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Finding Future Leaders
Finding Future Leaders is the podcast where university students interview founders.
Hosted by David Abel, founder of The Digital Lightbulb, each episode comes from one of our founder-led growth projects with UK universities. Students spend weeks researching how founder-led and family businesses grow. Then they put their questions to the founders who built them.
You hear the honest answers. How the business really started. What nearly broke it. How the founder had to change as a leader, and when…
Episodes
Finding Future LeadersWhat Founders Really Need to Grow (Hint: It’s Not Profit)
Ask most people what a growing business needs and they’ll say profit. Ask founders, and you get a very different answer. In this episode from our University of…
Finding Future LeadersThe One Idea Every Founder Should Hear
What’s the one idea every founder should hear? At the end of our founder-led growth research project with the University of Reading, David and Rasool from The…
Finding Future LeadersJames Cowdale, &SONS: Know Your Customer, Let Go, and Success Beyond Profit
How do you build a brand people genuinely want to belong to? In our first episode, University of Reading students put their questions to James Cowdale…