Originally Posted by
TwinAisle
No - but he had a team that had. He had a realistic business plan. He had a lot of money. And he didn't tell outrageous porkies in his expositions....
...not to mention that his father, Loucas Haji-Ioannou,
was a Greek-Cypriot shipping entrepreneur - one of the few Greek ship owners whose fleets dominated the global shipping industry for most of the 20th century.