BOL - Business growth with a passion for life, food, making veg sexy and sustainable capitalism.

BOL is a disrupter brand in the food and drink marketplace, doing incredibly well with £25 million in business growth in retail sales this year. Still hungry for more, CEO Paul Brown has a passion for life, food and making veg sexy.

He sat down with CP's Head of New Business Relationships, Ben Eason, to talk all things purpose, risk, growth and sustainable capitalism.

They also reminisced about their university days. This lively chat is full of tasty conversation and can be heard in its entirety HERE. Here are the key topics you can jump to if you are short on time.

00.01 From Innocent to BOL today.

00.07 What is the vision for BOL?

10.32 Award-winning meat dishes to drop meat, fish and dairy. “Pivot” as a business term is overused. This is how you pivot.

14.26 How do you convince your investors that dropping your best sellers and cutting your revenue in half is a good idea for the future?

21.32 What is the CEO’s role when creating a culture?

25.40 How do you maintain culture through rapid growth?

29.01 Intergenerational diversity – Gen Z, millennials, are they harder to recruit and retain?

35.01 What’s the future of BOL?

39.16 Failure as a positive in business learning is overused. Failing sucks and costs you.

42.17 Is the CEO the ideas man, or do you have to listen to your team?

44.03 Through this journey, what business advice would you have given yourself 20 years ago?

Next up, we’ve got the latest edition of our HUB CP podcast with Suzanne Linton, CEO of tech agency Freestyle. She also scooped ‘Business Woman Of The Year at the latest Women Of The Year Awards.

We're talking culture, growth, performance and of course, disruption.

Meet Andrew Cotton. Surfing since the age of seven he knows all about the fine line between risk and recklessness.

Catching waves and being around the ocean has been his life. Andrew has firmly put Britain on the surfing map.

Andrew has made a lot of sacrifices to get to where he is today. Something he has in common with many entrepreneurial business owners. John Maffioli and Ben Eason of Hub CP sat down with Andrew to chew over the question ‘are entrepreneurs mavericks or artists of calculated risk?’.

Founding and then growing a successful business can require a certain amount of risk taking. Seizing opportunities can make all the difference. We wanted to explore Andrew’s attitude and how they align with entrepreneurs’ attitudes to risk, success and failure.