Dragons’ Den Star and Entrepreneur, Touker Suleyman | Full Q&A

Dragons’ Den Star and Entrepreneur, Touker Suleyman | Full Q&A | Oxford Union

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Touker Suleyman is a British-Turkish Cypriot fashion retail entrepreneur, investor, and television personality. His company Low Profile Group purchased UK shirt maker Hawes and Curtis in 2001, and he purchased UK fashion label Ghost in 2002. Since then, he has invested in a number of start-up companies including Bikesoup and Huxley and Cox. Since 2015 he has been in the public eye as a dragon on the British reality television programme Dragon’s Den.
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@walter.zikalala Жыл бұрын

Respect, humility, and having time for the 'smaller person' always a good sign of greatness. Great soul, such a pleasure to listen to Touker Suleyman!

@paveldavilagarfias1518 Жыл бұрын

I need some offices in London.

@_Tabasco Жыл бұрын

You need some Touker time

@mykehyslop198 Жыл бұрын

You wouldn't like the cost of rent.

@alihughes5516 10 күн бұрын

But he doesn’t get out of bed for 1%

@brianquinn5060 Жыл бұрын

What a great man of high calibre.

@Sarah-qg4eu 10 ай бұрын

It’s amazing what he did with hawes and curtis. Smart and personable guy. Respect

@georginabird9354 4 күн бұрын

Absolutely brilliant thank you for taking the time to talk to everyone your brilliant , and I love watching and listening to you , Touker Suleyman , but would love to know what shoes you are wearing ,they look so comfy xx thank you for your time ❤❤

@annieterminetschuppon7232 Жыл бұрын

He is correct. My teacher at Michigan university kept saying, no needs to create new stuff, just have a look at a successful product, check what is missing or not properly done and, do better. That way, you will be successful

@wolfman9132 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic, thank you Touker Suleyman, very honest & realistic chat about business.

@davidbrown9947 Жыл бұрын

I liked this a lot. Touker has a great and interesting back story.

@willowwren7752 Жыл бұрын

❤Touker Time🎉

@johnmckiernan987 Жыл бұрын

Good man Touker!

@MikeM2000 Жыл бұрын

I am the same age as Touker and agree with every word he says. Too many today seem to think that a university degree entitles them to the proverbial "free lunch". Well, get this a degree is worthless unless you as a person have sorted out your purpose in life. As for those here who have jeered or made little of Touker, ask yourself just how successful are you?

@soaruk3697 Жыл бұрын

Depends entirely on how you measure 'success'......if your so shallow to measure it in monetary terms you are already unsuccessful ............

@MikeM2000 Жыл бұрын

@@soaruk3697 I think you have missed the point completely. Where have I mentioned that 'success' is measured in monetary terms?

@paultweedley2026 Жыл бұрын

Yes and once you atain that degree and probably thirty grand of student debt that's when the hard work starts, some people don't get it.

@markatchison9974 Жыл бұрын

I'm no Touker Suleyman, though I have been involved in many investments for over 40 years (& counting). Money makes money. If you need cash; NEVER go to a bank. Always seek an investor who has a vested interest in helping you. Banks (these days) seem more interested in robbing you.

@paultweedley2026 Жыл бұрын

I kinda agree, my experience of British high street bank's is that they are dispicable creatures and only good for parking money to pay regular bill's.

@MuhammadAdamGhamkoley Жыл бұрын

Came to England without knowing English.... He was five,... he was fresh enough for it to come naturally. I wouldn't see it as him being baffled by foreign sounds.

@wenqing3992 Жыл бұрын

This is how different societies effect people's life.

@bertyaustin Жыл бұрын

I never knew he is actually turkish. His real name is Türker

@StanWeiner Ай бұрын

He's actually Cypriot.

@chharliedowletaskiran216 29 күн бұрын

@@StanWeinerTURKISH Cypriot

@elisabethj.v.beardsell9853 Ай бұрын

Manufacturing textiles for BHS .He will know Phillip Green then!😊 I’m relieved Mr Green didn’t buy M&S!! Kudos to Stuart Rose, ( who in my opinion was the Very Best CEO. He will never be bettered!!

@ProfRoofs Жыл бұрын

Did he offer to do the interview in his office space?

@amousawie Жыл бұрын

In preparation for inflation, improving quality, design, and value will not prevent your company from breaking down. At times of inflation, paying for an alternative is always the option. However, it is not always the case. As a strategist, I say that even with data protection and leveraging shares and reselling them after acquiring the initial capital, your business would still break down. Organisational and firm's future competitiveness has little to do with quality and design. Yes, they are essential as they are the core product, but not the value. Otherwise, if they are the core value, then a life cycle halt will also halt your company. But there are aspects unless addressed, nothing will work. Ominchannel strategy (what is omnichannel?), and downstream optimisation are the first areas to tacke. Then, it is logistics and distribution. Then, there is inventory and VMI strategy. If you do not manage to combine these in a solution specific to a particular company, it will crumble regardless of its size. I can expand greatly on this area and mathematically describe the solution. However, I trust that our colleagues at Oxford already know how to. However. It is a great opportunity to listen to you.

