Monty Munford (born 4 June 1961) is an

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-born

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Career

Munford worked for several years as a motorbike dispatch-rider in London, before retraining as a journalist at the

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in 1998.

Writing

From 2015-2019 Munford was a tech columnist for ''

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'' in New York and ''

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'' in London. He has also contributed to

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, ''

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'', ''

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,'' ''

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''.

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, ''

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,'' ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He has a Google News-verified tech blog, Mob76 Outlook. He has interviewed

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co-founder

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, and

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. In August 2019, Munford reported that he had been defrauded of £25,000 in cryptocurrency, mainly

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and

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, when his private keys were stolen from his

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account. Munford has also written and self-published The Dust Bowls of Maturity.

Business

In 2005 Munford joined

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games publisher and distributor Player X having previously worked for

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testing house Babel Media. Munford left Player X to devote his time to connecting UK and Indian mobile content providers working with in Paramount and

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, as well as to pursue acting in Bollywood. In 2011, he returned to the UK and set up his own consultancy Mob76. Mob76 works with companies to help them raise money, raise their profile, connect with the right network and eventually exit via acquisition.

Acting

Munford has acted in two Bollywood films: as a 1930s British officer for the

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film ''

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'', and as a

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gangster in the

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film '' Dum Maro Dum''.

References

External links

Mob76 Outlook
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