'I started as a roofer on £20 a day - this is how I got to making £2million a year'
10.04.2024 - 06:49
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Ollie Piotrowski spent his teenage years cycling an hour to work earning £20 a day as a roofer to scrimp and save enough from his job to buy his first property. Developing and re-selling his first terraced house that he bought for £30,000 would set into motion what has now become a £2m a year property business.
Now Ollie is celebrating the ten year anniversary of his investment and property development company Pinnacle Holdings - and he's reflecting on exactly how he got to where he is today.
Ollie did it all without family money or direct access to investors at the start - instead teaching himself and learning the hard way how to become a successful entrepreneur. His business has seen him build new homes and consult on a collective portfolio of £500m worth of investments.
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Ollie now lives in Lancashire with his fiancée, Hollyoaks star Jorgie Porter, and will appear in Jorgie's new ITV documentary series Drama Queens which starts on Wednesday, April 10. He will be seen working on some of his property projects in the show, as well as his side project as co-owner of the Transpire leisurewear business.
He now hopes to inspire other young people that 'anything is possible'. Ollie says: "A lot of my own backstory was imposter syndrome, so really for me now it's about inspiring the younger generation of how anything is possible. I started from the small stuff, went on to massive stuff and now I've been all around the world.
"I've never really spoken about my business before - but I'm 35 now, with two kids, planning on getting married, so I feel like now is the right time to try and push and inspire the next generation.
"When I was growing up there was