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🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Oh, Watts Occurring Jim? For the first time ever we actually wrote down some questions for our interview with founder of INEOS and our big boss, Sir Jim Ratcliffe.
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0:00.0 | Right then but what's occurring? What's occurring? What's occurring? |
0:16.0 | What's occurring by brains? So this is a very special one I think to be honest it's the first time we've ever written any questions down just so we |
0:24.5 | don't lose where we are. Yeah so we're out here in Milwaukee Cam we had a day with a |
0:30.4 | VIPs today which was a gentleman's TT. So we had Sir Jim come over with his sons and friends. So we've got Sir Jim himself. |
0:42.0 | Welcome. Hello. Hello. Hello hello. Thanks for coming. We know you're an avid |
0:45.6 | listener. We know you've been itching to come on. Oh indeed. I don't even know what a podcast |
0:50.9 | is. So basically we thought we'd start with Inios. |
0:55.0 | It's obviously very successful business now, but you started that from scratch? |
1:00.0 | Yeah, 1998. |
1:01.0 | 19. |
1:02.0 | Yeah. And the name, where's the name come from just for... |
1:05.0 | Anyos? |
1:07.0 | Uyos, it's got a slightly sort of chemical orientation, |
1:10.0 | but it's got a bit of Latin and Greek in it. |
1:12.0 | Right. And we had to come up with a |
1:13.7 | name every weekend so we bought a couple of dictionaries we've got a Latin |
1:16.6 | dictionary in a Greek dictionary and the boys were quite young it's 1998 so |
1:20.0 | my two boys some and George you were in the TT today and they were quite young. |
1:24.2 | So we were sort of leafing through these dictionaries because you can't, in the modern world, |
1:29.2 | you know, you can't come up with a sensible name for a chemical company because someone's already |
1:33.1 | taking it so you sort of have to make up a word so I bought these two |
1:36.2 | dictionaries from the bookshop and we were looking at it on a Saturday morning and the |
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