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How can you keep your entrepreneurial fire burning? In this episode, Julia Hoggett, CEO the London Stock Exchange joins Rishi Khosla, CEO and co-founder of OakNorth to discuss his career journey, from building a data and analytics company to OakNorth, a UK bank for scaling businesses. Rishi also delves into the value that growth companies bring, how he has maintained his entrepreneurial drive and measuring OakNorth’s impact.

How do you build culture while scaling a fast-growing business, and what potential does this unlock? In this episode of the Be Inspired series, Julia Hoggett, CEO the London Stock Exchange talks to Matthew Scullion, CEO of Matillion tells us how the company grew to its current size, how they identified this gap in data engineering that Matillion now solves and the advantages of establishing company values early on. Matthew also discusses why he is so passionate about CMIT and creating the perfect playbook for UK capital markets.

How should you approach funding to kickstart your company’s success? In this episode of the Be Inspired series, Oluwaseyi Sosanya, CEO & Founder, Gravity Sketch gives advice to founders fundraising for the first time and discusses how they successfully closed a series A funding round as well as his experience setting up business in the UK as an American CEO.

In this episode, Julia Hoggett, CEO of the London Stock Exchange, interviews Paragraf’s CEO Dr Simon Thomas and visits one of their labs to see in person how the future of microchip technology is being developed. Simon explains how their graphene-based electronic devices could advance technology and open up emerging markets, as well as discussing Paragraf’s journey towards commercialisation and his long-term vision for the company.

What are the benefits and risks involved with stepping into the US market? In this episode of the Be Inspired series, Jay Patel, General Manager at Cisco and former CEO at IMImobile answers this question and talks about the company’s journey from IPO to acquisition. Jay also explains how IMImobile pivoted alongside the changing technology market and the actions he took after listing on the London Stock Exchange to further grow the company.

Founded 25 years ago, Eurowag, a pan-European integrated payments and mobility platform, is a great example of a resilient business. But how did they achieve this and how did going public help the business prosper? In this episode of the Be Inspired series, Martin Vohánka, CEO & Founder of Eurowag joins us to answer these questions and delves into his experience running the business as both a private and public company.