The Cabbage King – A fourth generation innovation story
The latest Family Capital Podcast with Matthew Gwyther comes from a cabbage field in the middle of Lincolnshire.
The World – A Family History – Simon Sebag Montefiore
Welcome to Family Capital's Podcast Series - an occasional series of interviews with some of the most…
Two of the world’s greatest family business dynasties fight it out in the luxury car world
John Lennon had a yellow one. Sylvester Stallone had one but sold it on eBay.
The clash between family-owned supermarket chains and private equity funds
Supermarket chains all began as family businesses, but private equity has come calling for two of Britain’s…
The UK: The Sick Man of Europe and the demise of family businesses
In 1920 the Economist JM Keynes wrote about the last days of La Belle Epoque, a war-free period of unprecedented…
The Browders – Communism, Capitalism…and Silicon Valley
Welcome to Family Capital's Podcast Series - an occasional series of interviews with some of the most…
Family Entrepreneurship – The Flints
Welcome to Family Capital's Podcast Series - an occasional series of interviews with some of the most…
Employee skin in the family business game
How does a family business keep skin in the game when no members of the younger generations are able…
Meritocracy, family enterprises, and “the lucky sperm club”
Are you a member of “the lucky sperm club,” as Warren Buffet termed those who are the children of…
More top minds are questioning meritocracy. Is it on the way out?
Which of the following factors has been the most beneficial to your career?
Meritocracy is under threat, but is that such a bad thing?
As an ideology meritocracy is taking quite a beating at the moment.
The utopian/dystopian problem for Big Tech billionaires
What makes tech billionaires different - they are convinced they can run the world, universe, everything.
Billionaires need a better story…if they’re to stave off the hordes
Last week the BBC hosted a daytime TV discussion on the subject of the super-rich and what they might…