I could have been rich! Biggest financial mistakes

[rememberitalltoowell]

And how you come to terms with them?

I turned down a really well paid role for something else that didn't turn out as planned, and could only find much lower paying roles afterwards. When I work out what that decision cost me over the course of my career, we're talking hundreds of thousands!

Yes - that’s the joke 😂

I doubt the return would be quite that much (or that he made £2.3bn on an investment.)

Until you get old!

Did you approach any other investors?

This was 2002, it wasn’t like it now where you can go online and find angel investors, attend pitch events and join accelerators. I think dragons den had just started but that wasn’t the right approach.
I don’t come from a background where I knew people who had money. I did try and get help from business link (a very old government agency set up to help SMEs), but again they were all about helping secure bank loans but only if you had capital or collateral for security. I remember hitting lots of brick walls and feeling quite hopeless.

I did try really hard but ultimately I didn’t have the right connections and in the end I had to focus on my day job and raising my kids!