Ollie Piotrowski spent his teenage years cycling an hour to work earning £20 a day as a roofer to scrimp and save enough from his job to buy his first property.
Developing and re-selling his first terraced house that he bought for £30,000 would set into motion what has now become a £2m a year property business.
Now Ollie is celebrating the ten year anniversary of his investment and property development company Pinnacle Holdings - and he's reflecting on exactly how he got to where he is today.
Ollie did it all without family money or direct access to investors at the start - instead teaching himself and learning the hard way how to become a successful entrepreneur.
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