The Gstaad Guy Podcast

The Gstaad Guy Podcast is your backstage pass to the untold stories behind excellence. Hosted by The Gstaad Guy, out of character, this guest driven, unscripted series explores the real journeys, challenges and turning points that shape those who have mastered their craft. From global tastemakers and industry leaders to creative pioneers and cultural outliers, each episode reveals what it really takes to achieve excellence. Through humour and curiosity, The Gstaad Guy peels back the layers to uncover the grit behind the glamour, offering listeners a rare glimpse into the worlds usually kept behind closed doors. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gstaadguypodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gstaadguypodcast

The Gstaad Guy Podcast is a business podcast hosted by The Gstaad Guy, with 65 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Founder & Chairman of Cookson Adventures: Henry Cookson – Polar Records, Real Wealth, & the Legacy Question

  Aug 18, 20261h 17m

  The Gstaad Guy sits down with Henry Cookson, the polar record holder turned founder of Cookson Adventures, to explore what actually constitutes a life well spent. Henry left a prime brokerage desk at Goldman Sachs with no cold weather experience, entered a race to the magnetic North Pole against Arctic warfare instructors and Everest veterans, and won it. He went on to lead the first team in history to reach the Southern Pole of Inaccessibility using human power alone, and built a company designing frontier expeditions for people with the means to fund science while they travel. The conversation moves from the trading floor on 11 September to the statue of Lenin at the centre of Antarctica, from lion collars and the discovery of an unknown species of orca to a hard look at greenwashing and the kind of company money attracts. Henry argues that being a rich guy is no longer a legacy because someone bigger always follows, explains why he deliberately got out of the elevator on the third floor, and makes the case that a crappy fishing boat with people you like beats a 150 metre yacht with people you do not. He is equally direct on the commercial side, describing why bespoke travel is a terrible business model and why he turned down a family who had sent the same five year brief to three of his competitors. Filmed at The Badrutt’s Palace Hotel in St. Moritz. (00:00) Intro ✨️ (01:07) Discovering An Unknown Species Of Orca (02:47) Goldman Sachs, Kenya And The 9/11 Trading Floor (06:25) An Overweight Banker Wins A Polar Race ️❄️ (09:02) The Pole Of Inaccessibility And The Statue Of Lenin (17:08) The Anticlimax After The Record (18:55) Prince Harry, Sycophancy And The First Big Break (20:26) Funding Lion Collars & The Birth Of A Model (26:14) Greenwashing & The Friends Money Attracts (31:35) Losing Local Culture To Globalised Luxury (33:40) True Nourishment (39:49) Advertising, Rolex Scarcity And 72% Of Wildlife Gone ⌚ (42:18) Being Rich Is No Longer A Legacy (53:20) Why Bespoke Travel Is A Terrible Business Model ✈️ (58:58) How A Frontier Trip Gets Designed ️ (1:03:41) À La Poubelle vs. Fantastique ️✨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  IM8 Co-Founder & CEO: Danny Yeung – Serial Entrepreneurship, David Beckham, & Building the World's Most Complete Daily Essential

  Aug 12, 202659 min

  The Gstaad Guy sits down with Danny Yeung, co-founder and CEO of IM8 and one of Asia's most accomplished serial entrepreneurs, to explore what it truly means to identify a gap in human health and build a best-in-class product to fill it. From founding Prenetics to partnering with David Beckham, Danny reflects on a career defined by hands-on execution, an instinct for opportunity, and the conviction that most people are massively underinvesting in their own foundation of health. The conversation gets into what longevity really means beyond the buzzword, why the word supplement fails to capture what IM8 is actually trying to do, and how AI is beginning to reshape what is possible in personalised medicine and healthcare innovation. Danny speaks candidly about the realities of running a public company, what it takes to build teams that can move at the speed of a founder, and why being AI native is no longer a competitive advantage but a baseline requirement. Direct, driven, and refreshingly unpretentious about the business of health, it is a conversation about building with purpose and why your daily non-negotiables might matter more than anything else you do. Filmed at Casa Cipriani New York's Premier River View Suite. Explore IM8 with 10% off your first order: https://www.im8health.com/GSTAAD10 (Or Use Code: GSTAAD10) Chapters: (00:00 Intro ✨️ (00:58) IM8 (02:24) Embarking On A Journey ️✨ (03:09) Background (04:38) Being A Serial Entrepreneur (05:35) Starting Prenetics (09:59) Meeting David Beckham ⚽ (12:28) Friendship Turn Partnership ❤️ (14:50) The Word "Supplement" (16:24) What Does "IM8" Stand For? (17:40) The Topic Of "Longevity" ⏳ (24:58) Easy Steps Towards A Healthier Life ✅ (26:50) Health Non-Negotiables (27:52) IM8 Positioning (31:27) Pros & Cons Of A Public Company ⚖️ (35:24) Building Robust Teams (38:36) AI Agents ⚡ (42:03) AI Positively Impacting Medicine ❤️ (44:20) DNA (46:55) The Future (51:37) À La Poubelle vs. Fantastique ️✨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Design Historians, Authors & Curators: Charlotte & Peter Fiell – Collecting, Watches, Taschen & Why Everything Is Designed

