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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Instead, it was time to take his company public.
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That means selling shares to the public in what we call an initial public offering or IPO.
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We've been down this road with some of our billionaires before.
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So in 1980, Amstrad started trading on the London Stock Exchange.
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Alan sold 25% of his shares publicly.
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for £2 million, a much better deal than what Lasky's was offering.
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That milestone passed.
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So let us go now from a million to a billion.
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It's now 1980.
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It's the beginning of Thatcher's Britain, Margaret Thatcher, the Prime Minister of the UK.
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And in Alan's words, the 1980s gave anyone the opportunity to succeed.
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The establishment was smashed, definitely.
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The old school tie went out the window.
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Anybody can do anything now.
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And I remember this period.
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It was basically this kind of very public, you know, unashamed, money-making, opportunistic era.
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Alan felt it wouldn't be rocket science for Amstrad to make a low cost machine to compete with
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With the other home computer makers, Commodore, Acorn, Sinclair were the familiar names those days.
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He felt the existing computers looked like pregnant calculators is the way he put it.
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His computer would be a slick all-in-one system.
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