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James B Watt MBE

@JamesBWatt

Captain & Co-Founder @brewdog 🍺 Founder Social Tip 📱 Best-Selling Author 📕 Investor in @SpaceX + 20 others🚀 North Atlantic Captain

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Well, the Budget is in. From a business perspective, the tax increases are a bitter pill to swallow. The UK is in desperate need of economic growth, yet the tax increases announced yesterday make that goal significantly harder to achieve. The situation Labour inherited isn’t…

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Dear @Keir_Starmer Starmer & @RachelReevesMP , Firstly, sorry for the hand which you have been dealt. After 14 years of @Conservatives government our beloved country has never been in a worse state. I wish you both strength, courage and resolve as you endeavour to get our…

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Liberal democracy in the UK is facing an existential crisis. Before I elaborate, this is not about party politics. I remain agnostic. After 14 years of Conservative government things are as bad as they have ever been. If the national debt continues to increase (which unless…

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This is the send-off we gave my father ⚓ After the funeral service we hosted a celebration of life at his favourite place: Gardenstown Harbour. His 2 boats slowly sailed into the harbour as we lit up the sky with fireworks to a bagpipe band playing Highland Cathedral. We also…


GIVE AWAY! 3 VIP tickets to see Taylor Swift this Monday at Wembley. 💺We will sort travel for you + 2 from anywhere in the UK to London. 🏩 1 night stay at the Four Seasons on Park Lane (2 rooms). 👨‍✈️ A chauffeur driven car for the night. More details are here:…

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Early this morning, I lost my absolute hero and my forever rock as we said goodbye to my dad. My dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer only 6 weeks ago and it was heartbreaking to see him decline so quickly. Only 8 weeks ago he was still catching lobsters on his boat The…

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I recently shared the tragic news that my father is currently in end of life care at the Roxburghe House hospice in Aberdeen after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer on June 22nd. My father has been a lifelong lobster fisherman, and my grandfather was also catching…

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How do you measure a life? The @thetimes asked me to write this piece about my father for Sunday's edition. How do you measure a life? It is a question I am repeatedly asking myself as I sit by my dying father’s bedside at Roxburghe House, a NHS palliative care facility in the…

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I shared my father’s sudden cancer diagnosis a few weeks back and I was incredibly grateful to have received so many amazing messages and treatment suggestions – thank you. Up until the start of June my father was as a full-time lobster fisherman, hauling 300 lobster pots per…

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A crazy 30 second phone call changed @BrewDog forever. A few months after starting BrewDog in 2007, the business began to grow and we decided to advertise for our first ever full-time role. We posted the job details on brewing notice boards online and I sat braced for a stream…

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I am going to be watching Scotland v Switzerland tomorrow @BrewdogWaterloo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇭 If Scotland win, I will buy everyone there a beer to celebrate 🍻 Let's go Scotland!

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Hi @DeborahMeaden, @toukersuleyman, @StevenBartlett, @SaraDaviesCC & @dragonjones Dragon’s Den famously turned down @BrewDog, and missed out on what would have been by far their most lucrative investment in their history. To ensure you don’t miss out again, I am giving each…


I love building things, and after 17 amazing years as @BrewDog CEO, I wanted to throw myself headfirst back into build mode, and I am excited to tell you all about a brand-new business I am launching called Social Tip. This new business builds on everything I have learned from…

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What do you do when you’re told your beer is forbidden because it has a bird on it? If you're our clever distributor in Wingman Iceland, you: - Listen to the decision of the ATVR (the only shops allowed to sell alcohol in Iceland) - Put a VERY simple sticker saying 'CENSORED BY…

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Looking for a great freelance copy writer for some help on a really cool project. DM me if interested.


Today, I have undertaken the @FoundersPledge promise – a promise to donate a significant portion of any future proceeds from my BrewDog equity to help drive positive change in our world. Since starting @BrewDog in 2007, I have always steadfastly believed that business should be…

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Welcome to the family @BrewDog Denver! We officially open the doors today.


Tiny Baby Trees versus Scottish Weather: A Lost Forest Update. 🌲 How many trees do you think are cut down each year? Unbelievably, the answer is 15.3 billion. That’s right, every year, humans destroy over fifteen billion trees, replacing only about eight per cent with new…

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