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Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Eyes on the Prize: How Ahmed Ejaz Pivoted from Politics to Eyewear

Jimmy's Jobs of the Future

Boxlight Creative Studio

Careers, Business, Technology

5.01K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Jimmy's Jobs, we chat with Ahmed, founder of Cambridge Spectacle Co. Ahmed's company is based in the West Midlands and gained notoriety after sponsoring the Parenting Hell podcast. He donates a portion of each sale to St. Paul's Blind Charity, and Cambridge Spectacle Co even has stock in Asda. Ahmed previously worked for West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, and he ran for parliament in the same constituency as our Jimmy’s dad. During the conversation, Ahmed shares insights into the transferable skills between politics and entrepreneurship. He's also created a TV ad for Cambridge Spectacle Co using Fiverr for just a few hundred pounds and has featured in ads for Fiverr featuring Bukayo Saka from Arsenal. Ahmed believes that brand coordinators are the future of jobs, and he's competing with big names like Gucci and Armani in the glasses space. Subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes, releasing every Wednesday. You can sign up to Jimmy's Substack here for weekly content on the future of work, technology, and politics For more information on partnering with us please visit our partnerships page here. Also make sure you subscribe to The Shift, you can find it here on Spotify or on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.3

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0:57.3

Welcome to Jimmy's Job to the Future. One of the best things about running this podcast

1:13.2

is that it's not that we just interviewed the big names like Rishi Sunak, Andrew Bailey

1:18.3

and Ben Francis of Gymshark. It's that we also get to put a profile spot on the next

1:23.3

generation coming through. And it was actually the last guest I mentioned there that inspired

1:29.0

today's guest, Ahmed, to strike out on his own and set up the Cambridge spectacle company.

1:35.1

He's based in Birmingham and that was partly why Ben's story inspired him to do this.

1:40.4

In addition, he worked in politics for Andy Street as his fundraising director, so been

1:45.4

a long-term listener to the show since then has enjoyed the mix of business and politics

1:51.1

that we do. Interestingly, I've first came across Ahmed on another podcast. You may

1:55.8

be aware of probably the UK's biggest podcast, which is Parenting Hell by Josh Ridicum and

2:01.3

Rob Beckett that got me through some of the times when I was a stay at home dad during

2:05.9

various lockdowns. He took an advert out on there. It is a really powerful and creative

2:12.0

ad that they've done and it demonstrates to me why I think the marketing space on podcasts

2:18.0

means that it's going to grow and grow over the next few years because it is a much more

2:23.4

genuine advertisement than so much of what you see on TV. Today is a bit of a full circle

2:29.2

moment as I understand how Gen Z refer to it for lots of different people. And it also

2:34.2

turns out that actually Ahmed and I have a connection that goes all the way back to before

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