Zing Tsjeng
speaker
5,313 appearances
20 recordings
9 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4d ago
Zing Tsjeng’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Annual profits plummeted from 160 million in 1988 to 44 million in 1990.
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And Alan Sugar said, we expanded too quickly.
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We screwed up.
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We didn't have enough engineering, enough understanding of the technology as it got more complex, and I take total responsibility for that.
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Instead, he started to diversify Amstrad into the burgeoning satellite television market.
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Big moment.
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Well, Alan had originally been quoted £30 per satellite dish to manufacture.
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Too expensive at that time.
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So he went back to some of his first principles.
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He looked at the dish and he said, basically, and this is probably true, isn't it?
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It was just like a dustbin lid.
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So he suggested finding manufacturers who already stamped out metal products rather than treating it as a specialist, cool kind of technical aerospace style component.
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So Amstrad saw steel that cost about 70 pence per dish in raw materials, then found a metal pressing firm who were used to making things like car body panels to manufacture them.
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And Amstrad became the sole supplier of the receiving equipment manufacturing both the satellite dishes and the receiver boxes at a crucial moment when satellite is taking off.
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But at the same time, Alan started taking an interest in football.
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In 1991, he teamed up with manager Terry Venables to buy Tottenham Hotspur, Spurs football club, which was on the brink of bankruptcy.
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And he beat Robert Maxwell to the purchase, former newspaper owner.
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It seems to happen a lot to Maxwell if you listen to our Rupert Murdoch episode.
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He bought 40% of the shares in Tottenham Hotspur, made an initial investment of £8 million, and at first he was hailed as a saviour.
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Now, there's probably quite a lot of owners of sports teams who would fit into that catch group.
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