It’s fairly well documented to be honest.
He was a bright kid who did well at school and got a good degree in chemical engineering at university.
After working for a while he purchased under performing, loss making businesses from large companies
such as ICI etc and turned them around. He didn’t sell them he kept them as a group.
He then bet the farm buying another business for £40 million having to remortgage his house and risk his
life savings on it. He very nearly went bust doing it and survived by the skin of his teeth. As they say the
rest is history.
A genuine success story of a working class kid who worked his balls off, risked everything he had and succeeded.