Simon Woodroffe, Founder of YO
Britain has always been a nation of entrepreneurs from the spice traders of the 18th century to our colonial empire of the 19th century to the export of The Beatles and Mary Quant in the 20th century.
We are entering a renaissance of entrepreneurialism now in the 21st century, and we hold in our hands a purse of creativity and invention that is inspiring young and old to break out of the manacles of traditional employment and live out the dreams of fulfilled lives through enterprise and self employment. Enterprising Britain rides this wave, that, fueled by the following winds of government, television and a new popular culture that celebrates success and even allows and embraces failure, will take us crashing through the surf onto a glorious beach of personal and national pride and fulfillment.