Podcast
The Entrepreneurs
Hosted by Monocle · EN
Monocle Radio’s weekly tour of the most inspiring people, companies and ideas in global business, from startups to heritage brands, covering the best in hospitality, design, fashion and retail.
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The business of better running with the founders of One Track Club
2d ago00:29:16Summary readyAnthony and Laura Fletcher, the husband-and-wife co-founders of One Track Club, discuss how they turned a free running club into a fast-growing business and share lessons on what it takes to scale a personalised service. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryCEO Jean-Marie Mognetti on building CoinShares
1w ago00:29:42Summary readyJean-Marie Mognetti, the CEO and co-founder of CoinShares, talks about how he helped build one of Europe's leading-digital asset managers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryHow a boutique studio landed the Obama Presidential Center brief
2w ago00:27:39Summary readyAs the Barack Obama Presidential Center opens in Chicago, we meet a husband-and-wife team whose brand studio was appointed the prime design partner for the historic civil landmark. Tom Crabtree and Patricia Callaway discuss Manual’s work with the Obama Foundation and the inherent challenges to a presidential commission.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryA visit to France’s biggest sauna, Sant Roch, and Publicisdrugstore
3w ago00:28:03Summary readyMonocle’s Fernando Augusto Pacheco meets Chloé Bouscatel, co-founder of Sant Roch, Paris’s newest and largest sauna. Plus: Fernando chats champagne and magazines with the CEO of Publicisdrugstore, a Parisian institution on the Champs-Élysées.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryDesign that changes how we see the world: Tombino and ÖÖD
Jun 300:29:23Summary readyArchitect and designer Jason Lempieri speaks about Tombino, a project that turns manhole-cover designs from cities around the world into functional art. Plus: we head to Tallinn to meet Andreas Tiik, co-founder of ÖÖD.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryRoland Horne on scaling WatchHouse cafés, from London and Abu Dhabi to New York
May 2700:28:01Summary readyWe meet Roland Horne, founder and CEO of WatchHouse, a coffee chain with almost 30 global locations and counting. Plus: former private-jet broker Alex Hunter discusses why he left aviation to pursue hospitality and the relocation of his celebrated Chelsea restaurant, The Sea, The Sea, to a bigger site.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryOrbitworks and the UAE’s race to space
May 2000:28:18Summary readyAndrew Mueller speaks with Hamdullah Mohib, acting CEO of Abu Dhabi-based satellite manufacturer Orbitworks, about the UAE’s rapidly growing space industry, the company’s recent deal with France’s CNES and the journey from his diplomatic role as Afghanistan’s ambassador to the US to the space sector.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryThe Entrepreneurs Live in Shanghai: Museum of the future
May 1300:29:04Summary readyColin Chinnery and Purat ‘Chang’ Osathanugrah discuss their respective cultural institutions in Beijing and Bangkok. We explore how they’re making art more accessible, as well as sound culture and the challenges posed by AI.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Summary‘When you’re winning, change your game’: Hair raising success rules from Oribe co-founder Daniel Kaner
May 600:29:25Summary readyOribe co-founder Daniel Kaner talks about creating a luxury haircare brand that brings fashion, fragrance and performance together. He shares why the best time to innovate is when you’re gaining momentum. Plus: Dilli House founder Arpit Kaushik on going against the grain and creating an ‘anti-perfume’.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
SummaryThreads and tea: new takes on Japanese tradition with Ichijiku and Ito En
Apr 2900:27:51Summary readyFounder Aaron Benjamin shares how his Tokyo-based luxury fashion brand Ichijiku grew out of a collection of gifted kimonos and has since evolved into what he describes as more of an art gallery than a traditional label. Plus: executive advisor and tea ambassador, Rona Tison, on Ito En’s global expansion. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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