Robert Peston

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5,697 appearances 44 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2025 last heard yesterday

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The Rest Is Money · 312. What's missing from Healey's growth plan? · 9 Sep 2026 podcast

So, you know, there does need to be a massive initiative to make sure that these matched

businesses, these fast growing businesses, aren't seen as as a sort of uniquely London South East matched

Phenomenon. matched

So I think so so so that is the right ambition. matched

You raised the unicorn ambition. matched

And so unicorns, just to remind people, these are businesses with a an equity value, a value of a billion plus. matched

He he came up with oh I don't know, I ha I sort of hate th this is the sort of thing. matched

So there was a lot of good detail in this speech. matched

Th this sort of thing actually Gets you got. matched

I don't like it. matched

Never mind your unicorn. matched

Of unicorns, right? matched

Mira cool. matched

So um the the the the the the two things absent from this um ambitious statement. matched

One, how many unicorns does he think there are today? matched

And part of the problem is you go to one data provider or another, you know, the the the the the estimates of how many unicorns there are all over the shop. matched

Yeah. matched

I think some say they're as few as fifty, others say there are nearer three hundred. matched

Um and and then the other thing is no reference of uh uh over what matched

sort of timescale that we were going to double the number of of unicorns. matched

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