Sunak vs. Truss to appear on Jimmy’s Jobs - your questions please ...
⚽ Fantasy Football League
🥍 The next big professional sport - Lacrosse!?
🍸 Sally Wynter - launching a drinks brand
📚 Adrian Giles: Birmingham is not shit
🎉Live event - 5 tickets left
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Sunak vs. Truss on Jimmy’s Jobs - your help
There’s nowhere else to start, next Friday down in Eastbourne, we’ll be interviewing Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss about the biggest job of them all, Prime Minister.
It will be in front of almost 1,000 Conservative members, that is about 0.75% of the entire membership …
I would have thought that many of those attending will have a preferred candidate already. However, many of them will be waiting for that evening to make up their mind. We talked about the importance of great speeches in a recent addition of the notebook.
I believe this will be the tightest vote in Conservative membership history (Cameron and Johnson both won with about 2/3s of the total votes).
So the future of the country could well depend on that night in Eastbourne … well that’s what I am going to tell the grandkids any way.
The pair of them are facing dozens of questions a day at the moment, so I want your help in seeing if we can come up with something original to ask them.
They’ll want to set out their stalls, which they are getting better at doing, but it is my job to see if we can perhaps tease something a little bit different out, I’ll certainly write a big reflection post on this.
You can reply to this email … or drop a comment on our LinkedIn post here, which has already had some great engagement from Matt Clifford and Bindi Karia and Digby Vollrath.
⚽ Fantasy Football League
I love Fantasy Football, well I love it for the first six weeks of the season … but I am determined to give it another go this year and that’s where i would like to rope you in to sign up Jimmy’s Jobs league - you can do so via this link.
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Tips: Graham Ruddick who writes Off to Lunch newsletter is setting up a spin off newsletter just looking at fantasy football, so if you like the economics behind FPL it is worth checking out:
Also, a big shout out to Dan who goes by FPL Mate, who incredibly has gone full time on being an FPL tipster via YouTube, I find this kind of modern day creator job extraordinary and so inspiring.
At some point he is going to come on Jimmy’s Jobs, but it has all just gone a bit bonkers at my end with Conservative leadership, so we didn’t manage to get it sorted ahead of the season., but here’s a video with his latest team.
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🥍 The next big professional sport - Lacrosse?
Sticking on sports, I firmly believe that the business of sport is only going to become a bigger and bigger industry, in thh 21st Century.
This is due to some overall megatrends, people having more free time / ability to consume sports through social media / increase of nicheness.
These trends are going to create tens of thousands of new jobs over the next decade.
Therefore I was fascinated to read this piece from the team at Huddle Up, who dove deep into the economics of Lacrosse …
🍸 Sally Wynter - CBD Gin
If you know someone who is thinking of starting or scaling a drink or food business, they simply have to watch this interview with Sally Wynter who launched the UKs first CBD gin brand.
I have not had chance to market this episode yet, but we will be doing in the coming days:
📚 Other interesting reading
The great Oli Barrett has written a piece on how the new Prime Minister should engage with business … this is a topic I have a lot of thoughts on and will come back at some point. It is available on LinkedIn here.
Adrian Chiles has written a fabulous piece on Birmingham in The Times to coincide with the opening of the Commonwealth Games. In essence, Birmingham is not shit. Who knew?
Having attended University of Birmingham, I wholeheartedly endorse this message. Really looking forward to being there for party conference in October.
🎉Live event - 5 tickets left
We have released a few more tickets for our first ever live recording of Jimmy’s Jobs is here.
I originally planned to do this on what I thought was going to be a quiet week for the podcast and now it is probably going to be our biggest ever, funny how life works out.
Freddie Fforde is our speaker on Wednesday 3rd August hosted in Selkirk pub, Tooting, from 730, with the interview starting at 8.
Freddie’s company Patch is one of the most interesting companies in the future of work space, as he focuses on ‘decentralised workspace’.
You can read the piece on the fundraise in Techcrunch
The link to purchase is available here.
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