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You're Dead to Me. We're the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Also from the BBC

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Hi there, thanks for listening to The Bottom Line, the Business Conversation podcast here and

on Radio 4. Before we get to today's episode, quick plug for last year's Q&A, which was a business

clinic, where we answered questions on how to invest money and how to ensure your business idea

isn't stolen. But now, on to

today's discussion, we've had a good run this winter, and we thought we'd finish it by celebrating

entrepreneurs. So we're back for a second year with a Q&A episode, and we're focusing the Q's

and A's on entrepreneurship. Now, if you're a regular listener, you will have heard us

touting for questions. Thank you to those who submitted one. And so now it's time to get some

answers. And we have three top entrepreneurial guests to provide some answers and discussion

points. First guest, Trinney Woodall, who's an entrepreneur, founder of the cosmetics brand Trinney London.

But you started in TV, Trinney, then went into business. What was the motivation for that career pivot?

I started actually trading commodities. That was my first job because I thought I should be in business and my dad was a banker. I hated it. I had the FT on the outside of the tube and the Daily Mail inside. I was a fraud from the start, but I was me and 58 men on a trading floor. Didn't love it. And then I found my way to something I enjoyed doing as a pastime, which is making over my girlfriends, and I made it my career. And so I, you know,

I started a column in the telegraph. And then I did start a business in 99, a D to C business,

but it was before e-com. And it was just a platform. Direct to consumer before e-commerce.

Yeah. Before there was commerce online, I wanted to have, you know, I loved this concept that you could take people from all over the world to one place and give them lots of information.

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