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Sir Robin Saxby, part I
Thursday, 30th August 2007
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Sir Robin Saxby on how he got his business off the ground. He talks about his first-year loss, second-year profit, and his eventual rise to world-dominating status.
Sir Robin Saxby, founder of computer chip manufacturing business ARM, tells Dan Matthews how he started the business and built it to a billion-pound behemoth.
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