Business
I'm In! This week we have Piers Linney, most known from BBC's Dragons Den & The Secret Millionaire. Entrepreneur, Investor, Adviser, Speaker and Creator of the #StartUp#ScaleUp course, it's fair to say Piers Linney has had his fair share of business experience and adventures!
Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Piers grew up in a former mill town in Lancashire where he attended the local comprehensive school. His mother is from the Parish of St. Philip in Barbados and came to the UK in the early 1960s and spent her career working for the NHS before retiring and starting her own business. His father is from working class Manchester and was one of the first to earn an academic scholarship to attend Cambridge University in the 1950s.
The host Seb also shares a similar upbringing in Leeds and in this episode they talk upon the current BLM movement and diversity and inclusion within entreupenurship and workplace culture. Piers is often referred to as an entrepreneur and a TV personality following his appearances as an investor on the prime-time BBC show ‘Dragons’ Den’ and the Channel 4 series, ‘The Secret Millionaire’, he has a professional background in law, investment banking and fund management. On Dragons’ Den he invested in the personalised children’s book publisher Wonderbly, which was the #1 fastest growing company in Tech Track 2017.
He has experienced both success and failure and is a recognised champion of entrepreneurship, technology and small and medium-sized enterprises. Although it is difficult to align objectives, culture and timescales, Piers also believes that value can be created by partnerships between small innovators and large enterprises.
As you know, The Startup Secrets Podcast is now the 3.5X Podcast and we continue to bring you the best entrepreneurs from the UK and around the world. In this episode we discuss: Investing and starting businesses in an economic downturn The coronavirus pandemic Raising finance Workplace culture Co-founders Structurting shareholder agreements Pier's story and TV personality Marketing Investing Black entrepreneurship, Black Lives Matter Diversity and Inclusion And much more... Check our social channels for our latest competition in which we're giving away FREE access to #START-UP with Piers Linney. https://www.pierslinney.com/startup-c... His website: https://www.pierslinney.com/