The growth of Hargreaves Lansdown from a company launched in the spare bedroom of Peter Hargreaves' Bristol home in 1981 to a FTSE 100 business has always been pitched by the founders as a tale of a pair of underdogs from the English regions taking on the London establishment and winning.
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