I sold my startup for millions without a single dollar in revenue. Here’s why that’s the point
The house I grew up in was being knocked down. Rollins House, a rundown Art Deco former factory in south-east London, was the kind of building that looks like nothing until you know what it is: unglamorous on the surface, full of history underneath. It was where my mother lived and where I was raised, and a developer wanted the site for flats.
- ▪The house I grew up in was being knocked down.
- ▪Rollins House, a rundown Art Deco former factory in south-east London, was the kind of building that looks like nothing until you know what it is: unglamorous on the surface, full of history underneath.
- ▪It was where my mother lived and where I was raised, and a developer wanted the site for flats.
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| Original publisher | Fortune |
| Canonical URL | https://fortune.com/2026/07/25/sold-startup-millions-no-revenue-safe-sign-technologies-thomson-reuters/ |
| Publication time | Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-25T07:42:07.288Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-25T07:42:07.288Z |
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The house I grew up in was being knocked down. Rollins House, a rundown Art Deco former factory in south-east London, was the kind of building that looks like nothing until you know what it is: unglamorous on the surface, full of history underneath. It was where my mother lived and where I was raised, and a developer wanted the site for flats. We had to fight, but couldn’t afford lawyers. Recommended Video I decided to teach myself planning law in between school exam revision. I pored over archives nobody else had opened, putting together a dossier of precedents that would help our case. I stood in front of a council panel, making our case opposite a law firm with more experience than I had years alive. We won.
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