// AO.com co-founder Alan Latchford has died at the age of 61.
// Latchford left the online retailer due to poor health in 2006
AO.com co-founder Alan Latchford has passed away at the age of 61.
Latchford left the online appliances and electricals retailer due to poor health in 2006.
The company, originally named Appliances Online was started as a bet.
Latchford famously made a £1 bet with chief executive John Roberts who said “Like all the best businesses, it started in the pub,”
“It was Christmas Eve and I was having a drink with Alan Latchford, who is the L of DRL. He bet me a pound I wouldn’t do it,” Roberts told Retail Week.
Roberts said wasn’t aware of the internet when he started the company but he teamed up with Latchford who had experience building websites and created what would become AO.com.
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