Alan knott craig biography book
Alan Knott-Craig is a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, chairman of HeroTel, a broadband provider covering South Africa, and founder of Project....
A business biography that follows the life of Alan Knott-Craig as a serial entrepreneur in the telecoms and tech spaces, tracking his wins and losses.
Life Lessons: How to Fail and Win
Alan Knott-Craig
Tafelberg
Review: Karen Watkins
Not to be confused with his dad, the former CEO of Vodacom, this book is a business biography of author and founder of fibertime™ and Project Isizwe following the life of Alan Knott-Craig, tracking his wins and losses, and the lessons learnt along the way for business and life.
As a serial entrepreneur in the telecoms and tech spaces for 13 years, this Stellenbosch entrepreneur has founded, funded or run 21 companies, including Cellfind, iBurst, Mxit and HeroTel.
His first book was Don’t Panic compiled to remind South Africans ‘why not to pack for Perth’. In Life Lessons he charts his journey on a cut-throat rollercoaster ride to becoming a successful businessman.
The first third of this book is about his younger life with chapters on bullies, brothers, lemons and lemonade.
Having left university in 2000 as a chartered accountant he worked at Deloitte in New York for a short period