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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Laura Clements & Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas

Man who skipped uni went from £6-an-hour IT apprentice to selling his company to Amazon

A man who never went to university after underperforming at his A-Levels ended up selling his company to Amazon.

Despite holding ambitions of one day creating a $100m dollar company, Matt Warren was struggling to grow his watch business 12 years ago after finding it difficult to keep track of stock levels across different platforms as online shopping began to boom.

But after developing a neat bit of code and new computer software designed specifically by Matt for businesses like his own, he works today at Amazon's swish offices at Technium 2 in Kings Road in Swansea after selling his start-up firm Veeqo to Jeff Bezos' retail and tech giant for an undisclosed sum.

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