Michael Bruce with his younger brother Kenny founded Purple Bricks the online estate agency famous for offering to sell your house in the UK for a fixed fee of just £845 inclusive of VAT. Purple Bricks was recently valued at £240million.

Michael, and his younger brother Kenny and four older sisters were brought up by their single mother in a council house in Larne in the 70s and 80s. His first experience of work was when he was still a school boy doing a milk round in the morning and collecting glasses in a local pub in the evening while his brother did the Coal Run.

In this fascinating interview Michael says :

“We didn’t want to rush to market. Many entrepreneurs think when they’ve got a website they’ve got a business. We spent two and a half years building the business first.”

Now in Australia and the USA there is no holding back these two brothers from Larne. When asked for final advice developing a business he simply states :

“Have a dream and be relentless and wise in pursuing it.”