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Speaker 1: I'm Charlie Pellett. Stocks moving Laura today falling from near

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Speaker 1: Taking stock with pim box in Gatlin Hays on Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Radio technology in the United States compared to perhaps the

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Speaker 1: United Kingdom. Here to tell us more is Stephen Kelly.

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Speaker 1: He is the chief executive of say Age and he

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Speaker 1: can be followed on Twitter at s Kelly CEO. And

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Speaker 1: the Sage is the world's largest accountancy software supplier. It

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Speaker 1: process is more than a billion pace slips every year

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Speaker 1: and it also provides help to more than three million

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Speaker 1: businesses in more than twenty countries around the world. Stephen Kelly,

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Speaker 1: thanks for being here. Great to be here. Now, I

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Speaker 1: didn't check. Are you wearing the lime green socks? You

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Speaker 1: got it? Oh, the lime green lining to the jacket.

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Speaker 1: Tell people about the lime green and why that's important,

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Speaker 1: and then maybe just give us a hint of what

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Speaker 1: you just came from a performance in front of I

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Speaker 1: think fifteen thousand people in Chicago. Yeah, we um thanks

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Speaker 1: for asking him. And we've just come from Chicago, which

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Speaker 1: is the Stage Summit, which is the largest conference on

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Speaker 1: the planet for entrepreneurs, and we had fifteen thousand entrepreneurs.

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Speaker 1: We had people like Gwyneth Poultro, Eshton Kutcher, Richard Branson

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Speaker 1: and a whole host of other sort of celebrities. Speakers,

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Speaker 1: ran a sharp tank session, so quite a lot of

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Speaker 1: fun and father that was obviously the Sage brand is green,

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Speaker 1: lime green, shining green, and I've got a suit here

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Speaker 1: and completely on brand on message at the Stage Summits.

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Speaker 1: So it was really good as well to have Bloomberg

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Speaker 1: Radio there and people like Curry also Blomberg Advantage well

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Speaker 1: even telling list. There's a little bit more about safe.

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Speaker 1: There's so many companies now that do online accounting and

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Speaker 1: services for company. There's a lot of companies that have various, um,

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Speaker 1: you know, services for entrepreneurs, for small and medium enterprises.

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Speaker 1: What makes you unique? What is it that's different or

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Speaker 1: what are you trying to do for entrepreneurs other companies

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Speaker 1: are doing. Yeah, I think there's probably a couple of assets, Kathleen.

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Speaker 1: One is the essence of what SAGE is the digital

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Speaker 1: heartbeat of the small and medium business economy, and therefore

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Speaker 1: we look after all the stuff around the movement of money,

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Speaker 1: you know, collecting cash from customers, pay and supplants, plan

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Speaker 1: and pain employees, and you know, the what we're seeing

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Speaker 1: through the sort of digital revolution and particularly the their

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Speaker 1: absolute amazing capability of smartphones and the internet is allowing

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Speaker 1: entrepreneurs to run their business from the part of their hand,

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Speaker 1: just like we do as consumers. So you know, whatever apps,

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Speaker 1: you personalize it to your smartphone, your iPhone or the

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Speaker 1: Samsung and we're seeing through stage software now that same

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Speaker 1: capability for an entrepreneurs. And it's a very exciting time

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Speaker 1: really to make sure that our entrepreneurs get awesome technology

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Speaker 1: because these guys, just remember, they create two thirds of

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Speaker 1: the jobs across the USA. All that I've just come

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Speaker 1: up from Atlanta and just in that city, of all

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Speaker 1: jobs are just created by tech startups. So it's just

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Speaker 1: a vibrant time for the US economy through startups, through

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Speaker 1: small and medium businesses, and these are the true heroes

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Speaker 1: of the economy. So we do play a significant role

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Speaker 1: as being their voice and their champion as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: before you got the stage, I know that you were

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Speaker 1: the chief operating Officer for the UK government, the senior

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Speaker 1: executive responsible for I T digital programs, small business as

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Speaker 1: communities previously at Oracle, Kordient, micro Focus. What is different

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Speaker 1: at a technology company based in Britain versus perhaps a

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Speaker 1: United States. Yeah, I guess. I went to the teaching

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Speaker 1: I think there was a blueprint that was established in

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Speaker 1: technology company. A lot of it about conviction, confidence and

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Speaker 1: US companies think about how do we go global, how

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Speaker 1: So I think it is a time where there's unprecedented

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Speaker 1: opportunity for tech companies, both in the US and the UK.

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Speaker 1: And the acceleration and the speed of technology disruption we

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Speaker 1: see it as consumers every day. I think ten years

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Speaker 1: been created in the last year just amazing and because

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Speaker 1: and there's two couple of sides of this one as

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Speaker 1: well as be a tech company, you know, start attach company.

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Speaker 1: Another one is used technology and of course this transition,

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Speaker 1: you're trying to help people get on the cloud. How

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Speaker 1: many small medium businesses aren't on the cloud? And why

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Speaker 1: are Stage making such a big pusher? Yeah, probably lessen

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Speaker 1: the smaller medium businesses are on the cloud, and actually

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Speaker 1: a lot of smaller medium is its Candidlycathleen still use

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Speaker 1: like spreadsheese and word processes to issue invoices. So through

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Speaker 1: the power of UM, I think the smartphone, we can

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Speaker 1: give them the capability through the part of their hand

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Speaker 1: just to use technology very intuitively to run their business.

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Speaker 1: You know, in the back of a cab, tuition invoice

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Speaker 1: need to get a revolving credit extension, all these sort

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Speaker 1: of things they can manage from their smartphone just as

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Speaker 1: they would as consumers. And I think what Sage has

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Speaker 1: done over the last couple of years is leap frog

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Speaker 1: anybody in the marketplace in terms of really exciting technology.

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Speaker 1: SAVEE Summit a product called peg which is a chatbot

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Speaker 1: and it's machine learning AI. You know, it's it's kind

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Speaker 1: of gobbled gooop, probably to people who are not in technology.

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Speaker 1: But what does it mean. It means that you can

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Speaker 1: sit on your smartphone and you can from Facebook, Messenger

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Speaker 1: the smart as sistant called PEG to your accountant engine

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Speaker 1: and say you can say just how much cash have

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Speaker 1: tells you immediately you know how much, how many invoices

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Speaker 1: of the outstanding? All these sort of questions you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: where you're typically on the move, you know, literally in

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Speaker 1: the palm of your hand, and it's very exciting time

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Speaker 1: to technology. Well, I wish we could play some video,

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Speaker 1: but this is radio. Have you taken a stage at

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Speaker 1: the Stage Senate with the rock band The Killers taking

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Speaker 1: a microphone? We'll have to We'll have to be there

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Speaker 1: PM the next time to Tee mckelly does that. Stephen,

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Speaker 1: thank you for joining us today. Thank you very much. Kathleen,

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Speaker 1: thanks to he is the CEO of Stage. I'm Kathleen Hayes.

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