📣Final call for entries 📣
We are searching for the UK’s fastest-growing private companies for the annual #SundayTimes100 ranking.
Successful companies will be featured in June (and get to celebrate with other winners - and Richard and I - later in the year 🥂🕺)

Are there any SME owners in my network who have experienced a major cybersecurity issue in the last 12 months? (Particularly ransomeware) HMU 📥 #journorequest

I am so lucky to have Mondays off to be present for my girls. The rest of the week is full-on with the day job (which I love) and the occasional presenting gig on the side, plus my fav Times Radio slot with Lord Ed Vaizey on a Friday. Today we went to the beach and I drank her in ☀️♥️

🔴 Here's the LIVE feed for Elite Business Live Elite Business Live which I'm co-hosting all of Wednesday and Thursday with the fab Hannah Prevett 🎥 🎙

elitebusinessevent.co.uk

#EBL2024 🌎

Morning #London . Standing by for the first of two 8 hour webcasts for Elite Business Live with Oli Barrett and Hannah Prevett #EBL2024 #London LiveStreaming

Here’s to #IWD you don’t have to be a ‘trailblazer’, a ‘girl boss’, a ‘super woman’ etc etc - it’s about making what change and room you can in your corner of the world for the girls and women that follow 💜

One minute you’re hosting a room full of amazing women for #IWD , the next you’re on your way home to your amazing little women. 7yo asked to dress up as Frida Kahlo from her favourite book Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls Elena Favilli and I couldn’t be more proud 😍📚 #worldbookday

Such a privilege to hang out at the #brits last night, and to share the experience with my brilliant colleague (and all-round brilliant human) Katie Prescott

.Forbes asked me if 'crowdfunding can create more female angels.' The answer is yes: It *has* to be. With men 50x more likely to get funded by VCs, women need to activate other capital. I believe everyone can be an angel #BeMyAngel

Article: forbes.com/sites/trevorcl…

Our

Chancellor urged to reverse changes that clipped angels’ wings - The Times and The Sunday Times ⁦Hannah Prevett⁩ 🙏 ☑️to add your support to get this reversed as part of #Budget2024 pls read/sign/share our open letter📣📣 investHER.uk apple.news/ABCK-c03RTGKnL…

My interview with Digital Futures founder Scott Vincent for this weekend’s Sunday Times Business. In it he shares how a tumultuous adolescence following his father’s murder by the mafia spurred him on to make a success of his life. An incredible story thetimes.co.uk/article/df1a3c…

Rishi Sunak’s U-turns ‘are blocking electric vehicle sales’

Founder of electric vehicle charger company says the sector needs stability.

Hannah Prevett bit.ly/49zEtpH

Our startup ecosystem thrives on investment.

Changing investor rules will disqualify many angel investors and hurt growing British businesses. A reconsideration is needed.

That's why we call on entrepreneurs to sign our open letter to the Chancellor: angels-letter.com

Pleased to see The Times and The Sunday Times cover the pending legislative changes in the uk that will negatively impact money available to female founders & access to deals for female angels by Hannah Prevett. This is bad news for women, tech ecosystem & wider economy:

thetimes.co.uk/article/e6451e…

While having a bit of a rethink of my own relationship with alcohol, I noticed an increasing number of teetotallers in my network - taking it beyond #DryJanuary . For Times Business today: The sharp-minded entrepreneurs knocking the booze on the head
thetimes.co.uk/article/420665…

CMA ‘an aggressive chihuahua’ - ⁦⁦David Sacks⁩ “If you’re a start-up and you’re trying to consider where to put your Europe office, I would not choose the UK any more”. 🔗

thetimes.co.uk/article/e4280b…

'In the UK right now there is a lot of focus on diversity and inclusion... We also, in the same breath, need to talk about chronic disease,' said Phill Robinson, the inspiring founder of Boardwave & a trustee of Cure Parkinson's, in today's Times Business thetimes.co.uk/article/what-i…

I'll be switching from the Tempus column and taking over on the energy beat for The Times next year, while my colleague Emily Gosden is off on maternity leave. Any energy-related tips and pitches, send them my way

Good Morning, I'm looking for a case study of a UK-based Optometrist. Needs to be named and pictured today. Please get in touch asap. #ThankYou #journorequest

On Times Radio just after 8 with my pal Lord Ed Vaizey chatting about this week's How I Made It interview with restaurant entrepreneur Jamie Barber, why late payments are a headache for SMEs and a sneak preview of my forthcoming profile of Headspace CEO Russell Glass 🧘‍♀️📻