How to lose $1 million and risk it all again

“I ran CLVII for about a year, and then the Syrian civil war escalated. Bombs started going off in Beirut. The Saudis and Emirati tourists – my customers – they went home and didn’t come back. I was stuck with a lot of expensive couture and no money”

“My uncles felt I had been born with a silver spoon in my mouth and that I would amount to nothing outside the family business. I had a burning desire to prove them wrong and show the world I could make it on my own”