Ticket to Ride: My Adventures in Making Big Money and Giving it Away

by Sir Peter Lampl

Overview

The candid tale of one of Britain’s most outstanding contemporary philanthropists.

These pages wryly track Peter’s varied career moves, from flogging tickets for one of The Beatles first major concerts, to getting inadvertently caught up in a New York family turf war while trying to buy a treated wood company.

However, at the book’s heart is a serious mission to present a clear and galvanising case for strategic philanthropy, crucially with the founding of educational charity, The Sutton Trust.

Partly an inspiring memoir, partly an impassioned call to action for social mobility and educational equality, Peter Lampl’s autobiography describes how a self-made entrepreneur amassed a fortune and then chose to use it to help others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008372385
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	06/15/2021
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.45(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sir Peter Lampl founded the Sutton Company, a New York leveraged-buyout firm, and the Sutton Trust, a foundation which works to improve social mobility in Britain. He has three children, Katie, Chris and Steph, and lives with his wife, Susan, in Surrey.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

1 On the Brink 1

2 Setting Up Home 17

3 Ticket to Ride 36

4 On Trial in Oxford 53

5 Confessions of a Drug Dealer 72

6 Getting Down to Business 81

7 Cash Cows and Question Marks 94

8 Seeing the Wood for the Trees 110

9 Making Some Money 127

10 Making Some More Money 148

11 Dunblane and After 161

12 Back to School (and Back to College) 179

13 Open Access 206

14 Socially Mobile 221

15 My Vanishing Act. And My Reappearing Act 242

16 Entrepreneurial Philanthropy for All 252

Afterword 263

Acknowledgements 271

Editorial Reviews

‘Peter Lampl embodies the great truth that those in a position to make a difference should do so.’ Michael Bloomberg
‘Using his private wealth to advance the public interest, Peter Lampl has transformed the opportunities available to thousands of young people and changed the way we think about social mobility.’ Gordon Brown

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