Jamie Azzopardi, in his own words, came from “a very poor family, a super poor family, actually”. That meant he quickly learned the value of work. His first job, at age 14, was at a Grill'd fast food outlet at Highpoint in Melbourne's western suburbs.
“They initially said no to me working there because they thought I was too young,” he recalls. But he needed the money as he was “building my business”, adding he took financial advice from a banker friend, who advised him to save half his wage to put towards building a future business.
At 16, he started that business: becoming a stylist. “I had it running in my DNA. Originally, I wanted to be a designer, but I hated pattern working,” he says. “My mum was a model and my grandparents, Alfred and Magdalene,
