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Changes with Annie Macmanus cover image

Patrick Cox

Changes with Annie Macmanus

CHAPTER

The Importance of Getting an Investor

When did it stop feeling good? Can you remember? Was there a point? Yeah, first of all, business decisions. In the late 90s, we're opening one or two stores a year. And then these fashion supergroups arrive out of nowhere. So I didn't even have an overdraft at the bank at this period. My company just functioned. And we had money in the bank and we did things. We had no access to financing, leveraging, anything of the sort. Instead of wanting an investor, all of a sudden we needed an investor because we had to replace an investor. "My shotgun wedding got kind of thrown into bed with this Chinese businessman"

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