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Co-hosts: Chris Godsmark & Ian Fishwick

Hello I’m Ian Fishwick (on the right), I’m a technology entrepreneur who started a business in a spare bedroom with little money and eventually sold it in a £100 million transaction. I've been listed on the stock market and done over 40 acquisitions along the way. I had the honour of reporting 29 consecutive years of rising EBITDA, and was named UK CEO of the Year on 3 occasions. I wrote 'The Street-Smart MBA' - I’ve been in business for over 30 years and I’ve got all the war stories to prove it.

And I’m Chris Godsmark (on the left) and for over two decades I’ve been advising technology led companies with valuations of up to a billion pounds and more on mergers and acquisitions. And along the way I helped to create an advisory business which we scaled and sold.

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In another story from The Street-Smart MBA, Ian looks at the power of guessing the answer first, before you ask a question, where the answer is a number.

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In another story from The Street-Smart MBA, Ian looks at the power of guessing the answer first, before you ask a question, where the answer is a number.