I did some research of British Business Bank and it said that something like 0.2% of institutional money goes to people from black Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

And I was this person basically. I'm doing a hundred metre race. I'm looking down my lane.

My people I'm running against, they're all the same physique, same training, we've got a fair chance, a fair

shot. Suddenly they look down my lane and they're putting out hurdles. I know there's hurdles.

I can deal with that. I know what they are. Let's do this. Then they say to me, excuse me,

said Lenny, could you start 20 meters back? So then the gun goes, I start running and claiming

the hurdles. And then I realized there's flipping

invisible hurdles and smacking my shins on. And that's the race that you're running. And that

shouldn't be the case. That's the same if you're a white working class lad, right, is raising

this kind of money. So that has to change.

Welcome to the eventful entrepreneur. I'm your host Dodge and I'm the CEO and founder of the Bournemouth Sevens Festival and the revolutionary event crowd on new online events course.

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Pierce Lini is best known as a dragon from the long-running BBC series Dragon's Den,

which returned to our screens last week.

He's a boy done good who's gone from paper rounds to billion-pound businesses via

investment, banking and the dot-com boom.

I spoke to Peers over Zoom about his early entrepreneurial spirit, his journey through the many

aspects of business and how racing class are still obstacles to success for minorities and

the working class. This is the eventful life of Mr. Peers Linney.

Hey Peers, welcome to the show, mate. Hi,, Dodge. Good morning. Good morning to you. What about

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