Atom CTO Podcasts
Conversations with a range of business owners from across the globe that discuss the challenges, triumphs and failures that are faced when trying to build and grow a business.
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Make Yourself Human - Alfie Elliott Trailer (opens the original)
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Alfie Elliott is the Director of Select Group, a boutique recruitment business covering IT, business operations and consultancy across the UK and US. He started as a 16-year-old apprentice in East Croydon and has spent just under 15 years in the industry, working across financial services and consulting. He answers the five questions I ask everyone: What is your morning routine? What are you most proud of? What annoys you? What do you do to relax? What advice would you give to someone who's look
AI In Recruitment: How can you stand out? (opens the original)
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Alfie Elliott is the Director of Select Group, a boutique recruitment business covering IT, business operations and consultancy across the UK and US. Starting as a 16-year-old apprentice in East Croydon, Alfie has spent just under 15 years in the recruitment industry, working primarily across financial services and consulting. In this conversation, Bhairav and Alfie dig into what the UK job market really looks like right now, from graduates with first-class degrees struggling to find work throug
Pricing-for-Success-Mark-Peacock (opens the original)
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Mark Peacock, The Pricemaker, returns to the show, one of only a handful of guests to appear twice, to talk through his new book Pricing for Success. Most small and medium businesses default to whatever pricing method they inherited: hourly rates, project fees, or cost-plus margin. Mark makes the case that these are the weakest options available, and that a bit of structure and discipline around pricing is one of the simplest ways to become more profitable. Across the conversation, Bhairav and M
Start for Success with Jan Cavelle (replay) (opens the original)
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Jan Cavelle returns to the show, this time with her new book Start for Success, the prequel to Scale for Success. Where a lot of startup books are written by people who raised a billion dollars in Silicon Valley, Jan's is built from the honest, often raw stories of real founders, including the smaller and less glamorous ones whose journeys actually resemble most people's. Bhairav and Jan work through the full arc of starting a business: why people really do it, why you still have to make money e
RWE: What do you really need to worry about when starting a business? (opens the original)
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In this episode of Real World Entrepreneurship, Bhairav and Alan dig into a question every business owner wrestles with: what’s actually worth worrying about? Between cash flow, co-founders, market reception and the things you genuinely cannot see coming, it’s easy to spend energy in the wrong places. Alan and Bhairav talk through how they’ve each dealt with the unexpected over the years, including a deeply personal story from Alan about a cancer diagnosis that tested everything he believed abou
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