“You need people [who] have their sort of big boy pants on to do this sort of stuff and not to … panic and run away,” Mark Nelson, Caledonia’s founder and chairman, says in an interview, one of more than a dozen with insiders, investors and friends of Vicars, 57, and his co-chief investment officer, Mike Messara, 41, conducted for this piece.

Inside the wild ride of Will Vicars’ Caledonia comes via ChinaTechNews.com.