Jun 7, 2018
Steve Jobs said "You can't connect the dots looking forward. You
can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that
the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in
something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
When serial investor Mark Masiak looked back at the dots in his
life. And when he learned about the struggles that entrepreneurs
like Richard Branson went through. He realised that the steps they
took and the struggles they endured were virtually identical to his
own. The big difference was scale.
Mark came from a working-class background. He thought a good salary
was £20k per year. So when he was running one of the largest
kitchens in Milton Keynes and earning £25K per year. He thought he
had made it.
At the start of his entrepreneurial journey, he never dreamed of
buying Maplin.
And 2 years after he almost lost everything in the acquisition from
hell. He's built a portfolio of 8 companies.
That success has helped Mark to change his mindset and to dream
much, much bigger.
Dreaming bigger is what made Mark try to buy Maplin out of
administration. Maplin was a £250 million turnover company. So
that's quite a leap from the chef thinking that £25K was the end of
the rainbow.
In the end, Mark didn't buy Maplin because there wasn't enough
value to salvage.
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