We were all sat around a table, the bright eyes of hope untarnished by realism. We had just agreed a new funding round and were on a high, it was the late 1990s, we could do anything, we were on the way, man. The new economy, a revolution in ecommerce. And we were in the driving seat.
With us were some representatives from Racal, one of the premier HST manufacturers at the time. We were a small fish for them, lucky to have dragged them to the meeting, even.
"What would it take to buy Racal out of this business in the UK?"
There is a stunned silence, nobody can believe he just asked that.