EP 27: The Skills That Made You Rich Are the Ones That Will Lose It All - Scott Picken
Scott Picken was seventeen when his father went bankrupt.
The man had done everything the system asks of you. School, university, chartered accountant, financial director of a listed company. He followed the instructions exactly, and it ended the way it ended. His son has spent the thirty years since working from the assumption that the instructions were wrong.
Years later, Scott found a block of forty-eight apartments in Wimbledon, trading at a sixty per cent discount, cash flow positive from day one. A genuine no-brainer, except for the ten million pounds. He could not get anyone to work…
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