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Mark Pearson (born 1980) is CEO and founder of Markco Media, a European discount network.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=HushHush Jumps On The Daily Deals Bandwagon: Designer Fashion, Interiors, Gardening, Food & Drink )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mark Pearson: Britain's coupon king )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Third time lucky )〕 Markco Media is the parent company of MyVoucherCodes.co.uk. In June 2014, Pearson sold Markco Media to the publicly listed mobile payments firm Monitise plc in a reported £55m deal. Pearson is an active investor and mentor. The Sunday Times Rich List 2011 valued his fortune at £60m ($100m). ==Career== Prior to launching MyVoucherCodes.co.uk in 2006, Pearson worked as a chef at Claridge's in London, under celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. When Pearson left school aged 16 he took up a place at a local catering college. He entered and won a nationwide cooking competition,〔http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasperhamill/2014/08/31/the-rags-to-riches-story-of-britains-thriftiest-multi-millionaire〕 leading to his employment by Claridge’s. Pearson then went on to manage his own chain of restaurants after taking out a small loan from his grandmother. Aged 23, Pearson started Roses by Design, a company that sold fresh rose petals with tiny messages written upon them.〔http://www.newbusiness.co.uk/articles/entrepreneurs/third-time-lucky-mark-pearson〕 It was whilst running this business that Pearson learnt about affiliate marketing. Pearson was approached by Inter Flora and Flowers Direct, which both asked if they could put discount code banners for their businesses on his web pages, and then pay him a commission for each resulting sale.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29612233〕 Soon he found he was earning more money in commissions than he was selling his own roses. My Voucher Codes was launched in November 2006, when Pearson was 26, as the UK's first such discount offers website. He paid £300 for the first version of the site. He ran the site from his bedroom until 2009, when he opened an office in Croydon. He moved the business to a central London location in 2011, where the business now employs more than 100 people.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark Pearson (entrepreneur)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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