'Foolish' Idea: Designing computer games.
Start-up Capital: Unknown.
How Idea was Launched: To Peter Molyneux games are easy, so he started up his own company, Bullfrog Productions.
Sales: Through high-street stores and computer game retailers.
Earnings: Sold his company for £40 million.
On his 40th birthday, Peter Molyneux returned to his old school, arriving dramatically by helicopter. In the careers room, he reminisced about his teacher's advice that he should consider joining the Army or becoming a lumberjack. Peter, who has dyslexia, was not diagnosed until his time at technical college. During his school years, his teachers simply assumed he was unintelligent because, while he could answer questions in class, he struggled significantly with written work. This misunderstanding led to frustration, and Peter often found himself escaping into elaborate daydreams during lessons.
Once his dyslexia had been realised, Peter Molyneux re-sat exams by dictating the answers for someone else to write. He passed every one, then sailed through A levels and a degree. After University, he started a company Bullfrog Productions, because he had discovered his talent lay in designing computer games based on the fantasy world he'd created in his school day daydreams.
Peter Molyneux eventually sold Bullfrog Productions for £40 million and started another, as an outlet for his seemingly endless ideas in a fantasy world he can create, which is a result of his dyslexia.