Timo Boldt

And, you know, the types of restaurants, the quality, the standards, even the produce you can get.

And so over time, I fell in love with London and the food scene and the restaurants and the choice.

And the wider UK.

But it wasn't an initial love affair.

So how did this idea sort of develop in your mind from working in a hedge fund?

So before I started working, I did my senior high school in the U.S.,

And my godparents are hardcore entrepreneurs who have built dozens of companies, small companies, ice cream places, a restaurant, an organic supermarket, a vineyard, these types of businesses.

So they found a host family for me.

This was post 9-11 in 2001.

Host families didn't want to take German students in.

My godmother hustled and she convinced her neighbors to take in this German kid who couldn't speak English.

Right.

And I got to play American football and I firsthand saw my godparents kind of have this amazing lifestyle and have all these businesses.

And I kind of felt like, you know, at age 16, I want to do what they are doing versus my dad who was kind of slaving away and working really long hours.

Well, he worked for a corporation in Germany.

He did, yeah.

So you sort of thought, oh, this entrepreneurial thing looks quite good.

I should get into this.

They were sort of multiple entrepreneurs.

I mean, they had endless businesses.