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Kain Warwickâs crypto-anarchist bent began at 14, when his parents forbade him from expanding his tennis racquet restringing business. His father, Kim Warwick, toured as a professional tennis player, winning three titles including the 1981 Australian Open Doubles Championship, and reaching a career-high ranking of 15. Young Kain saw an opportunity to restring racquets at the family tennis centre. When he was quickly swamped with orders, his parents â perhaps fearing the dereliction of his school homework â shut the business down.
It was a stunning lesson for Warwick in how authorities can stifle business innovation. And it set in train a lifelong distrust of any system where someone in charge gets to tell others what they can and canât do.