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Aug 2023
18m 22s

Business Daily meets: The founders of Se...

Bbc World Service
About this episode

Iain Griffin and Dirk Stewart formed their company after a mutual need for more leg room inspired a brainwave.

They created the Seatfrog app for train travel, which is disrupting the industry.

Dougal Shaw meets them (on a train), and finds out why their business changed from air travel to trains, and moved from Sydney to London.

Presenter/producer: Dougal Shaw

(Image: Iain Griffin and Dirk Stewart. Credit: BBC)

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