Becoming resilient in the face of tragedy - Dragon's Den Blog
As someone who wouldn't tend to watch Dragon's Den I was drawn in by Craig Hill, the owner of 'Landscapes for learning Ltd', a company with the aim of providing outdoor educational resources for primary schools. Craig went to meet the dragons in the hopes of gaining a £50,000 investment , in return for a 15% stake of his company. Craig enters the den on a positive quote of “Like anything in life, anything worth having, never came easy.” This can be seen later on in the episode when he reveals that his motivations behind starting ‘Landscapes for Learning Ltd’ were due to his daughter getting into an accident when she was younger, therefore leading to Craig becoming depressed and unable to continue his job as a special need’s art teacher. This led me to think that he was an ideal candidate for an investment from a dragon, as I believe that someone who has seen the worst of things, can only go up from there and will have large amounts of motivation to b