The Sunday Times asks if Texperts CEO Sarah McVittie and CPO Thomas Roberts have what it takes to be the next Bill Gates…

Oliver Bennett reckons that broadband has turned Britain into a nation of entrepreneurs, and reasons that if the entrepreneurs he profiles made it, “so could anyone with a bright idea and a laptop — pensioner, housewife or student.” In this extensive article, Texperts is held up as a business that has managed to tap a previously underutilised labour market who can now work from home via broadband.

Along with a number of other innovative businesses, Texperts receives the following profile:

START-UP: TEXPERTS (QUESTIONS ANSWERED)

Sarah McVittie, 30, and Thomas Roberts, 30, set up the company in 2003 as 82ask, and recently gained investment to give it new life as Texperts. It is based around the text-messaging of questions to experts, who come back with a rapid answer for £1. It is valued at around £7.4m

The article follows Sarah McVittie’s recent receipt of a Businesswoman of the Year award, and her shortlisting as the Rising Star of the Year award at the inaugural MediaGuardian Awards. Mr. Gates, watch out…

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