What's the cornerstone of a partnership with Sage?
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Is that relationship based?
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With Sage, it was how do we grow together?
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How do we find client solutions to fix people's problems?
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We need to be solving problems for entrepreneurs, for business owners, and not just giving a set of financial numbers.
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BDO was born from entrepreneurship.
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so that's actually the core, the backbone of what BDO is having now.
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Being a multinational business that's grown into 163 countries.
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It started off as entrepreneurial.
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So that's why we enjoy working with entrepreneurs, because we've taken businesses from being a small business that starts in a family all the way to being listed and having an ipo.
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When we looked at this partnership, we said we need a partner that is not necessarily just looking at the numbers, but also looking at a shared vision.
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We spoke to Sage, say we can take a business that's sitting on cloud and move them to intact and have Sage business partners come in and we can also grow it all the way.
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So we could see that synergy of say you're taking a business from different points and, and we want to grow them together and take them to a level from inception all the way to being an international business.
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We not looking at just licenses, but we're looking at the scaling of business.
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Because if Sage is growing, BDO is growing, the entrepreneur is growing.
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You're now getting to a point where the conversations we're having are, at a different level.
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It's future looking.
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How do we scale?
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Where do we need to scale and is it actually going to be sustainable?
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Every business owner has a story and every business wants to tell their story.
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When you look at Sage, you look at video.
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We are characters in your book.
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We're shaping how your story would look like and we're ensuring that we share new success and that's important for us.