Darryl Mattocks: Selling books online before Amazon
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English - April 14, 2019 18:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MBBusiness Technology technology business history business history technology history technology business dot coms Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This week's guest started an online bookshop that was probably the first in the world. He’s not Jeff Bezos but he is, arguably, Britain’s answer to the founder of Amazon. He’s Darryl Mattocks and he was selling books online in 1994 - a year ahead of Amazon. In fact Mr Bezos later came to the UK to check out The Internet Bookshop, as it was called. You’ll find out whether the Internet Bookshop had a happy ending in this podcast. And how Darryl's tech business success story began with making money from his computer when he was still a boy.