Reviewing my progress, or lack of it perhaps, yesterday I reflected on my early (Year 2000) dot com experiences. I was a newly qualified accountant then, and had recently been put in charge of building and leading a 15 man (woman) finance team for PCCW UK Internet Services Division, PCCW are the Hong Kong equivalent of BT in the UK.

The Internet Services Division or PCCW UK had just launched what the PR Gurus had dubbed the "NOW TV" the Worlds First Internet and Television Converged Service. This was a super startup and Joint venture between IMGs Trans-world International and PCCW. The Founder was Richard Li, a man I met only on one occasion, and yes it was in an elevator, or lift.

He politely asked me who I was, and I explained that I ran the Finance Department, and I asked him the same question, and he replied "I'm Richard". I looked at him somewhat puzzled, as if to say Richard who?, of course being completely unaware that I was literally sharing the "proverbial elevator" with Richard Li, the son of Hong Kong's Richest Man Li Ka-shing.