Ndubuisi Egwim, a doctor, describes how he built confidence in business deals. As a medical student at Barts, he looked at a two-bedroom flat in Whitechapel for £111,000, but his father wouldn't lend him half the deposit. That flat later sold for nearly £1,000,000.
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And slowly but surely over the years you develop an inner belief that, you know, I've done all sorts of deals in all sorts of ways now that I can do, I can do one bottle. It's very, very similar. Right. You know, there's a lot of similarities in the way that you do it, but education is important. Back when I, you know, back when I went to Barts, I looked at a flat in Whitechapel that was £111,000 two bed flat in Whitechapel? Yeah. And my dad refused to lend me half of the deposit because I was going halves with a friend. And that flat's now nearly a million quid. But back then in those days, there were things like same day remortgages, so you could buy them cheap and then refinance them the same day, pay your money out that day. Yes. And I didn't know that that was before the global financial crisis. And that knowledge, that knowledge was held by a few, it wasn't held by the many, it wasn't as easily accessible as it is now.