With lockdown coming to an end, we thought this is a good time to showcase all the outstanding founders we have interviewed for our ‘How I Grew My Brand’ podcast series. Click here to listen to the inspiring brand stories from the founders of Bloom & Wild, Mindful Chef, Proper, Deliciously Ella, Neom Organics, Sipsmith, Camden Town
The Piper Podcast: Flight Club founders on raising £160,000 in an afternoon
[15 Mar 2020] - Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after…
The Piper Podcast: Inexperience – and a selfie – helped Flash Pack disrupt the travel industry
[23 Feb 2020] - Radha Vyas and Lee Thompson, co-founders of Flash Pack, have told how inexperience of the travel sector proved to be a key component in helping…
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Community power – our latest virtual Geekmeet with 100 brands
[20 Dec 2020] - ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their…
Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller
[6 Dec 2020] - We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié…
Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth
[12 Nov 2020] - We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018,…
Learn. Earn. And have fun: growing cultures in challenger brands
[25 Oct 2020] - If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the…
Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after their bank lending failed. ‘Our builders were going to go off site, so we basically had six hours to borrow money. It was horrible,’ says Moore in the latest podcast
Have you listened to our founder stories?
[28 Jun 2020] - With lockdown coming to an end, we thought this is a good time to showcase all the outstanding founders we have interviewed for our 'How…
The Piper Podcast: Inexperience – and a selfie – helped Flash Pack disrupt the travel industry
[23 Feb 2020] - Radha Vyas and Lee Thompson, co-founders of Flash Pack, have told how inexperience of the travel sector proved to be a key component in helping…
Recent news
Community power – our latest virtual Geekmeet with 100 brands
[20 Dec 2020] - ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their…
Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller
[6 Dec 2020] - We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié…
Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth
[12 Nov 2020] - We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018,…
Learn. Earn. And have fun: growing cultures in challenger brands
[25 Oct 2020] - If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the…
Radha Vyas and Lee Thompson, co-founders of Flash Pack, have told how inexperience of the travel sector proved to be a key component in helping the brand to disrupt the $8.8 trillion industry.‘It’s an advantage not to have worked in the industry which you want to disrupt because you apply a different approach to problem
Have you listened to our founder stories?
[28 Jun 2020] - With lockdown coming to an end, we thought this is a good time to showcase all the outstanding founders we have interviewed for our 'How…
The Piper Podcast: Flight Club founders on raising £160,000 in an afternoon
[15 Mar 2020] - Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after…
Recent news
Community power – our latest virtual Geekmeet with 100 brands
[20 Dec 2020] - ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their…
Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller
[6 Dec 2020] - We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié…
Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth
[12 Nov 2020] - We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018,…
Learn. Earn. And have fun: growing cultures in challenger brands
[25 Oct 2020] - If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the…
Fairfax Hall and Sam Galsworthy, two of the three co-founders of premium craft gin brand Sipsmith, have told how an ‘insane level of naivety’ helped them to rewrite 200 years of history and build a new gin distillery in London. Hall and Galsworthy are childhood friends from Cornwall who had been ‘nicking gin from the drinks cabinet
Have you listened to our founder stories?
[28 Jun 2020] - With lockdown coming to an end, we thought this is a good time to showcase all the outstanding founders we have interviewed for our 'How…
The Piper Podcast: Flight Club founders on raising £160,000 in an afternoon
[15 Mar 2020] - Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after…
Recent news
Community power – our latest virtual Geekmeet with 100 brands
[20 Dec 2020] - ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their…
Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller
[6 Dec 2020] - We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié…
Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth
[12 Nov 2020] - We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018,…
Learn. Earn. And have fun: growing cultures in challenger brands
[25 Oct 2020] - If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the…
Giles Humphries and Myles Hopper, two of the three Mindful Chef co-founders, have told how learning to ‘relinquish power’ has helped drive their healthy recipe box brand to even greater heights. Giles Humphries and Myles Hopper, two of the three Mindful Chef co-founders, have told how learning to ‘relinquish power’ has helped drive their healthy
Have you listened to our founder stories?
[28 Jun 2020] - With lockdown coming to an end, we thought this is a good time to showcase all the outstanding founders we have interviewed for our 'How…
The Piper Podcast: Flight Club founders on raising £160,000 in an afternoon
[15 Mar 2020] - Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after…
Recent news
Community power – our latest virtual Geekmeet with 100 brands
[20 Dec 2020] - ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their…
Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller
[6 Dec 2020] - We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié…
Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth
[12 Nov 2020] - We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018,…
Learn. Earn. And have fun: growing cultures in challenger brands
[25 Oct 2020] - If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the…
Amelia Harvey, co-founder of The Collective, has told how she applied learnings from her early career at Kellogg’s and L’Oréal when launching her gourmet yoghurt brand. ‘Even though they’re huge businesses, they were very entrepreneurial in terms of the way they gave you the responsibility to carve out your own role,’ says Harvey in the
Have you listened to our founder stories?
[28 Jun 2020] - With lockdown coming to an end, we thought this is a good time to showcase all the outstanding founders we have interviewed for our 'How…
The Piper Podcast: Flight Club founders on raising £160,000 in an afternoon
[15 Mar 2020] - Steve Moore and Paul Barham, co-founders of social darts chain Flight Club, have told how they were forced to raise £160,000 in an afternoon after…
Recent news
Community power – our latest virtual Geekmeet with 100 brands
[20 Dec 2020] - ‘We were weeks away from going bust, so we decided to be completely transparent with our loyal community of Snagglers and ask them for their…
Our £7m investment into multi-award winning villa brand, The Thinking Traveller
[6 Dec 2020] - We are excited to have invested £7m into The Thinking Traveller, the world’s most thoughtful villa brand, backing founders and joint-CEOs Huw and Rossella Beaugié…
Mindful Chef finds new home with Nestle after 5x growth
[12 Nov 2020] - We are delighted to announce that Mindful Chef has been bought by Nestlé. In a wonderful two-year journey since we invested £6m in December 2018,…
Learn. Earn. And have fun: growing cultures in challenger brands
[25 Oct 2020] - If you come to our office and weave your way into the Cosy Room, you will find our library of business books, amassed over the…