Startup Secrets

I'm In! This week we have Piers Linney, most known from BBC's Dragons Den & The Secret Millionaire. Entrepreneur, Investor, Adviser, Speaker and Creator of the #StartUp#ScaleUp course, it's fair to say Piers Linney has had his fair share of business experience and adventures! Born in Stoke-on-Trent, Piers grew up in a former mill town in Lancashire where he attended the local comprehensive school. His mother is from the Parish of St. Philip in Barbados and came to the UK in the early 1960s and spent her career working for the NHS before retiring and starting her own business. His father is from working class Manchester and was one of the first to earn an academic scholarship to attend Cambridge University in the 1950s. The host Seb also shares a similar upbringing in Leeds and in this episode they talk upon the current BLM movement and diversity and inclusion within entreupenurship and workplace culture. Piers is often referred to as an entrepreneur and a TV personality following his appearances as an inv