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Wales Online
Wales Online
Neil Shaw

Mum's earwigging in restaurant launched her sons on multimillion career

Social media whizz-kid Luke Lintz has built a multi-million-dollar business – but it would never have got off the ground if it wasn’t for his mum. Luke and his two brothers feared their high school hustle of selling tech gadgets via social media was about to fail.

But the boys were saved by a chance meeting during a family meal at a posh restaurant when their mum, Tannis spotted the entrepreneur Stefan Aarnio at a nearby table. After hearing Stefan explaining to his marketing director that he planned to fire the entire social marketing department team, Tannis grabbed the bull by the horns.

She told Aarnio her boys were social media whizz kids, and could help.

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