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Explore the journeys of today’s most inspiring tech founders on The Engine – Founders Stories, hosted by Donna Owen, founder and fractional GTM leader at The Engine. Discover how visionary entrepreneurs overcame the “founder-led sales” trap to build predictable, scalable revenue engines - and learn how you can do the same for your business.Join Donna as she sits down with C-suite executives, startup pioneers and growth architects behind groundbreaking SaaS and fintech ventures. Each episode unpacks real-world challenges - from recruiting your first sales team to implementing cost-effective tech stacks - and shares the proven tactics that turned early-stage startups into market leaders.Whether you’re a founder ready to scale, a sales leader seeking fresh playbooks, or a startup advisor looking for actionable case studies, The Engine – Founders Stories delivers the insightful conversations and tangible outcomes you need. Subscribe now on your favorite podcast platform to join the revenue revolution of the future, today.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
47 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
31 episodes
since May 21, 2025
episodic
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In this Founder Stories episode, Guy Walker (CEO of Talentia Group) discusses why he’s invited onto many podcasts, what topics he avoids, and his wide portfolio of startups and investments alongside his core education and public sector recruitment business. He explains how he manages time through s…
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In this Founder Stories episode, Tessa Clarke, co-founder and CEO of OLIO, explains how her farm upbringing and a moving-day experience sparked the idea for a hyper-local app that helps neighbors give away surplus food and household items. She shares key facts about food waste - one third of food g…
In this episode, the host speaks with Dominic McGregor, founder of Fearless Adventures, about what he’s building now and the experiences that shaped him. Dominic explains Fearless as an investment-and-support business that helps founders scale through three areas: people (via an academy and talent …
How do you turn a shared passion for sport into a rapidly scaling business that reaches thousands of children every week?
In this episode of Founder Stories, Donna Owen sits down with Asher Smith and Jack Pearce, the co-founders of The Athlete Group. From their early days as teenage sports coaches …
In this episode of Founder Stories, Joel Harrison discusses launching B2B Marketing in 2004 to fill a gap in the marketing media that largely ignored business-to-business marketing, and how the company helped shape an ecosystem where agencies and marketers now identify as B2B. He explains the evolu…
Is AI the "silver bullet" for your business, or is it just creating more noise?In this episode of Founder Stories, Donna Owen sits down with her close friend and serial entrepreneur Andy Hallett. With a career spanning recruitment, technology, and executive coaching, Andy cuts through the…
Is the story you’re telling yourself about your business actually a prophecy for its failure?
In this episode of Founder Stories, Donna Owen sits down with George Terry, Co-Founder & Creative Director at Winbox. George pulls back the curtain on the psychological "mental game" of being…
How do you go from dropping out of school at 17 to building, scaling, and selling a massive B2B software company? In this episode of Founder Stories, Donna Owen sits down with Ed Johnson—the "original influencer" before the word even existed.Ed shares the raw, unfiltered truth about his e…
How does a "rebellious" student who failed his A-Levels go on to build a 25-person agency by age 22 and later launch a market-defining AI company? In this episode of Founder Stories, Donna Owen sits down with Leo Rogers, the founder of Curvo.Leo shares his unconventional journey from fixi…
What happens when you go from being a well-known industry leader in your home country to a total stranger in a new one?In this episode of Founder Stories, Donna Owen sits down with Paul Ryazanov, the founder of MageCloud. Paul’s journey is a masterclass in resilience, moving from a childhood in the…
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