
When he was just 17, Ben Way made a life-changing business deal worth £25m, making him one of Britain’s youngest
self-made millionaires.
Six
years later, venture capitalists pulled the plug on his company and he lost
everything - although he has since rebuilt his fortune.
Ben's
childhood was blighted by dyslexia. A teacher told him he would never read or write
and that he would never make anything of himself. 'I was seven years old. Those
words made me want to give up completely. They really haunted me for years to
come,' he recalls.