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Risky business

Colleen Glaeser is a school dropout and self-made millionaire.

14 August 2018

There are serious perks to be had from turning your IT company into a major success, like being able to visit a luxurious game lodge whenever you want. Not because you can afford the bill, but because you own the place.

Colleen Glaeser is sitting on the wooden deck of Karkloof Safari Villas when I meet her, looking over a valley where rhino, buffalo and nyala roam. She’s dictating a series of snappy instructions to her assistant via voice messages on WhatsApp, and there’s a faintly intimidating air about her. “But my bark is worse than my bite,” she laughs.

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