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Day: September 30, 2006

2006 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs in the UK

Update 1: Source for above list is Sunday Times Rich List. Above is the online millionaire list. Freeserve was claimed to have sold for £1.6bn to Wanadoo. Only Peter Wilkinson’s name is mentioned. Where is Ajaz Ahmed and the other guys? Sofware: Graham Wylie made bulk of his money from Sage. Where is Michael Jackson from Sage? 295= Graham Wylie £200m Software and racehorses 354 Dr Mike Lynch £164m Software 648= Dr Jan Hruska £90m Software 648= Dr Peter Lammer £90m Software I have not found a way to download the full list in one go. If you do manage,…

Great Leaders 3 – Ajaz Ahmed of Freeserve

This was an unusual week of meeting successful people. Third was none other than Ajaz Ahmed. A Dixons store manager, who came up with the idea to set-up Freeserve. Here is a bit about Ajaz from http://www.e-consultancy.com (his story is well covered) Ajaz Ahmed is the founder of Freeserve, the UK’s largest ISP, now owned by Wanadoo. His eureka moment came when he bought a PC at PC World in Leeds and nobody in the store could tell him how to get onto the Internet. After much persuasion by him, Dixons launched Freeserve in September 1998 and became the UK’s…