Brent Hoberman

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Brent Hoberman is founder of lastminute.com and of Mydeco. He shot to fame as one of the bright young faces of the ‘dot-com’ boom, when he co-founded lastminute.com. He co-founded lastminute.com in 1998 with Martha Lane Fox and took the company to profit and gross bookings of over $2bn. The company floated in 2000 when the dot-com bubble was at its peak. It acquired 14 businesses after the IPO to supplement the annual growth of the core brand. In 2005 lastminute.com was sold to Sabre for $1.1bn. Mydeco.com is the UK’s leading interior design website. It brings together the widest range of home furnishing products, from over 750 retailers. Brent is a Governor of University of the Arts College, London and a non-executive director of Guardian Media Group. From 2007 he took on the role of Non-Executive Chairman of Wayn.com, a travel and leisure social network with over 10 million members. He is also an angel investor in several internet companies including Viagogo and moveme.com.

Milestones

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• Invested in eRepublik. (6/10/08)
  Posted 6/10/08 at 9:30am
• Invested in Wahanda. (2/14/08)
  Posted 7/9/08 at 6:33am
• Invested in WAYN. (11/1/06)
  Posted 1/18/08 at 4:13am
• Added position as Founder & Executive Chairman at mydeco.
  Posted 12/20/08 at 5:48am

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1. EREPUBLIK raises 550,000 before launching public version (erepublik.com) [edit]
2. Techcrunch UK (uk.techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. americanventuremagazine.com [edit]