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London Real

Exile to Entrepreneur

London Real

Brian Rose

Investing, Business, Technology

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2011

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On this week's show we host our mutual friend Mike Moghaddas. Mike has led a diverse and interesting life. Originally from Iran, he was smuggled out of the country to Sweden at age 12. He became a top martial artist (judo, shorinji-kenpo and kendo), the youngest founding member of SonyEricsson and now lives in London where he has his own business consultancy. Mike shares with us several stories from his wide-ranging, exciting and often difficult life experiences.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Hey guys, welcome to London Real. My name is Nick Gabriel. I'm with my co-host and good friend Brian Rose.

0:22.0

And our first ever guest who is a mutual friend of

0:25.6

us his name is Mike Mogharas how you doing Mike I'm doing fine

0:29.8

thanks for inviting me so the reason we decided to have Mike on the show as our first guest is he's one of the most interesting guys I've ever met.

0:40.0

Wow. Yeah, and I've met a lot of interesting people, right?

0:43.7

The thing that fascinates me about Mike is just how many things you've done with your

0:50.1

life, you know, you've been on the Swedish National Judo Squad you've been

0:54.6

incredibly high up in Sony Ericsson in the corporate world when you finished

0:58.3

university or while you were in university you were working at a sewage company if

1:02.4

I'm not mistaken?

1:03.1

You know I've done a lot of that stuff.

1:06.3

And the most interesting thing I've found or the most

1:10.1

interesting stories that you've told me come from your experiences having fled Iran when you were 12 or 13 years old and that that is just fascinating.

1:19.0

So let's start with that Mike.

1:31.0

What I've had my mind is just what was going through a head as a little kid 12 or 13 on this escape from Iran. What was happening?

1:32.0

What was happening? What year was that and what politically was going on at the time?

1:37.0

I think it was mid 80s.

1:38.0

Okay so the Shah was already in power.

1:40.0

Yeah, just after a revolution, you know, first of all I just want to say that, you know, I'll tell a bunch of stuff and some with

1:51.0

friends and so on that have been involved, I don't want to name them.

1:54.5

Yeah don't yeah.

1:55.7

We don't need a liability either.

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