If you want to see how far John Caudwell has come from the terraced streets of 1960s Stoke, you need to look above even his £250 million London mansion - and up to the cranes spiking the Mayfair sky that proudly bear his name.
When John was a car dealer in 1980s Stoke-on-Trent, his obsession with mobile phones won him the nickname Motorola Man. But he had the last laugh 20 years later when Phones4U, the phone chain he built into a household name, was sold in a deal that made him a billionaire.
Now he’s published his autobiography, Love, Pain and Money, a fast-paced story through his journey from Stoke to Mayfair and Monaco.
