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CO-FOUNDER OF THE 'BIG SHORT BREAK' TRAVEL COMPANY
MY BEST ...
...was leaving the comparative security of the City in 2002 to pursue the 'big short break idea' that is Original Travel. I ended up squeezed in my spare room with my two fellow-founders. Going from the glamour of the City to that was quite a move, particularly as Sars and 9/11 had just happened.
We started trading in 2003, so the war in Iraq was going on and the global financial markets were taking a turn for the worse. We pumped all our start-up capital, which was...