications of the global pandemic and the consecutive remote working for translation companies, the growth and the improvements in the language industry over the past years, and how vital a language partner is for any company looking to go global.

To learn more: https://euatc.org/events/t-update-2021/

Tanya Rolfe is the co-founder of Her Capital. Her Capital is a seed venture fund in Singapore - investing in female-founded, scalable businesses across Southeast Asia. Tanya’s 15-year legal career at some of the world’s largest law firms has hounded her ability to influence and collaborate with people from diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Eager to enter the world of venture, Tanya founded Ladies Investment Club in Singapore, 2017.

Dedicated to helping women who do not have equal opportunities as men, Tanya grew a team of 40 female investors which enabled them to build their investment portfolio and credentials. Knowing that only 3% of VC funding goes to women-led companies and that female-founded companies make up only 6.8% of funded startups, Her Capital actively seeks out female founders and captures their potential for superior returns.

In this podcast, she talks about how we can hinder gender inequality in business and how successful women can become if they are given the same opportunities. She explains the importance of establishing equality between women and men for our society’s future.

Joel Alexander Van der Molen is a multi-award-winning English Actor and Filmmaker, best known for telling his own life story in the Documentary Films, The Magnificence of You and Living My Illusion on Amazon Prime.

He grew up in South East England, attended local Schools, was a young British Tennis hopeful, and studied acting at The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

After years of auditions and acting work that did not pay the bills, Joel changed course and set up a Telecommunications company serving small to medium businesses.

Listening to the calling from the depths of his being, he began a transformational journey in both life and business in 2016. Daring to make certain changes that challenged others but resonated with millions of people who suffer in silence.

He sold his Telecommunications company in 2019 to focus on Film Production and acting. He set up Vandercom Films, a company that documents people's memoirs. Taking them on a profound journey, recalling their life and times to create a beautiful film for family to treasure forever.

In his heart-to-heart conversation with our host Levent Yildizgoren, Joel talks about trusting our inner knowing to find and do what we love.

Lara Morgan is a successful entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and investor. At the age of 18, she taught herself sales, by 21 she was managing a Yellow Pages sales team across six countries in the Gulf. By the age of 23, she started her first business Pacific Direct selling manufactured toiletries to the hotel business.

Starting from nothing, she built her company into a thriving international business operating across more than 100 countries worldwide. By 2008 she sold her controlling stake for £20 million.

In this episode, she talks about how she taught herself the skills of being an entrepreneur, how she learned to sell across the world, and why even now, she’s still developing her skills.

Ozan Dagdeviren is a serial entrepreneur, author, and founder of Startups of London, a media company that gives a voice to London’s thriving start-up ecosystem. Their website provides guides to entrepreneurship, insights, and videos showcasing start-up success and failure.

Today he presents the Mental Fitness Podcast for Entrepreneurs and writes books on entrepreneurship.

His latest book, Startups Grow with People, offers great insights for any budding entrepreneur. 

Having started a business in Turkey before moving to the UK, he is a great believer in the UK’s start-up ecosystem. He discusses the challenges of building a business from scratch and the importance of getting to know the market.

In addition, he also talks about the different conversations he has working with people in Turkey compared to those he has here in the UK. As an entrepreneur working across different territories, understanding differences in the market will be crucial. 

Regular listeners will recognise Levent Yildizgoren, managing director of TTC wetranslate. In this special edition of the podcast, Geoffrey Bowden, founder of the European Association of Translation Companies, turns the tables on Levent.

Both men have successful track records in the translation industry and both have come to the UK from overseas. Today Bowden runs a successful PR agency and runs a radio station where he uses his journalistic background to put politicians on the spot.

Here he puts Levent in the interviewee’s chair to find out more about his life, the origins of TTC wetranslate and his work with the University of Essex building the Translation Challenge. This inspiring competition brings real business leaders to the table and challenge students to translate for them.

Levent talks about how the challenge is helping to close the gap between academics and business. 

Professor Monika Schmid is the head of department of language and linguistics at the University of Essex. She received her PHD at the University of Dusseldorf and speaks four languages; German, Dutch, English and French.

The university has earned headlines for its commitment to becoming carbon neutral. New sustainable buildings are cropping up against the background of its existing stark 60s architecture.

Her main area of research is the loss of natural language among multilingual people. It’s a problem she’s experienced directly as a multi linguist herself.

She talks about how she stays fresh with her languages and the peculiar challenge of switching between the two.

In addition, she tells us more about what it’s like to be a professor at one of Britain’s most forward-thinking universities, and how work and personal life becomes blurred. With working from home complicating things further, maintaining a work life balance can be a struggle.

In this episode, Levent talks about why a company trading internationally should write their documents in plain English.

According to internet world stats, World internet population is nearly 5 billion. English speaking countries are 27% of the total internet population. This means you are likely to be getting visitors to your website or have connections in your profiles, that English is not their first language.

Once you know you have an international audience it is important to reach them with your content to keep them interested in what you are doing.

Writing in plain English provides readability for a wider spectrum of audience. By keeping short sentences and using familiar words, you can easily create a more clear and consistent writing and reach your audience.

Mark Twain once said, “I didn't have time to write you a short letter, so I wrote you a long one.”

Visit TTC wetranslate website: https://ttcwetranslate.com/

Download ‘Nine Translation Slip-Ups to Avoid’ and find out how to manage your multilingual documentation effectively: https://bit.ly/2Z5xCT3

Turkey is a bird that is widely associated with festive season but seems to be a bird of international confusion.

The name of this bird varies greatly between languages, and many different places of origin are implied. Some languages imply that the bird comes from Peru, France, India and even Rome.

But where exactly does this Christmas delicacy come from? Why does each language associate this bird with a foreign country? Does the bird really has seven faces as Japanese believe? What is turkey called in Turkey?

Let’s talk about the mystery surrounding this bird!

Visit TTC wetranslate website: https://ttcwetranslate.com/

Download ‘Nine Translation Slip-Ups to Avoid’ and find out how to manage your multilingual documentation effectively: https://bit.ly/2Z5xCT3