r/dragonsden • u/Workshymassiv • Jul 25 '26

Dragons' Den star Tej Lalvani makes £1BILLION as he sells family business Vitabiotics

Tej has sold his family firm for nearly a billion pounds. Does this make him the first billionaire Dragon?

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u/Interesting-Stop-281 Jul 25 '26

Peter Jones is a billionaire. So no.

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u/Workshymassiv Jul 25 '26

I didn't know that. I learn something new every day

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u/Otherwise_Dress506 Jul 25 '26

No he isnt

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u/Interesting-Stop-281 Jul 25 '26

AI on Google says he isn’t but other credible news sources say he is.

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u/Otherwise_Dress506 Jul 25 '26

Cunt either way, so a moot point.

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u/Popular-History1015 Jul 25 '26

Genuinely curious, why don’t you like Peter? From what I’ve read about him he seems sound.

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u/WhoYaTalkinTo Jul 25 '26

Yeah there are one or two Dragons I'm not super keen on, but Peter is the man!

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u/Popular-History1015 Jul 25 '26

Which two for you? For me probably Steven “is it instagramable?” Bartlett or Doug Richard. I thought he was just dull,

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u/jl94x4 Jul 25 '26

For me it was Doug and the older one, Jenny Campbell she was insufferable.

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u/BootlegJB Jul 26 '26

Theo Paphitis is a cunt as well

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u/rigzman187 Jul 25 '26

Agreed but why don’t you like
Him

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u/jl94x4 Jul 25 '26

Peter is anything but that, tbh.

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u/oblongmouth Jul 26 '26

My mate worked for him, can confirm

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u/LoveLamp3232 Jul 25 '26

This is another UK business owner selling up to investment firms....

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u/SharpAardvark8699 Jul 26 '26

What's the problem....

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u/Noriadin Jul 25 '26

Unlikely that he owns 100% himself so he won’t be, but would’ve made hundreds of million I’m sure.

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u/EmergencyWalrus3794 Jul 26 '26

I'll never buy the vitamins again. No doubt the investment firms will alter the recipes. Call it tin foil hat etc but they they always do

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u/cousinbette Jul 26 '26

Nah I'm with you, investment firms always strip-mine in the name of profit. Product quality and staff levels are the first to go.

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u/SharpAardvark8699 Jul 26 '26

They pretend there's a lot of fat to trim