Before you listen to this BBC podcast, I'd like to quickly tell you about some others.

My name's Andy Martin and I'm the editor of a team of podcast producers at the BBC in Northern Ireland.

It's a job I really love because we get to tell the stories that really matter to people here,

but which also resonate and apply to listeners around the world.

And because the team has such a diverse

range of skills and strengths, we have trained journalists, people who love digging through archives,

we've got drama and even comedy experts. We really can do those stories justice. So if you

like this podcast, head to BBC Sounds where you'll find plenty more fascinating stories from all around the UK.

Wake Up to Money, Boardroom Stories with Felicity Hanna.

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of Wake Up to Money's Boardroom Stories.

I'm Felicity Hanna. I've been speaking to one of the UK's most prominent investors, Guy Hans.

He made his career forging deals in the rough and tumble,

multi-billion-pound world of private equity.

While it's mostly been a career of success,

he has had his fair share of failures in business too.

In this frank interview, he starts by talking about the impact of his dyslexia on his

education and his subsequent career.

Interestingly, some of the barriers are actually worse today than they were then, and some of the

barriers are a lot easier. I think then it was really, really difficult to progress to get the opportunity to go to Oxford.

There was enormous discrimination against what was seen as being stupid.

And that was compounded by the discrimination from one's peers,

one's school colleagues, etc.

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