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Darrell Wade

Darrell Wade

Entrepreneur

Sep 27, 2026

0:32
Could you not live with yourself? Like once you'd sort of seen and understood.
0:37
I mean, yeah, sure.
0:38
You certainly feel responsibility, definitely.
0:41
But I think it's, more fundamental than that in a way.
0:44
You know, we've always been a business that looks beyond Manchin Eye, if you like.
0:49
Like if you think, well, there's two people who start the company and we're the two shareholders in the company.
0:55
But ultimately, we very quickly realized that there's other people involved.
28:52
But they come along, and they make you an offer you can't refuse?
28:56
No, not really.
28:57
Um [laughs] uh, so s- so first of all, the first five years were pretty tough.
29:02
Uh, but after that we're, we're fine, you know, in terms of, you know, food on the table, if you like.
29:06
But yeah, in, uh, in, from about 2007, TUI, which is a, an Anglo-German company, uh, that at the time was doing a lot and lots of acquisitions of other companies, and they kept knocking on our door.
29:21
And every year they'd kind of say, "Hey, do you want to sell? We'd like to buy you." And I'd kind of say, "No, not really.
29:27
We're having fun." And, and it, and it got a bit boring.

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36:55
... love your reflections.

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