RAGS TO RICHES
I earned £20 a day as a roofer – now I’m worth £2million & married to a soap star… I advise footballers & billionaires
The entrepreneur reveals how he built his huge fortune
A MAN who left school at 16 and cycled to work as a roofer earning £20 a day is now making millions and is engaged to a soap star.
Ollie Piotrowski, 35, has built his net worth to £2million and is set to star in a new reality TV show alongside his Hollyoaks fiancee Jorgie Porter.
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That show, Drama Queens, airs tonight and will give a behind the scenes look at the Lancashire life of Jorgie and also see Ollie's property business.
Ollie is also celebrating the 10 year anniversary of founding his property development and investment company Pinnacle Holdings.
He now partners with international footballers and billionaire business people and has advised on projects worth £500million, he says.
It's a long way from where he started - cycling to work as a roofer aged 16 and only earning £20 a day.
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Between the ages of 16 and 20 he was able to save £30,000 which he bought a home with and then renovated and flipped for £65,000.
Ollie said he was inspired by his grandfather Zdzislaw Piotrowski who survived a concentration camp in the Second World War and moved to Britain speaking no English.
From there, Ollie wanted to make an investment company that was different and helped him to stand out.
He told the : "So I spent a few months looking into investments and what I could do with my £70,000 that I had made at that point - and that is when I created Pinnacle.
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"The idea was to create a company that doesn't take an investor's money, it advises an investor of where to put the money while partnering on it with them.
"Instead of me taking their money I advise them and take a cut at the end, so that was the start of Pinnacle."
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He said he started out by waiting in posh London hotels and striking up conversations with potential clients.
Ollie's first success, which took a year, was with a Saudi general.
He said what he had learned was the importance of believing in yourself and continuing to work even in the most difficult circumstances.
"Sharing my own experience when I go on site now, I've had many a conversation with people who work for me, I can really show them that I spent six, seven years of my life on roofs, freezing, earning hardly any money and cycling an hour each way to work. I want my own team to know they can be successful in their own right."
It was in one of these hotels where he bumped into Jorgie after the pair had previously dated six years earlier.
He said: "I was having a lunch with a client and she was sat a couple of tables away. So we then rekindled it from there and the rest is history."
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Since then Pinnacle has grown and grown and now is planning a luxurious off-grid resort called Minimo.
Ollie hopes to bring about social change by building and managing an estate of premium quality children's homes that will support the kids through their lives.
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In 2021, Jorgie announced she had tragically miscarried quadruplets with Ollie at 14 weeks.
Jorgie told The Sun at the time: “If we can get through this, we can get through anything.”
“When the consultant performed the scan then said: ‘You’ve miscarried,’ I was in total shock.”
In August, at a scan at around 14 weeks, she and Ollie discovered there was no sign of life in any of the embryo sacs.
The quadruplets had died in a missed miscarriage, when the body doesn’t recognise the pregnancy loss or expel pregnancy tissue.
She explained: “We’ve come through so much. My auntie Gina died when we found out we were pregnant, Ollie’s grandad died this year, then we lost the quads.
“As hard as it was losing them, I just have to believe that, for whatever reason, it wasn’t our time.
“Of course I’ve shed tears.
“I’ve tried to come to terms with it by thinking: ‘They’ve never lived, I don’t know them,’ but it took Ollie to say to me: ‘You held them in you for three months,’ to appreciate the power of those emotions.”
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