I founded a large services business called TOPS in Mumbai, India in 1992. What started as a modest 3 employee firm, slowly grew to become the largest security brand in India. At its peak, the company employed more than 97,000 people, operated from 200 offices across seven countries in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, had revenues of £140 Mn and an enterprise valuation of £270 Mn. Between 2015 and 2022, I faced the most challenging years of my entrepreneurial journey. To support my UK business, I provided my personal guarantee for a working capital loan. The UK business was sold in 2016 but the bank didn't realise its debt from the sale. In 2021, the bank took my Indian business into administration, and seized all my assets, including my personal properties in London and Mumbai. Everything I had painstakingly built brick by brick, came crashing down in front of my eyes! I had no choice but to declare bankruptcy in 2022 😔At 54, I’m embarking on a new chapter, rebuilding my life from the ground up💪🏼 After being formally discharged from bankruptcy in 2023, I now bring deeper experience and sharper insights into what drives success, what works in the long run, and crucially, what doesn’t💯I am building a disruptive, content- tech platform called PRESSHOP, that connects people directly with the press🤳 We are on a mission to transform the $1.96 trillion news and media space by empowering 6.9 billion smartphone users to sell their pics & videos directly and anonymously to ~100,000 digital, tabloid & TV publishers worldwide💰🚀Our AI-powered news-tech platform, enables smartphone users to capture and instantly sell real-life content anonymously to the Press. Witnessed a newsworthy event, or have important information to share? Simply snap a pic, record a video or audio, or scan a document, and sell it directly to the Press from the comfort of your app🤳📸With PRESSHOP, the Press can now assign tasks to our extensive user network across the UK, instantly accessing local content and maintaining an unparalleled edge in the news cycle! Think Uber, but for content sourcing from local in villages, towns, and cities!We aim to launch PRESSHOP in London by end 2024. The journey to making genuine news more accessible and our communities safer, starts right here, right now with PRESSHOP🤳If you’d like to know more about my 38 year entrepreneurial journey, especially the challenges I faced and learn from the costly mistakes I have made, please visit 👉🏼www.ritchienanda.com