@paultweedley2026 Жыл бұрын

😅 gobbledygook talk 😂

@oninbridders Жыл бұрын

I think he was trying to be polite when he said there are many different types of entrepreneurs. There are really just Entrepreneurs, and there are Founders born with a spoon in their mouth. Touker is a real entrepreneurial grafter.

@ufcmadman732 Жыл бұрын

Touker "Office Space" Suleyman

@davidbrown9947 Жыл бұрын

How disrespectful , Touker offered as much time as they needed, and the host cut them short.

@amousawie Жыл бұрын

An entrepreneur and/or idea? So you are thinking HR or Technical. Please look at what makes a business.

@petersonjimmyjoe Жыл бұрын

Questions seem both rare and particularly uninteresting, I suspect, in direct proportion to their inconvenience

@berns1853 8 ай бұрын

Didnt like him much as a dragon, but after ths video i lke hime a lot. From 5 pounds an hour to 5 pounds a second

@karlmurray4479 Жыл бұрын

I’m going to offer you all of the money……🥳🥳🥳

@bobvilla4383 Жыл бұрын

1.6 million subscribers with 214 views in 26 min? Either the subscriber count is wrong or the views.

@amousawie Жыл бұрын

When is the right time to approach an investor? Good question. But, oh boy. My dear, you have borrowed several times and at different rates, and without conducting the payback analysis and the EOQ model among othe obvious profitability forms, you are not in a good position. The reason is that you are not ensuring how much goes out over a period of time to creditors and your debtors are not balanced. The second most important aspect, is that your demograph is proven to be volatile, and this, I am assuming is the reason why you are borrowing. Your market is very risky and your growth plan is unplanned

@rajjoshi2803 3 ай бұрын

An amazing rags to riches story.

@mrgirthy2111 Жыл бұрын

Touker'how much can we make this in china for?' Sullemen

@MegaJanza Жыл бұрын

Wish he hadn’t kept touching the microphone 😣

@mathewkaye3711 Жыл бұрын

Love to know how successful the guy has been in the cream top texting on his phone whilst an extremely knowledgeable man is sat in front of him...pretty rude and embarrassing

@amousawie Жыл бұрын

Tik To and social media, are also one way to decreasing the value of you offering.

@Vjekoslav-vf3hr Жыл бұрын

Don"t ask me for the 1st mil 😀 What does Bible say about Dragon?

@richardclowes7428 Жыл бұрын

Clealry a very clever guy and also very likeable. I'd have pulled him up on the environmental credentials of his fashion business though...fast fashion is one of the heaviest burdens on our planet.

@paultweedley2026 Жыл бұрын

That would be a right yarn or yawn question 😴😆

@ADE-vl6ye Ай бұрын

If high fashion is better than fast fashion, in the context of what you are talking about, surely, high fashion is also complicit

@richardclowes7428 Ай бұрын

@@ADE-vl6ye 1. Volume of goods sold, frequency of purchase and length of ownership.

@Damimapro Жыл бұрын

TLDR: Capitalist opens factories in countries with poor workers rights then exploits them to make money. Then has money and buys stuff and waits for it to make him more money.

@gbiz4116 Жыл бұрын

And someone sits and puts the world right by sitting in the KZbin comments.

@paultweedley2026 Жыл бұрын

And gives poor worker's a wage to buy food they couldn't afford before, would you rather have communism where no one's allowed to own anything? That's been tried and millions starved to death!

@karimmanaouil9354 Жыл бұрын

What's your solution?

@paultweedley2026 Жыл бұрын

@@karimmanaouil9354 depends what you mean by 'solution ', we live in an imperfect world but there have been millions lifted out of poverty around the world over the last three decades because of capitalism, capitalism isn't perfect but it's effective. My solution would be let more and more poor countries around the world embrace capitalism, free markets and individual freedoms for all citizens, with regulations and the rule of law on exess, greed and exploitation. That would be my utopian solution but it won't happen because there's to many dictators and corrupt officials out there where greed, exess and no regulations in place or proper human rights and rule of law implemented, I'm talking mostly about developing countries here, third world countries.

@karimmanaouil9354 Жыл бұрын

@@paultweedley2026 Well, most countries in the world are capitalist and have a regulated free market, even countries known as communist or socialist like China and France (but many others are not and everything is state-owned and state-controlled. Your best example is the former Soviet Union). However, that's not the issue. In the current world, to make huge profits, you need cheap labor. The billions of dollars Apple makes are only possible because of cheap labor. Now, to have cheap labor, certain countries must always be poor to exploit that. Thus governments like the US and its allies support unfair regimes that stiffle the progress and development of those nations, for the profit of the US businesses. It's bad for their people, but I'm not saying the US should not do that. If the US doesn't do it, someone else will. It is what is, fierce competition. Many other countries have a free market, but suffer from corruption (a lot of the third world, Eastern Europe, Greece, etc) and can't compete with the US for global resources and cheap labor, so they perform badly.