This episode is in partnership with MrWeb’s Insight in the Mobile Age segment. My guest today is Giles Palmer, Founder and CEO of Brandwatch. Founded in 2007, Brandwatch is a global enterprise social intelligence company. It allows users to analyze and utilize conversations from across the social web. Brandwatch employs more than 500 people. Giles is also the Chairman of Futrli, an SMB focused software company. Prior to founding Brandwatch, Giles founded the Runtime Collective, a software company. And, he started his career in accounting. Find Giles Online: Website: https://www.overtheshoulder.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-mclean-9766842/ Find Jamin Online: Email: jamin@happymr.instawp.xyz LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil Find Us Online: Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp Website: www.happymr.com Music:“Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com [00:00:00] Jamin: Hi, everybody, I'm Jamin. You're listening to the Happy Market Research Podcast. My guest today is Giles Palmer, founder and CEO of Brandwatch. Founded in 2007, Brandwatch is a global enterprise social intelligence company. It allows users to analyze and utilize conversations from across the social web. Brandwatch employs more than 500 people. Giles is also the chairman of Futrli, an S&B-focused software company. Prior to founding Brandwatch, Giles founded the Runtime Collective, a software company, and he started his career in accounting. Giles, thank you so much for joining on the Happy Market Research Podcast today. [00:00:42] Giles: It's a pleasure to be here, Jamin. [00:00:43] Jamin: Let's start with a little bit of context. Tell us about your parents and how they informed what you're doing today. [00:00:51] Giles: Yeah, my parents were - well, my dad is no longer alive. My mom is. They were kind of a traditional stay-at-home mom, working dad family. My dad had a very high work ethic. He came from a working-class background. He was kind of a smart guy that did OK at school. And eventually got into quantity surveying. So, kind of geeky surveying. And joined a firm when he was, I think, 27. And retired from the same firm when he was 55. And he worked his way up to senior partner. So, he just kind of grounded out in the same industry for 30-odd years. And just worked really hard. And didn't put too much pressure on me and my sister to work hard when we were kids. In fact, I often asked him for advice,
This episode is in partnership with MrWeb’s Insight in the Mobile Age segment.
My guest today is Giles Palmer, Founder and CEO of Brandwatch.
Founded in 2007, Brandwatch is a global enterprise social intelligence company. It allows users to analyze and utilize conversations from across the social web. Brandwatch employs more than 500 people.
Giles is also the Chairman of Futrli, an SMB focused software company.
Prior to founding Brandwatch, Giles founded the Runtime Collective, a software company. And, he started his career in accounting.
Find Giles Online:
Website: https://www.overtheshoulder.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ross-mclean-9766842/
Find Jamin Online:
Email: jamin@happymr.instawp.xyz
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jaminbrazil
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jaminbrazil
Find Us Online:
Twitter: www.twitter.com/happymrxp
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/happymarketresearch
Facebook: www.facebook.com/happymrxp
Website: www.happymr.com
Music:“Clap Along” by Auditionauti: https://audionautix.com
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Jamin: Hi, everybody, I'm Jamin. You're listening to the Happy Market Research Podcast. My guest today is Giles Palmer, founder and CEO of Brandwatch. Founded in 2007, Brandwatch is a global enterprise social intelligence company. It allows users to analyze and utilize conversations from across the social web. Brandwatch employs more than 500 people. Giles is also the chairman of Futrli, an S&B-focused software company. Prior to founding Brandwatch, Giles founded the Runtime Collective, a software company, and he started his career in accounting. Giles, thank you so much for joining on the Happy Market Research Podcast today.
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Giles: It's a pleasure to be here, Jamin.
[00:00:43]
Jamin: Let's start with a little bit of context. Tell us about your parents and how they informed what you're doing today.
[00:00:51]
Giles: Yeah, my parents were - well, my dad is no longer alive. My mom is. They were kind of a traditional stay-at-home mom, working dad family. My dad had a very high work ethic. He came from a working-class background. He was kind of a smart guy that did OK at school. And eventually got into quantity surveying. So, kind of geeky surveying. And joined a firm when he was, I think, 27. And retired from the same firm when he was 55. And he worked his way up to senior partner. So, he just kind of grounded out in the same industry for 30-odd years. And just worked really hard. And didn't put too much pressure on me and my sister to work hard when we were kids. In fact, I often asked him for advice, and he was reluctant to give me any advice. He was kind of like, you've just got to figure it out for yourself, Giles. I went to a private school, I went to a good university. I read physics at University, I came out of that. I was bumped up a year at school, so I came out pretty young. And I was trying to figure out what I was going to do with my life. I had no idea about anything at that point. I was kind of 21. So, a little bit like studying law in the US, you can go into British grads often - certainly back then, in the early '90s, went into accountancy to get a kind of a general business grounding. So, I went and did that. I was really not very good at it. My heart wasn't in it. And then I kind of joined a few industries, I explored a few different industries. Didn't really get on with any of those. I was a geeky kid. I was into computer games and programming and stuff. And I kind of got - the Internet really didn't appear until I was in my late 20s. And when it did, I kind of - me and some friends started up a company, which we call Runtime Collective, building web applications for people. But in terms of my parents' influence on me, I think if I could take one thing out of that, it would be work ethic. I was kind of a lazy kid. I found schoolwork incredibly boring,