Thinking out of the box was more than just business jargon for James Caan in his early days in recruitment. Escaping the confines of a room in Pall Mall the size of a shoebox was the first goal of the 23-year-old who yearned to prove to his father that he could make his own way in life without joining the family business manufacturing leather garments.
“In a funny sort of a way everybody has a different reason why they are focused and for me, I was so desperate to get out of that broom cupboard I set myself a goal that the minute I made my first sale I had to move out of that office because I wanted so desperately to have an office with a window. Looking back from that tiny, tiny broom cupboard in Pall Mall to waking up and running truly global businesses was a tremendous sense of achievement,” he said.
Today, Caan, who is a regular in the Sunday Times Rich List, backs his own hunches and money on BBC’s Dragons Den by listening to the dreams and aspirations of wannabe entrepreneurs who hope to make the big time like him
Jane Hamilton
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http://www.room54.co.uk
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