#300 James Dyson (Against the Odds)

It must have been sometime in nineteen seventy nine that I first heard the words, but James, if there were a better kind of vacuum cleaner Hoover would have invented it. That was just before I left the first company that had set up. I gave up security. Income and respectability.

And persuaded an old friend to come in with me on a project that I was developing in the garage behind my house. For twelve years I labored under heavier and heavier debt. I tried and failed to interest the major manufacturing companies in my product. I fought terrible legal battles. on both sides of the Atlantic to protect my vacuum cleaner.

And in nineteen ninety two. Thirteen years later. In the cold. What English countryside.

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