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Georgie Law is currently Reevoo’s Sales and Marketing intern. This week she’s taken some time away from her top-quality interning to interview Richard Anson, Reevoo’s CEO and co-founder, on the origins of Reevoo, his own background and what makes him tick.

Georgie: What was your first ever job?

Richard: Aside from the usual school holiday weeks here and there, my first job was selling burglar alarms in Hong Kong for six months during a gap year between school and university. It was a mixture of door-to-door selling and cold-calling from the Yellow Pages.

G: What sort of training did you get?

R: There was no training, no preparation. I was handed a telephone directory and told to get on with it.

G: Straight in at the deep end! What do you think the experience taught you?

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