AO boss tells BBC: We're a British success story – the UK should be turbocharging us
Some 25 years later, he's won his bet and then some.
The so-called kitchen king started AO selling discounted fridges and washing machines after a £1 bet with a friend that he couldn't pull it off.
He is now at the helm of a £564m UK empire selling a host of big and small household appliances from TVs,
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