I was sacked from my job at 21 – now I’m a millionaire aged 35 after bingeing BBC show… it all started with trainers
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A FORMER bank worker who was made redundant became a millionaire after binge-watching a BBC show. Chris Bunn, 35, was forced out of Barclays in his early 20s and "vowed to never be at the mercy of a job loss again". He had been working there since he was 16, even holding down part-time hours while studying at university before joining the customer retention department full-time.
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But when his job was outsourced abroad, instead of finding another position, Chris decided to begin buying and flipping trainers and clothes. He would target popular branded trainers and sell them online for double the price at a time when the industry "wasn't as big as it is now".
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Chris then sold his side hustle for £10,000 before setting up a digital marketing company in 2014, prior to the saturation of social media agencies, and Facebook and Instagram ads. In 2018 he sold that company to a Swedish tech firm for £350,000. As part of the deal, he signed a non-compete deal, meaning he couldn't work for or set up a similar business for an agreed period.
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"I was sat on a big lump of money and, for a long time, I’d been watching Homes Under The Hammer," Chris told the Daily Telegraph. “One day, I was on Rightmove and saw a house close by that was quite run-down. It had been on the market for ages, so I put in a silly offer.”.
