Hyper Curious Roberta Lucca

Don’t miss Jess Butcher, co-founder of Blippar, in this latest episode of Hyper Curious. We discuss the dilemma that all entrepreneurs have to balance our drive for business impact, versus personal matters, why we women should stop apologising for our decisions, and the need for nuanced conversations in our highly polarised world.

Key takeaways:
The superpower of a scrappy CV
The Blippar journey
Finding co-founders
Why the broader narrative around feminism is binary
Debunking unconscious bias

Dominic Jackson, founder of Escape The City discusses being lost in a large organisation and the process of leaving a corporate job to starting your own business, why his fear of failure is increasing, and surviving a break up with your co-founder. This is an incredibly emotional conversation with a very hyper curious entrepreneur.

Key takeaways:
The genesis of Escape The City
Chasing for impact, not money
Why his biggest fear is failure
Moving on from breaking up with a co-founder
Inspiring his team

Don’t miss British serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist with a track record of delivering accelerated growth: Lara Morgan, on this week’s episode. From having difficult conversations, to hiring the right people, to the importance of our choices, this is an inspiring conversation.

Key takeaways:
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard
How she defines success
The crossover between sport and business
Teach your kids to be tougher
Use enthusiasm to overcome fear
Set bigger goals

If you are curious about eSports, then you don’t want to miss this week’s episode of Hyper Curious with Challengermode CEO and co-founder, Robel Efrem, a curious, determined, funny, kind guy, who’s also very competitive and loves playing computer games.

Key takeaways:
Why eSports are the fastest growing sport in the world
His passion for eSports
His experience of selling his first company
The need for role models in eSports
Challenge of trying to become a unicorn

Hugh Thomas is the founder of Ugly Drinks, a challenger brand founded in 2015 in the UK, before launching in the US in 2018. Ugly is a hyper curious, super irreverent and rebellious new soda brand disrupting the market, taking on the sugary soda industry by making sparkling water accessible to all.

Key takeaways:
The systemic issues with sugar
Ugly is about being authentic
How to expand into US
Why they’ve stayed lean
Why you need to separate yourself as a founder from the brand

Jo Wood is so full of life. It’s hard to imagine she was once considered ‘just’ the wife of Rolling Stones frontman, Ronnie Wood. But today Jo is on a mission to be invisible no more. From Jo Wood Organics to aliens, don’t miss this insightful episode.

Key takeaways:
Finding the organic path
The impact her divorce had on her business
Finding the mental strength to do Strictly
The importance of pushing yourself
Curiosity around aliens and UFOs
The organic legacy she wants to leave behind