Jinesh Vohra

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James Reed: all about business · 65. From Dragon’s Den to Startup Success | Jinesh Vohra · 9 Feb 2026 podcast

Yeah, sure.

So if you go back to my grandfather, so to give you some context, he grew up in rural India in a state called Gujarat on a farm and at 12 years old decided to leave the farm without his dad's blessing.

So he had a little bit of a disagreement and he went with his uncle to East Africa on a boat to essentially start working.

and he started working in construction as a laborer, very young, but these things happen, it was very common.

As a 12-year-old?

Yeah, as a 12-year-old with his uncle and then started kind of picking up the trade.

And he did that for a long time, but he obviously learned the trade very well and started to know people that were in that.

Which country was this?

This was in Kenya.

And essentially he then in his early 30s decided that he would start his own construction company and then use some of the people that he knew and then kind of get projects and do the work himself.

And I mean, it was great for him because they're obviously able to kind of build wealth.

And that wealth was enough for him to send back to India and give my dad, as an example, a very good education.

And so my dad went to boarding school, grew up learning English in India, which at the time was only for people who were a little bit more affluent.

And then my dad decided to come to the UK, literally with five pounds in his pocket,

because there was the opportunity to kind of do so.

And again, when he first started, he didn't really have a lot of connections.

It was very difficult to get a job.

And I remember when I was very young.

So in London.

And what they typically do is they find a house that someone's living there and they will just all kind of live there and bunk up.

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