From £0 to £4 Billion: How Richard Harpin Built & Sold HomeServe

Jul 5, 2025

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James sits down with Richard Harpin, the founder of HomeServe as he shares insights on about how he built and sold a £4.1 billion business. In this hour long interview, Richard tells us the mindset behind his entrepreneurial success, how he scaled HomeServe from the ground up, and the key decisions that helped him exit at over £4 billion.

Find out more from Richard Harpin here:https://www.richardharpin.comHow to Make a Billion in Nine Steps: Simple Lessons for Making Extraordinary Wealth:https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/034944644X

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Welcome to the Business Broadcast Podcast! Each week James brings on the show an entrepreneur who shares their biggest challenges and struggles in business. James coaches the business owner through these challenges by asking those hard hitting questions in order to get to the bottom of these problems and help the business owner soar to success.

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My name is James Sinclair and I'm the founder and CEO of The Fabadousa Group of Companies. I started building my business when I was just 16 as a family entertainer after that I built up an entertainment agency, then moved into building a leisure and day nursery businesses. Today we operate a £50 million business which includes leisure, childcare, outdoor attractions, commercial property, arts and crafts manufacturing as well as one of the UK’s oldest Ice cream companies; The Rossi Ice Cream Company.