On this episode, Jimmy Carpenter chats to Sir Tom Hunter, who built up Sports Division from selling trainers out the back of his van. In 1998 he went on to sell the business for just over £290m to JJB Sports. He went on to became Scotland's first ever homegrown billionaire, he's raised millions for charity from BBC Children In Need to the annual Kiltwalk, and through charity he’s become friends with Barack Obama and Leonardo Di Caprio.

 

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