article_snippet.sent: John Caudwell, the founder of Phones4U, bought the Audley Street garage in Mayfair, central London for £155million in order to knock £155million down and build a high-end housing complex.
article_snippet.sent: The Phones4U founder, pictured with Entrepreneur partner Claire Johnson, is known as a prolific investor in Mayfair property .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Caudwell founded Phones4U and sold Mr Caudwell business for £1.5billion .
article_snippet.sent: Mr Caudwell rose from humble beginnings to become one of the wealthiest men in Britain thanks to the Phones4U business empire.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Caudwell left school before taking Mr Caudwell A-levels and worked as an apprentice at Michelin - but while working at the tyre firm, Mr Caudwell started a mail-order business selling clothing to motorbike fans.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Caudwell was living in a caravan when Mr Caudwell and Mr Caudwell brother cooked up a plan to sell mobile phones, then considered an expensive luxury with huge profit margins.
article_snippet.sent: In 1987 Mr Caudwell bought 26 phones from Motorola and took eight months to sell 26 phones, but that turned out to be the origins of a company which would help define the burgeoning mobile market.
article_snippet.sent: Nearly 20 years later, Mr Caudwell cashed out by selling the last of Mr Caudwell businesses for £1.5billion, and at that point Mr Caudwell became a noted philanthropist, giving to causes such as the NSPCC and the Bomber Command memorial.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Caudwell has a son with Mr Caudwell partner Claire Johnson, as well as four other children from previous relationships.
article_snippet.sent: As well as a son properties in Mayfair, Mr Caudwell owns 50-room Broughton Hall in Staffordshire, where Mr Caudwell is currently building a private miniature railway to transport Mr Caudwell and Mr Caudwell