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Evening Standard
Business
Rachelle Abbott

How to be a CEO podcast: John Hitchcox, founder and chairman of Yoo

John Hitchcox is the founder and chairman of Yoo, a global real-estate and development company, and the world’s largest non-hotel residential brand.

He's also one of those behind a £1bn regeneration of Olympia in London.

In this episode we talk about:

•How he's inspired by "things that I need and the things that I want"

•His Plans for Olympia

•Why he created the enormous Lakes estate in the Cotswolds

•What happened when their bank went bust during the financial crisis

•How to survive a recession

•The influence of his mother who wanted to be a musician, and why he feels he's "conducting an orchestra of business"

•His nights at the karaoke with Simon le Bon

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