The King has visited entrepreneurs during a visit to a Tech and Innovation showcase at Nairobi Garage. There he was reunited with a business owner he once presented an Ashden Award to almost two decades ago, helping him kick-start his career. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:23 You ought to see this great portrait of yourself, sir.
00:25 Looking absolutely gorgeous.
00:27 [Laughter]
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00:40 Hi, nice to meet you.
00:41 Nice to meet you.
00:42 Nice to meet you.
00:43 We actually met 20 years ago and you gave me an Ashton Award.
00:47 I don't expect you to remember it.
00:49 20 years ago?
00:50 Well, 18 years ago.
00:52 Yeah, yeah.
00:53 So that helped to kick start my cook stove career.
00:55 So since then I've been very busy, so thanks for the nudge.
00:58 I'm so glad we helped.
00:59 It did, yeah.
01:00 Well, since then I created the world's largest modern cook stove company.
01:03 That was when I saw you was the early version.
01:06 Yeah, yeah, it was like a big like institutional stove we were doing.
01:09 Oh, you remember that, okay.
01:10 I do, yeah.
01:11 What we are doing is we are enabling them to get this sort of opportunity.
01:15 He called me last week, he was with you for the Prince's Trust.
01:19 Advisory.
01:20 On the advisory.
01:21 Yeah, so he saw you couldn't come here, but he's very happy that you're visiting us.
01:24 visiting us.