Angus Thirlwell, Co-Founder Hotel Chocolat

Can you imagine taking a chocolate tasting club with 100,000 members and turning it into a business which now turns over in the region of £136million and floated on AIM? Angus Thirlwell and his co-founder Peter Harris did just that.

If you've been watching Channel 5's recent series of Chocolate Unwrapped, you will have seen a snapshot into our guest. Here's the charming and approachable dynamo in the chocolate world, and has definitely flipped the coin to land well. Pretty much anyone in the UK chocolate industry would like to catch a sprinkle of his business fairy dust.

He is Angus Thirlwell, CEO, and co-founder with Peter Harris, of the iconic UK chocolate brand, Hotel Chocolat. From a chocolate tasting club with 100,000 members in the early 1990s, this effective duo have built up a business, which has a turnover of around 136 million and listed on AIM.

Join Angus and I for a chocolate adventure to hear his how's, why's and much more.

My book recommendation: The True History of Chocolate, Sophie D Coe & Michael D Coe
Angus’s book recommendation: Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
Chocolate: Going Nuts chocolate (Hotel Chocolat)
Quote: ‘Don't spend time beating on a wall, just transform it into a door.’