  Aug 4, 20261h 6m

  The Gstaad Guy sits down with Charlotte and Peter Fiell, the design historians, authors and curators behind Taschen's Ultimate Collector series, to explore what separates objects that endure from objects that end up as decoration. Across 35 years and a body of work that includes 1000 Chairs and an 11 kilo, 200,000 word volume on watches, the Fiells reflect on a career spent among the world's greatest collections, and on a publishing brief that has never changed: create the best book there has ever been on the subject. The conversation moves from the psychology of collecting and the specific neurotype the Fiells keep encountering among serious collectors, to the quartz crisis that nearly ended Swiss watchmaking and instead gave rise to the independents. They argue that design began 2.3 million years ago rather than at the Bauhaus, that constraints make designers better rather than smaller, and that the value of an object lies in the quality of its connections. Charlotte also recounts the moment ChatGPT invented an entire book for her doctoral research, complete with author and ISBN, making the case for scholarship, editorial rigour and physical things in an age spent almost entirely on screen. Filmed at the TASCHEN London bookstore. (00:00) Intro ✨️ (04:26) The Phone Call From Benedikt Taschen ✨ (07:21) Why These Are Not Coffee Table Books (10:01) What The World's Top Collectors Have In Common (16:10) The Neurotype Behind The Urge To Collect (22:53) Design Began 2.3 Million Years Ago ⏳ (24:25) A Thousand Chairs And A Unified Theory Of Design (31:11) Constraints, And Where Design Ends And Art Begins ⚖️ (37:50) Nobody Actually Needs A Mechanical Watch ⌚ (39:52) Feeling The Soul Of The Watchmaker ⌚❤️ (46:32) The Quartz Crisis That Remade Swiss Watchmaking ⚡ (50:23) Why Physical Things Ground Us In A Digital Age (53:10) Why Only One Publisher Can Make Books Like This (56:26) When ChatGPT Invented A Book That Did Not Exist (58:58) À La Poubelle vs. Fantastique ️✨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Eight Sleep Co-Founder & CEO: Matteo Franceschetti – Sleep Optimisation, Billion Hours of Data, & Why Recovery Is the Last Frontier of Human Performance

  Jul 28, 20261h 18m

  The Gstaad Guy sits down with Matteo Franceschetti, co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, the company that has quietly become one of the most powerful sleep labs in the world, to explore what happens when Silicon Valley obsession meets the most underinvested area of human health. From his early days as a fitness-obsessed entrepreneur to building a medical-grade platform trusted by everyone from elite athletes to Formula One drivers, Matteo reflects on the vision, data, and relentless focus on performance that made Eight Sleep impossible to ignore. The conversation gets into the science of temperature cycles, what a billion hours of sleep data can actually tell you about human behaviour, and why AI is turning what was once a passive nightly ritual into an active tool for recovery and longevity. Matteo speaks candidly about the pace of technological change, what it means to build and live with your life partner, and why hospitality's next great shift will be towards wellness rather than aesthetics. Forward-thinking, data-driven, and genuinely revelatory, it is a conversation about optimisation, ambition, and why the most productive thing you can do is sleep better. Filmed at Faena Miami Beach, Premier Oceanfront Corner Suite. Explore Eight Sleep and get up to $350 off your first order: https://www.eightsleep.com/gstaadguy (code: GSTAAD350) Chapters: (00:00) Intro ✨️ (02:13) Background (04:19) Becoming An Entrepreneur (05:32) Silicon Valley (06:01) Bringing Technology To Sleep ️ (08:10) The First Product ️✨ (09:28) Temperature Cycles For Perfect Sleep ️ (12:27) Evolution Of Eight Sleep ️ (17:09) Mass Data (19:21) Discovering Sleep Patterns (21:40) Consistency ⏰ (23:53) Offices Around The World (26:26) What AI Can Do (29:11) How Preventative Can Sleep Technology Be? ️ (34:40) Brand Positioning (37:52) Charles Leclerc ️ (39:48) Working With Your Life Partner ❤️ (45:00) The Pace Of AI ⚡ (50:21) AI Exceeding Human Output (53:04) Becoming A Generalist (55:58) Being AI Native ✨ (59:08) The Eight Sleep Community (1:01:39) Status & Substance ⚖️ (1:06:26) Price Per Sleep (1:07:52) Hospitality Should Become Wellness First (1:11:59) À La Poubelle vs. Fantastique ️✨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Jaded London Co-Founders: Jade & Grant Goulden – Disruption, the London Look, & Building a Fashion Brand Without a Business Plan

  Jul 21, 20261h 14m

  The Gstaad Guy sits down with Jade and Grant Goulden, the siblings behind Jaded London, the boundary-pushing fashion brand that has built a devoted global following by moving at the speed of culture and refusing to wait for permission, to explore what it truly means to turn instinct into a business. From running operations on WhatsApp to personally delivering clothes to Kylie Jenner, theirs is a story of agility, nerve, and an unwavering focus on product above everything else. The conversation gets into what it means to identify a trend before it has a name, why trust between co-founders who are also family is both the greatest asset and the greatest test, and how the distinctly London approach to style became the brand's most powerful currency. Jade and Grant speak candidly about hiring the customer, the discipline of doing things differently when the industry pulls towards convention, and why moving fast without a plan is only reckless if you do not know what you stand for. Energetic, unpretentious, and sharply observed, it is a conversation about boldness, timing, and what happens when two people back each other completely. Filmed at The Twenty Two (London), Gingko Suite. (00:00) Intro ✨️ (02:03) Marketing At The Speed Of Culture ⚡ (02:38) Awareness Of Culture ️ (04:25) One Unified Team (07:39) From Idea To Product (09:21) Starting A Fashion Brand (18:04) The "London Look" (21:48) "Hiring The Customer" ️ (25:06) The Jaded Woman & Man (27:39) Family Business ‍‍‍ (29:18) Working With A Sibling ❤️ (36:50) Designing The "Parachute Pant" ✨ (39:14) Personally Delivering Clothes to Kylie Jenner (41:21) "We Didn't Have A Business Plan" (43:10) Agility & Hustle ⚡ (48:48) Collaborations & Influencer Marketing (55:00) Fashion Trends (58:37) Stepping Into The Fashion World (1:03:03) Doing Things Differently ✨ (1:06:15) À La Poubelle vs. Fantastique ️✨ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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