How Tobias Kormind shook up the diamond trade

Entrepreneur Tobias Kormind took his love of diamonds online to offer high-quality jewellery at a discount.

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Many entrepreneurs follow in the business footsteps of their families. For Tobias Kormind, the co-founder of online jeweller 77 Diamonds, the defining moment in his career came when his sister married into a well-known diamond family. Whenever Kormind, now 43, went to visit her, he was invited into the company's office and given the chance to look at the rare stones.

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