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MANY PEOPLE would think that if your name was Getty and your family had a billion-dollar fortune, you would be bound to succeed in business. But while Mark Getty found it easy to get the seed capital to start Getty Images, he discovered he needed a lot of skill to build it into a $2 billion ($£1.2 billion) company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Like Stelios Haji-Ioannou, who received a few million from his family to start Easygroup, Getty wanted to prove that he could create a substantial business. He has. Today Getty Images owns the rights to the largest collection of photographic images in the world.
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