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The web boss who went from rugs to riches
When teenage carpet salesman Lee Biggins decided to set up a jobseekers website, he wasn't going to let the fact he didn't have any computer skills hold him back. This was back in 1999, and the then 19-year-old had big ambitions for his business idea. So he went out and spent 899 on a computer, and an internet how-to book. Mr Biggins, who had left school at 15 "with some terrible grades - Es, Fs, and Gs", also enrolled on a computer literacy course in his hometown of Fleet, in Hampshire, 45 miles south west of London. But realising he could still do with some technical assistance, he says he went down his local pub one evening, and asked everyone: "Does anyone know someone who can build a website?"