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Hi, I'm Leanna Byrne, and you're listening to Business Daily on the BBC World Service.

Today we meet a globe-trotting developer whose transformed landscapes into multi-billiondollar financial hubs and tourism destinations.

We hear about his journey in business from delivering newspapers

and clearing tables in a restaurant at weekends as a student.

I think it's part of my makeup.

I always aspire to do better.

So I started as a busboy, then I wanted to be a waiter,

and then I wanted to be a cook, so I ended up in the kitchen cooking. To working for the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, building

luxury hotels along the Red Sea coast. And when I arrived and they took me to the West Coast

and along the Red Sea, I was literally astonished by what I saw. That's Red Sea Global CEO,

John Pagano, my guest today on Business Daily from the BBC. Born in Canada to Italian immigrant parents,

John Pagano developed a love for work from an early age.

I say I came from humble beginnings.

My parents were immigrants to Canada.

They left Italy in the 50s to find a new world

and new opportunities.

Italy was not doing so well back then.

So, you know, they worked hard.

They put me through school. And, uh,

I was always active as a kid. I wanted to work. So I started with a paper route when I was eight.

If you want to get that granular. You know, my first job was a, I worked in a restaurant as a busboy.

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