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Business Daily meets: Dean Forbes

The CEO of software company Forterro on becoming an influential entrepreneur after living in "abject poverty".

We meet the CEO of software firm, Forterro.

Dean Forbes twice became homeless as a teenager, then got dropped from a career as a professional footballer. He points to that failure as a key moment in his eventual success, because it made him more determined. Now the business executive has topped a list celebrating influential black Britons.

(Picture: Dean Forbes. Credit: Getty Images)

Presented by Theo Leggett
Produced by Theo Leggett and Sam Clack

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