In 1999 the venture capital (VC) bible, Red Herring magazine, named Craig Johnson as one of the 10 key people who could ensure success for a start-up company. Not bad for a middle-aged lawyer who, in his own words, “stumbled onto the internet”.

“I could not have told you what the internet was back in 1993,” confesses the quietly spoken 56-year-old who founded the groundbreaking Venture Law Group (VLG) a decade ago.