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Key facts
- Show
- Back Of The Napkin
- Format
- Long-form founder conversations with live napkin maths
- Schedule
- New long-form episodes every Monday
- First episode
- Monday 5 October 2026, 1pm UK
- Hosts
- Mike Bandar (Waybook) & Amin Hamzianpour (Qube)
- Production
- An IAM Podcasts production
- Press contact
- hello@backofthenapkin.co.uk
Podcast description
Back Of The Napkin is a weekly UK business podcast hosted by Mike Bandar and Amin Hamzianpour. Every episode gets beyond the polished success story to find out how a business was actually built: the first sale, the wrong turns, the deals that nearly fell apart and the numbers that kept it afloat. Mike and Amin talk pricing, customers, cash and growing pains with the people who've been through them. One conversation, a few hard-earned lessons and the napkin maths behind it — every Monday.
Host biographies
Mike Bandar
Mike Bandar is Co-Founder of Waybook, the business playbook tool helping growing teams document their systems and knowledge. Waybook grew from Turn Partners, the startup studio Mike co-founded in 2013 to acquire, turn around and create digital businesses. A graduate of Aston Business School who has built businesses since the age of 15, Mike is a Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at UCL, Chair of the Aston Business School advisory board and an angel investor in companies including Monzo, Nothing and Grind. He has received a British Empire Medal for services to young entrepreneurs and an honorary Doctorate of Science from Aston University.
Amin Hamzianpour
Amin Hamzianpour is Founder and CEO of Qube, a members' club and studio network for music and content creators. After studying Human Sciences at Oxford and working at Morgan Stanley, Amin left finance to pursue music production as A-Minor, with records played on BBC Radio 1. His experience in expensive, isolated basement studios inspired Qube: flexible, professional creative spaces built around a curated community where musicians, podcasters and content creators can meet, collaborate and make their best work.
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Booking Mike or Amin
Interviews, panels and speaking: email hello@backofthenapkin.co.uk.