‘I built my software empire from a Stoke council house’
Entrepreneur Stephen Parker describes his quest to build a software empire from Stoke. …
Stephen Parker was passionate about coding from early childhood and dreamed of creating a software company like his idol, Bill Gates.
But he was also very attached to his home town of Stoke-On-Trent. So it became his life’s mission to create a ‘Silicon Stoke’ software giant.
Produced, filmed and edited by Dougal Shaw
This video was created as part of We are Stoke-on-Trent, a BBC project with the people of the city to tell us the stories which matter to them.
This video is also part of a strand called CEO Secrets. You can also follow the series on the BBC News app by adding the topic ‘CEO Secrets’ in My News.
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