Both were at boarding school and came from wealthy families. Doubt they needed any special courses on how to get stuff done.

Hello!
Me over here in the corner
Third generation to run the business
Yep, I lost it too

I did some work with Young Enterprise in a few schools in Swindon when i was with Intel, was pretty good fun - we set up a network with laptops etc and the kids had to work together using email and stuff to simulate a real world business environment.

My uncles took over a firm that my grandfather had been running until he retired – a totally messed it up. That despite private educations and getting further money from their father to try to help out when they made a mess. One was an accountant – I never have worked out what the other did.

My mother has always rather resented that, since she she never had such monies herself and, in his will, they still all got the same.

Families, eh?

It's no wonder people nowadays build businesses up and sell them on, rather than pass them down, really, which it could be said is contributing to the dominance of corporate firms rather than small independents.

But that's for a different thread