Zing Tsjeng
speaker
5,630 appearances
21 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 2d ago
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 21 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 11.
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I think that's short for boffins.
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Classic Alan Sugarism there.
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Yes.
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to help him make a simple radio receiver to pick up radio stations.
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Left school at 16, but by this time he claims he was making more money than his dad.
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He said, and his quote is, my dad always worried about putting food on the table.
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When I left school, I said, that's never going to happen to me.
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Pretty good money in those days, actually.
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Yeah.
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But at age 18, he started dating a hairdresser called Anne and then he proposed to her.
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He wanted to buy a house and asked for a raise at work.
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They said no, so he left.
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He took £100 out from his savings.
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He spent £50 to buy a second-hand minivan, £8 on the insurance and said, it was a good deal.
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Unfortunately, it was always breaking down, especially when I had to go on business rounds.
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It taught me you get what you pay for.
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So in 1968, aged 21, he incorporated his company AMS, Alan Michael Sugar Trading.
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And incorporating basically means, you know, rather than being a sole trader, you have a company, an entity, which is a business, which kind of operates as a legal thing separate from yourself.
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And some advantages in that, in that you can, you know, you pay the money into it rather than paying income tax directly as a person.
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The money goes into the business.
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