Chris Hulatt was just 23 when he decided corporate life wasn’t for him. He’d spent two-and-a-half years on Mercury Asset Management’s grad program. It was long enough to meet cofounders Simon Rogerson and Guy Myles, and long enough to know he wanted out.
“Everyone thought we were totally mad,” Hulatt recalled of the moment the three of them dropped out of the coveted grad program to launch Octopus Investments at the turn of the millennium.
