THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

''Richard is the real deal. . . If you don't believe simple steps can deliver a business worth billions, read this, and then think again.''

JAKE HUMPHREY, author of High Performance

''How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps is a blueprint for success, full of practical strategies that actually work.

SARA DAVIES, TV Dragon and author of The Six-Minute Entrepreneur

''There''s nothing that entrepreneurs need more than inspiration and practical advice . . . Richard''s book has this in bucketloads . . . This is a crucial toolkit.''

THEO PAPHITIS, TV Dragon & Retail Entrepreneur

Richard Harpin became an entrepreneur at the age of just seven when he started selling conkers to his school friends. Fifty years later he sold a company he founded, HomeServe, for over £4 billion.

In How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps, Harpin shares the lessons he learned along the way, and the things he wishes he had known that could have got him to a billion-pound valuation faster.

He reveals his uncomplicated, grounded and honest approach to business, showing that start-up success is not rocket science. And he shares his practical wisdom for building a company from the ground up, identifying opportunities, creating effective marketing, planning for future growth, hiring brilliant people and developing the key qualities of a great leader.

It will inspire a new generation of CEOs, fitting them for a world of ever-evolving challenges, and revealing the path to extraordinary success.

Richard Harpin''s book ''How to Make a Billion in Nine Steps'' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 2025-07-14.