Bulletproof Entrepreneur
de Alan Smith
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A podcast for entrepreneurs – reverse engineering the formula for successful scale, sale and exit.
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- #95 Mark Rhodes: The Case for the Strategic Accountant Every SME Founder Wishes They Had · 1 h 9 min · Episodio 95Send us Fan Mail Mark started his career at Ernst & Young writing transaction reports for corporates being sold, then walked away from big-business M&A to work with his dad in…
- #94 Nigel Shanahan: The 20-Year Journey From IBM Salesman to a £50M Tech Exit · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 94Send us Fan Mail Nigel Shanahan started his working life as a chartered accountancy trainee who "failed miserably", found his feet as an IBM salesman for 12 years, then left with…
- #93 From the vault: Scaling to a £100m ARR business and successfully exiting with Mark Mills · 1 h 3 min · Episodio 93Send us Fan Mail Mark Mills started buying and selling at school — literally, with bags of broken biscuits from the biscuit factory where his aunt worked. Three decades and five…
- #92 Niraj Shah: How a Stroke at 30 Rewired His Definition of Wealth and Built Five Businesses · 1 h 13 min · Episodio 92Send us Fan Mail Niraj was 30, healthy and getting ready for work when a stroke put him on the bathroom floor and eventually into the stroke unit at St Mary's Hospital in London…
- #91 Sam Smith: From Northern Rock Crisis to London IPO and Super Scalers · 52 min · Episodio 91Send us Fan Mail Sam Smith spent 24 years building FinCap from a single desk and a phone into a London-listed investment bank, becoming one of the few women to lead a public…
- #90 Martin Lightbody - The Scottish Baker Who Conquered America's Cake Aisle · 1 h 11 min · Episodio 90Send us Fan Mail Martin Lightbody turned a fourth-generation Scottish bakery into the number one celebration-cake supplier to the UK supermarkets, scaling from 50 staff to 1,200…
- #89 The 20-Year Overnight Success: Failed Businesses, Crippling Debt, and Building GoProposal Into an Eight-Figure Exit · 1 h 34 min · Episodio 89Send us Fan Mail James Ashford sold GoProposal to Sage for an eight-figure sum. People hear that and picture a clean line from idea to payday. It took him two decades, several…
- #88 The Insider Who Now Teaches Founders to Beat Private Equity · 1 h 24 min · Episodio 88Send us Fan Mail Nick Bradley has sat on the other side of the table for more than 50 acquisitions and 27 exits. He knows exactly how private equity firms assess a business…
- #87 He arrived in the UK with £500 and sold his company to one of word's biggest banks - Anton Padmasiri · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 87Send us Fan Mail Anton arrived in the UK with £500 in his pocket. Years later, he founded WealthOS. He recently sold it to one of the world's largest banks. In this episode, Alan…
- #86 Darya Simanovich — I Arrived in London with £300 and Built 15 Businesses. Here’s What Actually Worked. · 1 h 10 min · Episodio 86Send us Fan Mail Darya Simanovich arrived in London 20 years ago with £300, no contacts, and barely any English. Today she runs two businesses, holds a full-time role supporting…
- #85 The Music Entrepreneur Who Sold Out To Stay In - Ian Grenfell of Quietus · 1 h 12 min · Episodio 85Send us Fan Mail Ian has spent 45 years in the music industry, managing Simply Red, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, and Suede. He started at 17 with a boot full of vinyl and a…
- #84 He was told his business was worth nothing. Five years later he sold it for millions - on his own terms. · 1 h 16 min · Episodio 84Send us Fan Mail Neil Osmond never set out to be an entrepreneur. He was a pharma executive with a steady job, a young family, and no savings when a friend showed him something…
- #83 From Bomb Survivor to 32x EBITDA Exit - Andrew Scott’s Extraordinary Entrepreneurial Journey · 1 h 16 min · Episodio 83Send us Fan Mail He survived a bomb at four years old. Lost everything in his thirties. Then built a group of companies employing nearly 100 people and sold his media business…
- #82 He Ditched Cash, Bought Bitcoin, Then Listed His Company on the Stock Market: Entrepreneur, Scott Ellam of XCE. · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 82Send us Fan Mail Scott Ellam started with a £13,000 basic salary, cold-called his way into closing a company acquisition at 22, and then built a thriving international executive…
- #81 Rachel Murphy - From £0 to Eight-Figure Exit in 1,042 Days · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 81Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Rachel Murphy sold her company during lockdown. While building the national COVID-19 digital service. Without ever meeting the buyers in person…
- #80 The 2025 Budget: Hidden Traps Every Founder Must Avoid - with tax guru Malli Kini. · 54 min · Episodio 80Send us Fan Mail The Autumn Budget landed last week - and while the headlines were busy talking about ‘black holes,’ and ‘fairness,’ the fine print tells a very different story…
- #79 The exact playbook to 3 x the value of your business - Graham Stephen of Bizval · 1 h 7 min · Episodio 79Send us Fan Mail What if your business isn’t worth what you think it is? What if it’s less than you think? What is it’s more? Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most owner-managed…
- #78 Sir Tom Hunter - The Incredible Journey From Market Stall to Billionaire. · 1 h 22 min · Episodio 78Send us Fan Mail Today on The Bulletproof Entrepreneur, you’re going to hear from a man whose story is almost impossible to compress into a single sentence - because it’s part…
- #77 “Everyone Exits - You’re either bought out, pushed out or wheeled out” - with Brian Hill · 1 h 26 min · Episodio 77Send us Fan Mail Today on The Bulletproof Entrepreneur, I’m joined by Brian Hill — ex-soldier, endurance athlete, entrepreneur, and the founder of a business called Pathfinders…
- #76 From Council Estate to £70 Million Exit: The Unbelievable Story of Andrew Hulbert · 1 h 20 min · Episodio 76Send us Fan Mail My guest today is someone whose story is nothing short of remarkable. From a tough upbringing on a council estate in Oxford to building one of the UK’s most…
