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It’s always fun to hear about the guy making ice cream or pizza from his garage who has gone on to great things. James Watt is one of them. Co-founder of BrewDog, the Scottish craft beer company that started making ale out of the back of a van and delivering it to local markets in 2007, just hit the jackpot.
He won the Great British Entrepreneur of the Year award last week. With 314 employees, 24 BrewDog bars and £4.25 million raised last year through crowdfunding, Watt is certainly on his way.
The event was NatWest-sponsored and held at the former Billingsgate fish market in the City of London. Other winners included Shane Lake, who co-founded the website hungryhouse and Darren Westlake who started the online investing business Crowdcube.