Session Recaps

ZAPPLY co-founder Jelte-Pier Slump and Augmentum Media co-founder Sambhav Chadha on building influencer into a brand's main acquisition channel: finding creators at scale, vetting for trust, owning a niche, structuring deals around whitelisting, and running the whole thing as a five-part engine.

Two Venice operators on building an in-house content engine: Kasper Brandi Petersen (LABFRESH) on making 2,000+ videos a year with no agency or influencer fees, and Ash Read on where SEO is heading as buyers start asking AI to shortlist brands.

Tom Gozney built Gozney from a £5,000 loan and a homemade garden oven into a ~$100M live-fire cooking brand. In this Venice AMA he breaks down brand-building over revenue-chasing, scarcity and drop culture and distribution discipline.

True Classic President Adam Eisenstadt on taking the brand from a $40M COVID launch to ~$280M - the international playbook: go broad to learn, run a country-by-country P&L, and keep operations simple.

George Sanderson (Honest Dog Co.) and Ollie Groombridge (8hours) walk through the dashboards and agents already running in their businesses — built in hours, costing hundreds, not thousands.

Angus Thirlwell, Founder & Global CEO of Hotel Chocolat, on three decades of building a cacao-first brand - from corporate peppermints in 1993 to a £200m+ premium chocolate business now part of Mars. He walks Venice members through the chocolate bond that funded the Saint Lucia farm, the discipline of being a price maker not a follower, and the wake-up call that drove him to bring Hotel Chocolat into Mars in 2024.

Akos Piffko shares his approach to helping Glow25 build an AI-native team.

Harry shares how Matrix is using AI and custom GPTs to streamline workflows.

The former Rituals CMO shares his advice.

SNOAP Managing Director Antony Hicks shares what it's like to appear on Dragons' Den.

A recap of our first Drop In session with SEO expert Kevin Indig.