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Punch above your weight

Nick Brittonby Nick Britton

Jos White, who sold his company MessageLabs for US$695 million, on why it's so important to act like a bigger business than you really are.

The MessageLabs story by Jos White of Notion Capital

Jos was a co-founder of MessageLabs, which was eventually sold to Symantec. He then invested a share of their proceeds in establishing Notion Capital to spread some of the proceeds among young tech businesses.

Read our interview with Jos: How I made $700 million.

Jos White has also spoken at the London Business School as part of their Entrepreneurial Leadership series.

Nick Britton

Nick Britton

Nick was the Managing Editor for growthbusiness.co.uk when it was owned by Vitesse Media, before moving on to become Head of Investment Group and Editor at What Investment and thence to Head of Intermediary...

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