A 17-year-old who sent Paul Bassat a cold email now has a $2m cheque
Fuller was 17 when he met with Bassat and a string of other investors on a short holiday to Australia from Dublin in March, when his precocious entrepreneurialism won him a $US1.4 million ($2.1 million) cheque.
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