A new start after 60: ‘I was fired at 64 – so I faced my fears and started my first company’

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Investors told Paul Tasner, 75, he should put up his feet and enjoy retirement. Instead, he reinvented himself and launched a thriving sustainable packaging business

Yet when he first had the idea, fundraising was impossible. “Some people were outright crass about it. They didn’t want to loan money to a company headed by somebody my age. ‘You should be retired, enjoying the September of your years’, all this kind of thing.”At last he was invited to a face-to-face meeting with a potential investor. “I thought: ‘Finally we’ve got a nibble.’” But the investor upbraided him: startups were for younger folk; Tasner should enjoy leisure and family time.

 

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