Gavin Wheeldon
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It is exactly that.
And that's the exact reason I decided to start the business.
With the last business I had, I traveled all over the world.
We had offices in 12 countries and customers in 91.
So I relied on public Wi-Fi an awful lot.
And it was one of those things that just got me more and more annoyed.
I'd log on to a Wi-Fi somewhere.
I'd come back a few months later and ask me for a username and password.
I had no idea what I'd put in.
And I just thought, why isn't somebody doing this simpler?
And so when I sold the last business, had a look around, is anybody doing this?
They weren't.
So I thought, you know, there's a problem, a very annoying problem here that needs solving.
A considerable amount.
Give me a range.
Yeah, it was over 60 million sterling as a broad brush.
And generally, just quickly, what did that company do?
It was in the translation and interpreting business.
And the key thing that we did differently was use technology.
So whether that was to use machine translation engines and not like Google or MX,