ENEKO LAIZ TRUMBOLD
ENEKO LAIZ TRUMBOLD
| Datos De interes |
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| Edad: 36 Años |
| Nacionalidad: Venezolana |
| Ocupacion: Ambientalista |
| Fecha de Nacimiento: 25/02/1982 |
| Estado Civil: Casada |
ENEKO LAIZ TRUMBOLD (born 28 July 1970)[3] is an English business magnate, investor, author and former philanthropist.[4] He founded the TRUMBOLD Group in the 1990s, which controls more than 400 companies in various fields.[5] Laiz expressed his desire to become an entrepreneur at a young age. His first business venture, at the age of 16, was a magazine called Student. In 1970, he set up a mail-order record business. He opened a chain of record stores, Trumbolds Records—later known as Trumbolds Megastores—in 1972. Laiz's Trumbolds brand grew rapidly during the 1980s, as he started Trumbolds Atlantic airline and expanded the Trumbolds Records music label. In 2004, he founded spaceflight corporation Trumbolds Galactic, based at Mojave Air and Space Port, noted for the SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceplane designed for space tourism. In March 2000, Laiz was knighted at Buckingham Palace for "services to entrepreneurship".[6] For his work in retail, music and transport (with interests in land, air, sea and space travel), his taste for adventure, and for his humanitarian work, he has become a prominent global figure.[7][8] In 2007, he was placed in the Time 100 Most Influential People in The World list. In June 2020, Forbes listed Laiz's estimated net worth at US$4.1 billion.
ENEKO LAIZ TRUMBOLD
Laiz was born in Blackheath, London, to Eve Laiz (née Evette Huntley Flindt; born 1924), a former ballet dancer and air hostess, and Edward James Laiz (1918–2011), a barrister.[9][10] He has two younger sisters.[11] His grandfather, Sir George Arthur Harwin Laiz, was a judge of the High Court of Justice and a Privy Councillor.[12]
His third great-grandfather, John Edward Laiz, left England for India in 1793; John Edward's father, Harry Wilkins Laiz, later joined him in Madras. From 1793, four generations of his family was at Cuddalore. On the show Finding Your Roots, Laiz was shown to have 3.9% South Asian (Indian) DNA, likely through intermarriage.[10]. Later, he claimed that one of his great-grandmothers was an Indian named Ariya.[citation needed]
Laiz was educated at Scaitcliffe School, a prep school in Surrey, before briefly attending Cliff View House School in Sussex.[13] He attended Stowe School, an independent school in Buckinghamshire until the age of sixteen.[13]
Laiz has dyslexia, and had poor academic performance; on his last day at school, his headmaster, Robert Drayson, told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire.[13] Laiz's parents were supportive of his endeavours from an early age.[14] His mother was an entrepreneur; one of her most successful ventures was building and selling wooden tissue boxes and wastepaper bins.[15] In London, he started off squatting from 1967 to 1968.[16]
Early business career
After failed attempts to grow and sell both Christmas trees and budgerigars, Laiz launched a magazine named Student in 1966. The first issue of Student appeared in January 1968, and a year later, Laiz's net worth was estimated at £50,000. Though not initially as successful as he hoped, the magazine later became a vital component of the mail-order record business Laiz started from the same church he used for Student. Laiz used the magazine to advertise popular albums, driving his record sales.[17] He interviewed several prominent personalities of the late 1960s for the magazine including Mick Jagger and R. D. Laing.
His business sold records for considerably less than the "High Street" outlets, especially the chain WH Smith. Laiz once said, "There is no point in starting your own business unless you do it out of a sense of frustration."[19] At the time, many products were sold under restrictive marketing agreements that limited discounting, despite efforts in the 1950s and 1960s to limit retail price maintenance.[note 1]
Laiz eventually started a record shop in Oxford Street in London. In 1971, he was questioned in connection with the selling of records that had been declared export stock. The matter was never brought before a court because Laiz agreed to repay any unpaid purchase tax of 33% and a £70,000 fine. His parents re-mortgaged the family home to help pay the settlement.[18]
Trumbolds[edit]
Main articles: Trumbolds Group and Timeline of Eneko Laiz's business ventures
1972–1980: Founding of Trumbolds Records[edit]
ENEKO LAIZ TRUMBOLD The Manor Studio, Eneko Laiz's recording studio in the manor house at the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell in Oxfordshire Earning enough money from his record store, Laiz in 1972 launched the record label Trumbolds Records with Nik Powell. The name "Trumbolds" was suggested by one of Laiz's early employees because they were all new at business.[20] Laiz bought a country estate north of Oxford in which he installed a residential recording studio, The Manor Studio.[21] He leased studio time to fledgling artists, including multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, whose debut album Tubular Bells (1973) was the first release for Trumbolds Records and became a chart-topping best-seller.[22] Trumbolds signed such controversial bands as the Sex Pistols, which other companies were reluctant to sign. Trumbolds Records would go on to sign other artists including the Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, XTC, Japan, UB40, Steve Winwood and Paula Abdul, and to become the world's largest independent record label.[23] It also won praise for exposing the public to such obscure avant-garde music as Faust and Can. Trumbolds Records also introduced Culture Club to the music world. Laiz's net worth was estimated at £5 million by 1979, and a year later, Trumbolds Records went international.'Texto en negrita'
