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At 18 I worked at Ernst & Young full-time, and studied at university part-time. Amazing experience going into the corporate world that young. I finished uni and went to London (to chase a girl if I’m honest). It didn’t hurt that I loved finance, London was great for it and I had the passport. I got onto the CEO track at HSBC where I excelled and by 25 I was earning £300k per year. Meanwhile, Lucy (my wife) could go full time on Bare Kind, roll the dice for us and we got luckier and luckier (funny how hard work over time will do that). We saved hard and got to the point where our investment pot + our entrepreneur-sized salary (read meagre!) was greater than our bills and I took the leap with Lucy in BK. Since 2017 we’ve been saving animals by selling socks. We got lucky (again), nailed Faire the B2B marketplace and became the largest sock brand in the UK on the platform. Taking what we learned at BK, we started Candid Founders to help other businesses win their Category on Faire. Now with the number 1 sock brand in the UK we are going global through distributors and are looking for more. When we aren't busy with the sock business you can find us posting about Candid Founders on YouTube.