From a VAT Fine to £1M: Ben King on Failed Partnerships and Finding His Brand

So we joined up together and we would run multiple businesses under the VAT threshold because I was scared of

that.

And that wasn't good because I got caught eventually.

We had Waste Brothers.

We had exterior cleaning and we had a Wendigan company.

And we got collared for trying to, you know, and we got a fine.

I got a fine for it.

I paid the fine.

And that was the end of that.

And then we joined everything together and had one company, React Property Solutions.

We were best mates at the time, but we were so different.

I was extremely driven.

And I'm not saying he wasn't driven, but our mindsets were so different.

So the partnership fell out.

We fell out of friends after being very good friends for many years.

We've rekindled that relationship now and we're all good now.

But I think partnerships, you hear it all the time, they're a bad thing.

You've had it before, haven't

you? Yeah, I've had it.

Currently in one now.

Hopefully that's going well.

Yeah, I have had one that went very sadly wrong.

And funny enough, it was actually with my best friend from school.

Yeah.

And I kind of knew him and we were like brothers.