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"To my dying day I would have regretted not giving it a go."
- Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman S4 Capital.
In our conversation Sir Martin Sorrell reflects on decisions behind the turning points in his career and the difficulty of balancing career and family.
Sir Martin is a living legend in the world of advertising. Some even draw a comparison to Don Draper known from the TV Series ‘Mad Men’.
He built is career working for the ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi which he left at the age of 40 to do his own thing. He then made his fortune, valued at almost $500M dollars (Source: Wikipedia), by turning WPP, a manufacturer of shopping baskets, into a global advertising network. At 73 he departed WPP. But rather than retiring he is now doing it all over again with S4 capital
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"To my dying day I would have regretted not giving it a go."
- Sir Martin Sorrell, Executive Chairman S4 Capital.
In our conversation Sir Martin Sorrell reflects on decisions behind the turning points in his career and the difficulty of balancing career and family.
Sir Martin is a living legend in the world of advertising. Some even draw a comparison to Don Draper known from the TV Series ‘Mad Men’.
He built is career working for the ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi which he left at the age of 40 to do his own thing. He then made his fortune, valued at almost $500M dollars (Source: Wikipedia), by turning WPP, a manufacturer of shopping baskets, into a global advertising network. At 73 he departed WPP. But rather than retiring he is now doing it all over again with S4 capital