Exclusive video: Millionaire Deirdre Bounds on why entrepreneurs should be weird

Deirdre Bounds

If anyone knows how to succeed in business, it's Deirdre Bounds. Setting up a company for people wanting to teach English overseas, she sold it 10 years later to travel industry giant First Choice for £20m. Given her experience, Bounds, a judge at The Pitch 2009, is well placed to discuss what makes a successful entrepreneur as she does in our exclusive video below.

 

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