💥💥 Season 6 Launch 💥💥 PensionBee - Romi Savova - Transforming Lives and the Pension Industry

The brand new series of Jimmy's Jobs of the Future is here - and you're going to love it.

We're launching with one of the most inspiring UK entrepreneurial stories with Romi Savova from PensionBee.

In series 5 we talked to some of the biggest institutions in the UK, including the Bank of England and the next Prime Minister of the UK, Liz Truss.

In this series we are going back to our roots with a female founder who has taken a business from seed funding right through to IPO, transforming lives and the pension industry with it. 

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Once again thank you to our series partner Octopus Group, a collection of 8 entrepreneurially minded businesses that look to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.

In this episode, we talk with Romi about:

• Where did the name PensionBee come from? 
• The early stages of PensionBee- how she raised such a large seed round.
• The first hires Romi made and why this was always made with the ecosystem in mind.
• Her lifelong passion for pensions.
• Transforming lives with the biggest financial decisions of their life.
• Where has Romi made hires where she didn’t expect to?
• Transforming pension marketing.
• How Romi brings in the value of love into the workplace.
• The distinctive culture and how that attracts certain types of talent- but also may repel others.
• Taking her children to the listing on the London Stock Exchange.
• How did she deal with the pandemic?
• Adapting her own skillset.
• Changing from a big finance background to a solo entrepreneur- what skills did she learn and what did she leave behind? 
• The rise of ESG investing and why it is getting even more necessary.
• How the government can help entrepreneurial journeys- and why that means government stability.
• If she was starting now, what would’ve been the greatest help to the entrepreneurial ecosystem?
• Balancing children and taking a business from seed to IPO.
• What content does she find most inspiring?
• Pass the mic- Seen On Screen founder, Bonnie Lister Parsons. 

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