Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Charlie MullinsCharlie MullinsBorn 28 Oct 1952Mullins completed a plumbing apprenticeship before working for himself and building Pimlico Plumbers. His business made presentation and reliability part of the service, with recognisable vans and uniforms alongside the practical work. The revealing step is from being the person who fixes a problem…0
  2. 2Jimmy ChooJimmy ChooBorn 15 Nov 1948Choo learned shoemaking from his father in Penang, then studied design at Cordwainers in London with his father's financial support. Factory work and his own East End shop followed. His account makes the combination unusually clear: hand skills came first, but further training, family help and…0i
  3. 3Milton S. HersheyMilton S. HersheyBorn 13 Sept 1857Hershey's mother arranged his apprenticeship with confectioner Joseph Royer, and intervened when he needed more time learning in the kitchen. He learned to judge ingredients, heat and timing by practice. Early business failures show the limit of that preparation: making good confectionery and…0i
  4. 4Nancy SilvertonNancy SilvertonSilverton brought professional pastry experience to the bread she developed for Campanile and La Brea Bakery, opened with partners in 1989. A carefully cultivated starter became central to the product. Her route is useful for understanding how repeated work on flavour and fermentation can produce a…0i
  5. 5Joanne ChangJoanne ChangChang left a consulting career and worked in restaurant and bakery kitchens before opening Flour in 2000. Her pastry training therefore came before entrepreneurship, rather than being her first occupation. That makes her a useful career-change example: an earlier degree and professional experience…0
  6. 6Christina TosiChristina TosiA trained pastry chef, Tosi developed desserts at Momofuku before opening Milk Bar in 2008 with backing from David Chang. Her business drew on technical pastry skills and an appetite for familiar, playful flavours. It is a clear example of a new venture emerging from work inside another company,…0i
  7. 7Vidal SassoonVidal SassoonBorn 17 Jan 1928Sassoon began as an apprentice at Adolph Cohen's London salon before opening his own in 1954. His precise cutting techniques gave the salon business a distinctive service to sell. The craft was central to the proposition: the haircut itself, and the skill required to reproduce it, mattered as much…0i
  8. 8John Deere (inventor)John Deere (inventor)Born 7 Feb 1804Deere repaired farmers' ploughs as a blacksmith and understood the problem of sticky soil clinging to their surfaces. His steel plough of 1837 drew directly on that contact with materials and customers. Later partnerships helped turn a useful workshop solution into manufacturing, making his story a…0i
  9. 9Soichiro HondaSoichiro HondaBorn 17 Nov 1906Honda apprenticed at the Art Shokai repair business and later ran its Hamamatsu operation before moving into manufacturing. Repairing different vehicles gave him a practical education in how machines behaved outside a drawing office. His later partnership with Takeo Fujisawa also matters: technical…0i
  10. 10Robert BoschRobert BoschBosch trained as a precision mechanic and worked in several countries before opening his own workshop. He later judged his apprenticeship to have lacked guidance and established a dedicated training workshop in his company. This is a useful example of trade experience shaping both the products a…0i