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Find. Build. Sell.
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Find. Build. Sell.

by Stephen J. Hunt
March 2022
Beginner content levelBeginner
224 pages
4h 38m
English
Wiley
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Introduction

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it.

Epictetus

My name is Hunt. Stephen Hunt. Clearly, my ancestors were hunters, and so am I. My name reflects perfectly what I do — so much so, I bought a dog, a German shorthaired pointer (Snoop, on the left), in honour of that ancestry. He is one of the best hunting dogs you can find. I bought him because he reminds me of who I am, and what I was destined to be.

Photograph of two dogs.

Snoop, on the left, the best hunting dog you can find.

In short, I am a Hunter. I track down good pubs that have the potential to be great. I round up the team who can help me restore them to their former glory. I sniff out the best deals to maximise efficiencies. I then deliver them to my investors, and do it all again. I'll stop with the dog analogy … you get the drift.

Hunt by name, hunt by nature

If you believe in the science of epigenetics, I am aptly named. Now epigenetics may sound like a depilatory tool you'd see for sale on The Shopping Channel, but it's the study of how behaviours and environment affect the way our genes work. Interestingly, a study discovered that 30 per cent of white men were more likely to match their career to their surname. (This is why we see Mr McBurney become a fire chief, Mr Brain become a neurosurgeon or Mr Soo Yoo a lawyer — all of whom are real people, by the way, according to the website ‘boredpanda'.) ...

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