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  • Brent Hoberman

    last updated on 17. January 2008 at 10:02 AM by Jewgenij Basin
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    hoberman_brent.jpg Brent Hoberman co-founded lastminute.com in April 1998 with Martha Lane Fox. As CEO, Brent increased profits substantially, with gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in March 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak - the IPO was 40 times oversubscribed and the price increase during the process was a record for a UK company. Lastminute.com acquired 14 businesses after its IPO, supplementing the annual growth of the core brand, which was over 100% from 1998 – 2004. In 2005, lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn.

    Brent also founded mydeco, an innovative online service for home design and furniture.

    He is Governor of the University of the Arts College, London and a Non-Executive Board Director of Guardian Media Group. Since January 2007, he has taken on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of Wayn.com, a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. Brent is also an angel investor in several internet companies.



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    Dear Brent Hoberman
    I don`t make it a habit of reacting/responding to newspaper articles as written about your new venture, which felt different from only being an on line Argos, though with a potential take up of 80% of that market by volume/value. Though I though I must be able to market myself into a worthwhile role in this potentially execiting startup. Though after visiting Mydeco "site" I was a little less confident, due to the fact it was so well done. There is what I see as either a gap or omission,that is the 2greening of your business model not for it`s own sake it makes for good business sense. As a director/trustee for seven years of the national FRN ltd

    Posted by: J L Jones (balance of e-mail next page) | 20. February 2008 at 03:37 PM

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