BGF
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Sep 10, 2026
A $2B Exit Taught Me This About Success | Ashok Suppiah
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57:32Ashok SuppiahGUEST
He's vocal now and then.
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57:34Ashok SuppiahGUEST
I mean, do I have an opinion? I think if banks are making insane amount of profits, It's okay to tax them in a structured way, but you don't have to tax them to penalize them because economy only thrives if you're investing the money back into the economy, right? So taxing means what does, okay, if you make five billion pounds of extra tax from banks, what would the government do with it? Where would they put it? Would they put it in the NHS? you know, that's the question everybody's asking, right? So, I spoke to a private equity firm called BGF, British Growth Fund, you might know, and they are funded by the four largest banks, HSBC, Barclays, and so on.
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58:31Ashok SuppiahGUEST
That came in the 2008 financial crisis.
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58:33Ashok SuppiahGUEST
The bank said, the government said, I'll bail you guys out, but when you make recovery you got to put the money back into the society into the community so that you England UK can really thrive so that's how that BGF came about so they could do other things just taxing for what is the question
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58:52speaker_6UNKNOWN
I was really hoping you were going to say no comment there, and that would have been just a great, great little thing.
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58:57speaker_6UNKNOWN
Next one,
Ep.139 - No Clients, No Book, No Blueprint: Matt Abouzeid & Mohneet Dhir on Building &together
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34:23Matt AbouzeidGUEST
So far, it feels like a good thing because we spend a lot of our time talking to other people who are working with founders.
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34:29Matt AbouzeidGUEST
So it might be fractional CFOs who the founder will bring into the business at a certain part of the journey to help them And, you know, speaking to other people in that ecosystem, like a couple of weeks ago, we were in Manchester at the Business Growth Fund doing a presentation to a room of founders.
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34:46Matt AbouzeidGUEST
But just being in those environments constantly, I think has been...
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34:52Matt AbouzeidGUEST
Been definitely a benefit.