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Dec 2024
17m 28s

Business Daily meets: Dean Forbes

Bbc World Service
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We meet the CEO of Swedish software firm, Forterro.

Dean Forbes twice became homeless as a teenager, then got dropped from a career as a professional footballer. He points to that failure as a key moment in his eventual success, because it made him more determined. Now the business executive has topped a list celebrating influential black Britons.

(Picture: Dean Forbes. Credit: Getty Images)

Presented and produced by Theo Leggett

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