Roy Thomson, Canadian founder of what is now Thomson Reuters and the 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was essentially bankrupt in his mid-to-late 30s, having failed

Roy Thomson, Canadian founder of what is now Thomson Reuters and the 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet, was essentially bankrupt in his mid-to-late 30s, having failed in a number of enterprises. At age 40, he bought the first of the hundreds of newspapers he eventually would own because it was downstairs from his fledgling radio station. http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-men-who-made-the-scotsman-part-two-1-718332 http://www.scotsman.com/news/the-men-who-made-the-scotsman-p...