Zing Tsjeng
speaker
5,630 appearances
21 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d 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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If you take money out of the business in the form of dividends, sometimes you can pay less tax.
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Perfectly normal thing to do for someone who is, you know, someone like him to set up his own company.
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Yeah, I wonder how the dynamics of that work.
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I mean, it probably makes more sense if you can do something for a family member, pay them for doing something useful, pay them more.
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Does it alter the power structures within the family dynamic?
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I'm betting it did.
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Alan worked hard.
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He was in the office at 6am.
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He didn't go home till 9pm.
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He was importing low-cost consumer electronics and reselling them wholesale to retailers.
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And his focus was, in his words, the mass market.
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It's the truck driver and his wife end of the market.
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People used to get quite, and still do, get very particular about their hi-fi equipment.
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And so having a cover, so where you would put the disc, you put the cover for when it's not being used.
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And vinyl's made a comeback,
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So he was onto something here and he repeated this same trick, outsourcing, undercutting competitors with other electronic equipment.
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He imported goods cheaply from Asia, putting the Amstrad name on them and selling for a profit in the UK.
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He said, I was always going to be the pile them high, sell them cheap end of the market.
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So his success drew a little bit of attention.
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He turned down a bid from a competitor, Lasky's, who offered £2 million to acquire 75% of the company.
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