Find your door

At 23, Paul Owor watched more than $1.5 million land in his companys bank account.

Just four years earlier, he was a first-year student at Makerere University Business School, living on beans and tea in a rented room in Bweyogerere. He had lost his father at five and the aunt who raised him at fourteen. His elder brother paid his school fees.

Paul took a commission-only sales job at a Kampala furniture workshop, learned the trade under a tough boss, and at 21 started his own interior design company, Shinrai Group. Two years later, he won a $5 million tender to design and build betting shops across Uganda.

What followed was a rollercoaster: twelve cars, property, a record label, a safari company, and a run for Parliament in Busiro South that he believes he won but was announced second.

Honest about the wins and the mistakes, Find Your Door is a story of hard work, family and second chances. It is also a practical guide for every young person wondering whether their life can be bigger than their beginnings.