Talk:Mark Dixon (businessman)

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This article is lacking information about the CEO of a 30-year multinational company in 120 markets. I would like to ask the help of the community to edit and add content to the page for completeness to increase its quality rating. Calling all researchers, writers and editors! Thanks. --KatherineBusby2019 (talk) 15:50, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

You shouldn't need a full-blown thirty-day formal RfC for this, and I can't find evidence that the suggestions at WP:RFCBEFORE have been exhausted. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:02, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, I was not aware of any other editors on this Talk page. Should I start a new section to discuss this issue in case there is someone out there who could help?KatherineBusby2019 (talk) 14:21, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No, just discuss in this thread, but consider removing the {{rfc}} tag because it isn't (yet) appropriate. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:14, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@RedRose64: RfC tag removed. What would be the best way to add information to this page? To get the ball rolling, my first proposal is below:

Would it make sense to develop the section on Mark Dixon's early life?

Explanation

After a couple of years working his passage around the world as everything from the aforementioned barman and farmhand, to miner and encyclopedia salesman, he returned aged 18, bought a hot dog van for £600 and parked it up every evening by the side of the North Circular. He later bought seven other vans in Essex before ploughing his £10,000 savings into setting up The Bread Roll Company, which he sold in 1988 for £800,000.

He moved to Brussels and had a flat-rental firm before he spotted businessmen holding meetings around coffee tables in hotels, saw the potential for providing desks for executives on the move and set up Regus in 1989. When he floated the business in October 2000, it was valued at £1.5bn. Six months later, it was worth £2bn and Mr Dixon's 60pc stake at the time made him a billionaire.

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/profiles/5219967/Mark-Dixon-the-Briton-who-wants-to-build-a-new-Google.html

KatherineBusby2019 (talk) 09:20, 3 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]