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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 qu
by 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 agoMore 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 agoIn 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 agoAnd plenty of Silicon Valley startups have rich/well-connected parents involved as well.
- bshimmin 10y agoI think her mother is more famous actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Maxwell_(actress)