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... Denise Coates bought the domain name bet365 on eBay in 2001 for £20,000 and began operating a dot betting business from a portable cabin in Stoke.

Mrs Coates completed the move from the portakabin office, borrowing £15m from the Royal Bank of Scotland secured on her family‘s estate of betting shops. And the move paid off.

Mrs Coates is now the majority shareholder in Bet365, a global company which has benefited from tighter regulations on the industry in other countries. Last year, the former University of Sheffield student who graduated with a first class degree, was paid £265million.

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