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Notes from inside: lessons from Rob Stokes on building Quirk [Net Prophet]
On the heels of the sale of his company Quirk to global mega-corp WPP, Rob Stokes took the stage at technology and trends conference Net Prophet to divulge some lessons he’s learnt as an entrepreneur.
A few weeks ago, WPP announced it was in talks with Quirk to purchase a majority stake in the company. Quirk’s unaudited consolidated revenues for the year ended 28 February 2014 were approximately R140-million, with gross assets at the same date of approximately R68-million. It’s understood that the deal was made, at least in part, to aid in the company’s expansion into Africa.
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