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Well you cannot say that you were not warned! I have exposed time and time again on this website how the business career of one series Dragons Den flop Piers Linney has been marked by serial failure. The loathsome self-publicist Linney said floating Outsourcery on AIM at 110p in May 2013 was the highlight of his career. Today Linney has admitted that his company is almost toast. What fucking brilliant news.
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Comments
Temptress
I reckon he did two series. Apart from that OUT has been a shambolic cock up since flotation.
Outsourcery survivor
The least surprising news of the year. The only way to fail to make money from the cloud over the last 5 years is if you are incompetent. Having worked for him, I can confirm, Piers Linney is indeed incompetent and has no business being anywhere near a tech company. Just before I left Outsourcery 3 years ago, we had an all-company meeting. It was clear that sales were not what we had hoped and that costs were becoming a problem. Piers opened that meeting by telling us all about the new Maserati he had just bought. What an absolute arse.