Andrew Cotter

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🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Andrew Cotter might have had one of the most successful Lockdowns of all time, using his award winning commentary skills to entertain the internet with the help of his Labrador’s Mabel and Olive. At 47 he’d had itchy feet, lockdown forced his creative comedic brain into overdrive and a new venture was born. Jim Hytner Global COO of IPG Mediabrands joins in to discuss how to get your ‘lockdown’ business idea off the ground.

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0:14.3	Hello and welcome to Midpoint. I'm so happy that my guest this week is a man who has brought so much joy to so many people since the start of COVID restrictions back in March. Andrew Cotta's day job is commentating on sport which he is brilliant at and I've worked with him for 12 years
0:18.2	on rugby athletics and a range of BBC sports shows. I always knew he was a dog man and at the start of
0:23.8	lockdown in March he combined his love of Mabel and Olive, his Labradors with his
0:28.1	talent as a commentator. The result has been phenomenal. Tens of thousands of downloads of his
0:34.4	amazing videos, a global book deal, interest from
0:37.8	Hollywood producers, there's even a musical that's been muted, and a
0:41.6	wonderful second career has been spawned. His colleagues
0:44.8	always knew he was darkly funny and now the world does too. So my expert to kind of
0:50.3	go alongside this is a global CEO Jim Heitner.
0:53.6	He's got top tips about starting a new business venture if you've had something burning
0:57.6	inside you over the last year or so that you're desperate to launch following Andrew's inspirational lead.
1:03.4	This episode comes to you thanks to Solgar, whose 70 year commitment to health and well
1:10.4	being has resulted in almost 300 different vitamins and minerals which
1:15.2	means we can all keep healthy through the cold winter months to come.
1:18.1	Come on then.
1:21.7	Hi, hi Oliver Mabel.
1:26.0	It's like having an audience with the Pope,
1:28.0	it's like having an audience with the Pope, look.
1:30.0	You see Emma's normally left by now,
1:32.0	but she's hanging around to see the real stars.
1:34.0	She's normally off doing her own idea.
1:36.0	I might have to get you to get them back at some point.
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