The Gentleman‘s Journal Podcast

GJ LIVE: A guide to alternative investments

This talk will serve as a comprehensive guide to alternative investments, offering insights into diverse asset classes beyond traditional stocks and bonds, empowering investors to explore opportunities in areas like real estate, wine, watches, art and cars. Joe Twyman (Classic Car Investment), Tom Gearing (CEO of Cult Wines) and Chris Youé (PHILLIPS Auction House representative on Contemporary Art and Watches).

 

GJ LIVE: Michael Lohscheller, CEO of Polestar

Michael Lohscheller, CEO of Polestar, reflects on mobility’s evolving scope, the geopolitics of car making in 2025, and what consumers really want out of the cars they drive today.

GJ LIVE: Jon Connell, Founder of The Week and The Knowledge

Jon Connell, Founder of The Week and The Knowledge, navigates the maelstrom of the modern media world — touching on the rise of digital platforms, the voices that actually shape culture, the publications and outlets that will survive and thrive (and those that seem destined to sink), and the changing consumption habits of the modern reader.

GJ LIVE: What good hospitality really means

Our panellists will dive deep into what good hospitality looks like in 2025, exploring common trends, frequent pitfalls, and the businesses and industry leaders renowned for getting it right.

 

Jesse Burgess (Presenter and Co-Founder of TOPJAW LTD), Santiago (Lastra Chef and co-owner of KOL) and Sandia Chang (Co-Founder at Bubbledogs and Kitchen Table)

GJ LIVE: Matthew Freud, PR maestro

As the influential Freuds Group turns 40, its founder and chairman Matthew Freud gives a rare interview on his life and career as a public relations guru.

GJ LIVE: Building a luxury brand from scratch, with Nick English and Luca Faloni

In a live panel discussion, two of the leading voices in modern luxury discuss origin stories, the importance of names, why you should open your first shop as soon as possible — and where they think luxury will go next.

Nick English (co-founder of Bremont; executive chairman of Moke)

Luca Faloni (founder of Luca Faloni)

GJ LIVE: Start-up investment and how to get it

In the first of our special series of live panel conversations, three seasoned VCs share invaluable insights into securing funding, navigating the investment landscape — and the start-ups they passed over that they wish they hadn't...

 

Dinika Mahtani (partner at Cherry Ventures)

Harry Destecroix (co-founder of SCVC)

Harry Stebbings (founder of 20VC)

Graydon Carter, Editor

The legendary editor's new memoir, 'When the Going Was Good', is a delicious dispatch from the golden age of magazines — and a guidebook to the good life, even now.

 

 

The Tao of Toto Wolff

“Play hard, forgive quickly, and apologise when you’re wrong,” says the Mercedes Formula One boss on the eve of a poignant new season.

 

Dom Hamdy

We sit down with Dom Hamdy, the London-based restaurateur who oversees Crispin, Bar Crispin and Bistro Freddie.