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If only the full 'background' was mentioned: http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/lisa_maxwell_s_life_in_the_cotswolds_1_4122389 http://ww

If only the full 'background' was mentioned: http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/lisa_maxwell_s_life_in_the_cotswolds_1_4122389 http://www.cotswoldlife.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/li...

planetjones 10y ago
Ok so her dad is Paul Jessup: who owns the Great British Teddy Bear Company and Big Red Bus English, offering language tuition to children in China. so not quite a rags to riches story, but she's still got a website that fills a need and is able to monetise. A lot more successful than many silicon valley start-ups :)
- deong 10y ago
  More successful by my standards (and yours, I guess), but not by the standards silicon valley uses. I assume lots of objectively stupid businesses are run by people who are capable of doing something profitable, but profitable isn't the goal.
  - cLeEOGPw 10y ago
    In anywhere else where people don't throw billions into moonshots it is the goal. Nobody forces you to work on your small business all the time, you create it, you hire someone to do it, you collect money. If your only goal is to lose as much money as possible, as that means "pre-profit", then good luck.
- bbctol 10y ago
  And plenty of Silicon Valley startups have rich/well-connected parents involved as well.
- bshimmin 10y ago
  I think her mother is more famous actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress)
wtbob 10y ago
I daresay it's a tautology that having connected parents helps one in life. Thanks for the fuller picture.
gthtjtkt 10y ago
Reminds me of an old joke: > A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old man fingered his worsted wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."
ryandrake 10y ago
Thank you. "Random working class girl with schoolteacher parents succeeds as an entrepreneur" is a very different story than "Already rich girl with an internationally well-connected businessman father and famous mother succeeds as an entrepreneur". Kind of changes everything.

planetjones 10y ago

Ok so her dad is Paul Jessup: who owns the Great British Teddy Bear Company and Big Red Bus English, offering language tuition to children in China. so not quite a rags to riches story, but she's still got a website that fills a need and is able to monetise. A lot more successful than many silicon valley start-ups :)

deong 10y ago
More successful by my standards (and yours, I guess), but not by the standards silicon valley uses. I assume lots of objectively stupid businesses are run by people who are capable of doing something profitable, but profitable isn't the goal.
- cLeEOGPw 10y ago
  In anywhere else where people don't throw billions into moonshots it is the goal. Nobody forces you to work on your small business all the time, you create it, you hire someone to do it, you collect money. If your only goal is to lose as much money as possible, as that means "pre-profit", then good luck.
bbctol 10y ago
And plenty of Silicon Valley startups have rich/well-connected parents involved as well.
bshimmin 10y ago
I think her mother is more famous actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress)

wtbob 10y ago

I daresay it's a tautology that having connected parents helps one in life. Thanks for the fuller picture.

gthtjtkt 10y ago

Reminds me of an old joke: > A young man asked an old rich man how he made his money. The old man fingered his worsted wool vest and said, "Well, son, it was 1932. The depth of the Great Depression. I was down to my last nickel. I invested that nickel in an apple. I spent the entire day polishing the apple and, at the end of the day, I sold the apple for ten cents. The next morning, I invested those ten cents in two apples. I spent the entire day polishing them and sold them at 5 pm for 20 cents. I continued this system for a month, by the end of which I'd accumulated a fortune of $1.37. Then my wife's father died and left us two million dollars."

ryandrake 10y ago

Thank you. "Random working class girl with schoolteacher parents succeeds as an entrepreneur" is a very different story than "Already rich girl with an internationally well-connected businessman father and famous mother succeeds as an entrepreneur". Kind of changes everything.