Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

The good news about entrepreneurship is that your fate is in your hands. The bad news is that your fate is in your hands!

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

With So Solid, we had overnight success and I bought stupid stuff with my money, I bought a 35k car while I was still living in a council flat.

I grew up pretty poor - not poor compared with people in India or Africa who are really poor, but poor enough so that the worry about money really cast a pall over your life a lot of the time.

If I hadn't given my money away, I'd have had more than anyone else on the planet.