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Chris Hulatt left a two-and-a-half-year grad program at Mercury Asset Management with cofounders Simon Rogerson and Guy Myles. The trio launched Octopus Investments using $25,000 of savings without investors or plans. They built the firm into a thirteen-point-two-billion-dollar investment company by rejecting traditional corporate roles.
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