S12 Ep10: Tom Gozney: Designer, Entrepreneur and Founder of Gozney Wood Fired Ovens
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Surprise! We are back with another BONUS episode for you!
My guest today is Tom Gozney.
Tom is an entrepreneur and designer, he is the founder of Gozney. Gozney for those who don’t know, make incredible outdoor ovens and the business really is taking the world by storm.
Tom started out designing a brick pizza oven for his back garden in 2008, and by 2014 was supplying professional ovens to some of the UK’s leading restaurants including Chewton Glen, River Cottage and pizza chain Franco Manca. But his domestic ovens have also collected a loyal following of very famous fans including Tom Aikens, Paul Hollywood, the founder of Instagram, Mike Krieger, and Richard Branson – who flew Tom out to his personal island: Necker Island to build one.
Tom had in his own words, a “colourful youth” and might not necessarily be the stereotypical entrepreneur. He moved from school to school after being expelled and was constantly told he would amount to nothing. After battling with alcohol and drug addiction, he used his passion for food to turn his life around and proved all his teachers wrong. Despite not really being one for material possessions, by the age of 29 he was able to fulfil one of his dreams and to buy himself his dream car - a Lamborghini. Not too shabby for someone teachers told just a few years earlier was on a road to nowhere.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. |
| 0:06.7 | This is the podcast where every week I ask my guests to choose their seven Desert Island |
| 0:11.5 | dishes. |
| 0:12.8 | These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best |
| 0:17.2 | dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before |
| 0:22.3 | being cast off to the Desert Island. Surprise. I hope you're all well and that you're having a |
| 0:29.0 | lovely week. I have another bonus episode for you this week with a very inspirational entrepreneur |
| 0:35.2 | with a story that can't fail to inspire you. I love hearing the stories |
| 0:41.2 | of how our guests get to where they are today. It's so easy to look at the success and the final |
| 0:47.2 | product and assume that it was plain sailing, but we just don't live in an Instagram filter |
| 0:52.9 | and the reality of people's journeys is so interesting. |
| 0:56.7 | So I really hope you enjoy today's episode. |
| 1:01.7 | My guest today is Tom Gosney. |
| 1:04.5 | Tom is an entrepreneur and designer. |
| 1:06.8 | He is the founder of Gosney. |
| 1:08.6 | Gosney, for those who don't know, make incredible outdoor ovens, |
| 1:11.9 | and the business really is taking the world by storm. |
| 1:15.0 | Tom started out designing a brick pizza oven for his back garden in 2008, |
| 1:19.4 | and by 2014, was supplying professional ovens to some of the UK's leading restaurants, |
| 1:24.1 | including Chuton Glen, River Cottage, and the pizza chain, Franco Manca. His domestic ovens have |
| 1:29.8 | also collected a loyal following of very famous fans, including Tom Aitken's Paul Hollywood, |
| 1:35.5 | the founder of Instagram, Mike Krieger, and Richard Branson, who flew Tom out to his personal |
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