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"As payment we had to milk the cows and spray some weeds," Nick says.
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So at 18, Nick also dropped out of university and shortly after boarded a plane to Hong Kong with then 22-year-old Mat. They had "made some À̹ÌÅ×À̼DZ¸¸Å´ëÇà À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǼîÇÎ À̹ÌÅ×À̼ÇÄ¿½ºÅÒ±Þ=À̹ÌÅ×À̼DZ¸¸Å´ëÇà À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǼîÇÎ À̹ÌÅ×À̼ÇÄ¿½ºÅÒ±Þ contacts on the internet" but were otherwise vastly ill-equipped - unable to speak the language and short on business savvy.
With a $20,000 loan from their parents, they bought an injection moulding machine, and set up a small factory in Guangzhou, China. Zuru was up and running.