Dean Forbes: UK's Top Black CEO on Private Equity, & Building a $100M Business, Market Mondays Live
Market Mondays
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🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Join us for a special edition of Market Mondays Live from London with Dean Forbes, one of the UK's top black CEOs. Forbes shares his wealth of knowledge on private equity, recounts his journey of building a $100M business, and discusses the landscape for black CEOs in the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of the Market Monday's World Tour is brought to you with limited |
| 0:06.3 | interruption by Al-Ala. |
| 0:31.3 | For the unforgettable moments you saved for, we're all better off with an Al-Ala. |
| 0:37.3 | On your feet and give it up for my guy Dean Forbes, a legend in the game and he |
| 0:45.4 | came dressed to the nuns. He made a comment about American fashion. I've noticed |
| 0:50.4 | that. This is something I've noticed. That was funny. Europeans have a very |
| 0:55.2 | disdain for American fashion, but it's understandable. Most Americans can't |
| 1:02.1 | dress, but you're not talking about, you're not talking about people from New York |
| 1:05.5 | though. So that's different. It's a difference. It's a difference like this. New |
| 1:11.6 | York fashion and then there's middle America fashion. I'm from the American |
| 1:16.1 | fashion. It's good though. We adopted them. But Dean, you look very sharp, my brother. |
| 1:25.6 | Thank you. So let's get into this, man. What led you to become a CEO in the |
| 1:29.9 | tech sector? And what is your biggest motivated to keep going forward? Oh, man, |
| 1:35.2 | well, firstly, thank you guys for having me here. Like I said before, you know, I'm a |
| 1:37.8 | big, big fan of the show, a big fan of the format, you know, getting these |
| 1:41.3 | people together and giving all these gems. It's amazing. So it's a pleasure and |
| 1:45.5 | an honor to be part of this. I think I've told that story a couple of times. What |
| 1:51.5 | got me into tech was the biggest kind of failure in my career. I was trying to |
| 1:56.1 | play football that didn't work out. I had a bunch of debt. And then when that kind |
| 2:00.4 | of all came to a head, my agent at the time said, you got to go work at Motorola |
| 2:04.5 | because you're in so much debt you need to earn money right now. Otherwise, it's |
| 2:08.3 | going to cripple you for life and very tough decision, very difficult moment in |
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