# How UK's youngest founders made it big Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-969727/how-uk-s-youngest-founders-made-it-big Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-969727/how-uk-s-youngest-founders-made-it-big.md Podcast: [The Business](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-969727) Published: 2026-04-17T05:30:00+00:00 Episode link: https://shows.acast.com/thepivot/episodes/how-uks-youngest-founders-made-it-big Audio file: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/acast/s/thepivot/e/69e11c2a23929c3a2ad5d38d/media.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-business-969727/episodes/how-uk-s-youngest-founders-made-it-big Duration seconds: 1817 ## Resource The Sunday Times Young Power List drops today: 30 of the nation’s most inspiring, influential people who are under the age of 30.  On this episode, we’re speaking to two members of the next generation of British business talent about taking a leap, building a company in your early twenties– and what it’s like to launch a venture in the UK today. Is age a barrier to forming a business? Is university degree a waste of time? And is a commitment to hustle culture imperative to making something of your outfit?  Read more:  The Young Power List 2026   Five successful entrepreneurs share how they made it without a degree  Presenter Hannah Prevett, associate business editor, Sunday Times  Guests: Harry Stebbings, founder, 20VC Amy Knight, founder, Must Have Ideas  Producer: Miriam Hall Executive Producer: Kate Ford Get in touch: thebusiness@thetimes.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-business-969727/episodes/how-uk-s-youngest-founders-made-it-big/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-business-969727/how-uk-s-youngest-founders-made-it-big.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.