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DURING those frenetic tech-driven days in the 1990s, David Sibbald was the entrepreneur everyone wanted to emulate: young, bright, dynamic and forward-thinking, he had returned from Silicon Valley in America hoping to create a world-class business in his home country. And he did.
The awards followed, and so did the adulation. He was the ideal talisman for those charged with trying to rebuild Scotland as a modern, knowledge-based economy and his face beamed out of every brochure encouraging Scots to be more entrepreneurial. He became an adviser to the Executive on the early development of broadband technology and had the ear of ministers whenever he had anything to say.See the full content of this document
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Interview: David Sibbald: In with the It Crowd
Then he sold out to one of the big US corporations, made his fortune and everybody assumed that was that. Any hopes that he might create something big and Scottish-owned appeared to have gone the way of so many others before.
But Sibbald never did go away. He might have assumed a lower profile, but he didn't disappear like many others with a fat cheque, a set of golf clubs and a one-...See the full content of this document
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