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Hosted by Alan Smith · business · EN-GB
A podcast for entrepreneurs – reverse engineering the formula for successful scale, sale and exit. Inspired conversations with world-class entrepreneurs and the specialists who support them.
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Booking probability
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Guest openness
Selective
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Signup to Generate a PitchA podcast for entrepreneurs, reverse engineering the formula for successful scale, sale and exit. Inspired conversations with world-class entrepreneurs and the specialists who support them.
Bulletproof Entrepreneur is hosted by Alan Smith. The show has published 97 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "#95 Mark Rhodes: The Case for the Strategic Accountant Every SME Founder Wishes They Had" (17 September 2026, 69 minutes), "#94 Nigel Shanahan: The 20-Year Journey From IBM Salesman to a £50M Tech Exit" (6 August 2026, 68 minutes), and "#93 From the vault: Scaling to a £100m ARR business and successfully exiting with Mark Mills" (24 July 2026, 63 minutes).
Bulletproof Entrepreneur publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 72 minutes across 97 episodes.
Booking probability for Bulletproof Entrepreneur is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Bulletproof Entrepreneur requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Bulletproof Entrepreneur's contact route on record: public web form.
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Alan Smith hosts Bulletproof Entrepreneur, a business podcast with 97 episodes published.
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Episode #95
Send us Fan Mail Mark started his career at Ernst & Young writing transaction reports for corporates being sold, then walked away from big-business M&A to work with his dad in the family accountancy practice, the one...
Episode #94
Send us Fan Mail Nigel Shanahan started his working life as a chartered accountancy trainee who "failed miserably", found his feet as an IBM salesman for 12 years, then left with a colleague and £250,000 of business...
Episode #93
Send us Fan Mail Mark Mills started buying and selling at school — literally, with bags of broken biscuits from the biscuit factory where his aunt worked. Three decades and five businesses later, after a £20,000 debt...
Episode #92
Send us Fan Mail Niraj was 30, healthy and getting ready for work when a stroke put him on the bathroom floor and eventually into the stroke unit at St Mary's Hospital in London. Fifteen years on, he has built five...
Episode #91
Send us Fan Mail Sam Smith spent 24 years building FinCap from a single desk and a phone into a London-listed investment bank, becoming one of the few women to lead a public financial business in the UK. She bet on...
Episode #90
Send us Fan Mail Martin Lightbody turned a fourth-generation Scottish bakery into the number one celebration-cake supplier to the UK supermarkets, scaling from 50 staff to 1,200 and £60 to 70 million in turnover. Then...
Episode #89
Send us Fan Mail James Ashford sold GoProposal to Sage for an eight-figure sum. People hear that and picture a clean line from idea to payday. It took him two decades, several businesses that died along the way, and one...
Episode #88
Send us Fan Mail Nick Bradley has sat on the other side of the table for more than 50 acquisitions and 27 exits. He knows exactly how private equity firms assess a business, where founders give away their leverage, and...
Episode #87
Send us Fan Mail Anton arrived in the UK with £500 in his pocket. Years later, he founded WealthOS. He recently sold it to one of the world's largest banks. In this episode, Alan sits down with the founder of WealthOS...
Episode #86
Send us Fan Mail Darya Simanovich arrived in London 20 years ago with £300, no contacts, and barely any English. Today she runs two businesses, holds a full-time role supporting small business owners across London...
Episode #85
Send us Fan Mail Ian has spent 45 years in the music industry, managing Simply Red, Simple Minds, The Pretenders, and Suede. He started at 17 with a boot full of vinyl and a two-litre Cortina, driving 1,200 miles a week...
Episode #84
Send us Fan Mail Neil Osmond never set out to be an entrepreneur. He was a pharma executive with a steady job, a young family, and no savings when a friend showed him something on a computer that he couldn't stop...
Episode #83
Send us Fan Mail He survived a bomb at four years old. Lost everything in his thirties. Then built a group of companies employing nearly 100 people and sold his media business for 32 x EBITDA. I sat down with...
Episode #82
Send us Fan Mail Scott Ellam started with a £13,000 basic salary, cold-called his way into closing a company acquisition at 22, and then built a thriving international executive search firm from his kitchen in 2014...
Episode #81
Send us Fan Mail Episode Overview Rachel Murphy sold her company during lockdown. While building the national COVID-19 digital service. Without ever meeting the buyers in person. This conversation is equal parts...
Episode #80
Send us Fan Mail The Autumn Budget landed last week - and while the headlines were busy talking about ‘black holes,’ and ‘fairness,’ the fine print tells a very different story. Nimesh Shah, The CEO of leading tax...
Episode #79
Send us Fan Mail What if your business isn’t worth what you think it is? What if it’s less than you think? What is it’s more? Here’s the uncomfortable truth: most owner-managed businesses never sell. Not because the...
Episode #78
Send us Fan Mail Today on The Bulletproof Entrepreneur, you’re going to hear from a man whose story is almost impossible to compress into a single sentence - because it’s part grit, part luck, part audacity… and...
Episode #77
Send us Fan Mail Today on The Bulletproof Entrepreneur, I’m joined by Brian Hill — ex-soldier, endurance athlete, entrepreneur, and the founder of a business called Pathfinders. Brian’s also just published a fantastic...
Episode #76
Send us Fan Mail My guest today is someone whose story is nothing short of remarkable. From a tough upbringing on a council estate in Oxford to building one of the UK’s most disruptive property management companies...
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