Dinner with Grace Beverley: Building An Empire Before 30

Owning a business is no easy task. But imagine running four successful businesses before the age of 30. 

Grace Beverley is the 28-year old entrepreneur, podcaster and social media star behind a multi-million pound empire. 

Since building fitness app Shreddy as a student at Oxford, Grace has gone on to launch and scale activewear brand TALA - raising more than £5mn in funding in the process. 

Basically, she knows what it takes to build brands that actually matter! 

Now she’s shaking up the creator economy with Retrograde, an AI-powered talent agent that’s revolutionising brand deals.

Join us for an intimate dinner with Grace in Lisbon as we dive into:

✅  Balancing career ambition with a busy personal life

✅  The fight to close the gender funding gap, and why it matters

✅  Why she’s pulled back from being an influencer despite her huge reach

✅  And her social content strategy for upcoming creators

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Timestamps:

00:00 Trailer

01:15 Intro

04:55 Building Retrograde: The AI Talent Agent

11:56 Balancing Life With Four Businesses

16:05 VC Funding: The Motherhood Penalty

18:24 Gender Funding Gap: How Do We Fix It

22:47 VC Blind Spot: Female Entrepreneurs Outperform Men

31:35 The Media Gap: Female Entrepreneurs Are Overlooked

34:54 Why Grace Pulled Back From Being An Influencer

41:23 Social Following Doesn't Equal More Revenue

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Welcome to the Lock-In - a podcast where we lock the doors of our favourite pub to bring you an unfiltered chat with some of the world’s top E-Commerce Founders. Each episode our hosts Jack, Jamie, Joe and Dan sit down with some of the biggest and best minds in entrepreneurship - pulling back the curtain to share the stories, playbooks and mistakes they’ve experienced while building 8 & 9 figure brands.

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