“Looking back, the seeds of my business were sown in my childhood. Not only did I spend every spare minute making things – soft toys, clothes, jewellery – I was also determined to be financially independent as soon as I could. I got my first Saturday job at the age of 13 and kept it until I went to university at the age of 17. I always worked hard, and I always earned my own money.
Writing about the retail sector for the city pages of the Times in London during the late 1980s retail boom and interviewing FTSE100 chairmen and CEOs gave me fascinating insight into the world of retail and business. When I started my own business, I knew it would be an ecommerce business, digitalising and applying automation to the selling the process to reach an engaged customer base without the filter of retail buyers who didn’t really cherish our products in the way we did.
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