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E181 - Dame Stephanie Shirley: From child refugee to the Sunday Times rich list. What I’ve learned in 90 years

The High Performance Podcast

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Introduction

Dame Vera Shirley is the founder and CEO of Concord. She arrived in Britain as an unaccompanied child refugee at age five during World War II. After going to university, she set up her own tech company with a team of women. The first black boxes programmed for Concord were programmed by housewives on their kitchen tables being employed by Steve. Dame Vera: "I don't fit in my days away. I like to do something meaningful"

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