Richard Farleigh On The Entrepreneurial Exodus, The Hidden Agenda of The BBC, and How To Win In Business

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Rob Moore

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🗓️ 1 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:00.0	The UK is in an unhappy space.
0:02.5	What's going on?
0:03.1	The Labour Party are bull-t-and-they're just finding an excuse to put up taxes. Surely we've got to change this. Someone is lying. As a dragon on the den, how do you sell anything to anyone? So the first minute is crucial. Like, that is a huge mistake. Do never do that. Why did you leave? I was kicked off. Really? So the BBC,
0:26.6	cheeky. Business is kind of like a drug. It's like 120 or 130 business. So I think it became like a deal junkie. Money and success, it's a band-aid. It went through the care system. I've been a
0:30.8	victim of violence. I always had imposter syndrome, but my steak was worth 40 million.
0:34.6	Biggest mistake, young entrepreneurs make. I found one thing.
0:40.0	Richard, can you still make money in the UK with everything that's going on right now?
0:44.7	I think it's getting harder.
0:48.5	You know, I'm a bit almost depressed about the startup world in the UK to be blunt.
0:58.6	Starting a business now is difficult.
1:04.3	It's almost like it's polarized in the world. You've got the US and China. The US has obviously got what I call billionaire money and the China has got government money. And it's
1:09.7	almost like leaving China out for a moment. But if you go to lunch in the US and you've got a good idea in some tech business or anything that it's going to require money, you can do it over lunch. You know, there's billionaires with their network and their money. So, and they'll, you know, might write a check for 20 million. Let's just say a tech company or something and going to AI somewhere, you know, promising space. They'll write a check for 20 million let's just say a tech company or something and
1:27.9	going to AI somewhere you know promising space they'll write a check for 20 million over lunch
1:32.5	give or take you know and then off you go and they'll say don't worry about making a profit
1:36.7	you know just get market share just grab market share and I've termed this expression infinite
1:42.2	startups because they're startups, but they're infinite.
1:45.5	They don't have to worry about getting a profit.
1:47.6	So with this billionaire money looking for a market share, they go off.
1:52.2	In the UK, if you start exactly the same business and you're trying to raise five million, it's a nightmare.
1:59.9	I've had different companies and you can go through 100 meetings. And they want to see the business band, obviously, but they, you know, if you're not making profits within three or four years, they lose interest, then you're another round of funding. And as somebody who starts businesses, the valuation doesn't go up. So, you know, you hammered on that first five million. That's not a
2:17.7	pleasant experience. That's why people don't want to do the first one. Right. And you're also under
2:21.1	pressure to make, to make money. And so it's gotten worse and worse and worse. So, you know,
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