Short answers, pulled from the story.
Peter Molyneux sold baked beans to the Middle East after a failed attempt to sell video games. This outcome followed the poor sales of his 1984 text-based business simulation called The Entrepreneur.
Peter Molyneux created The Entrepreneur in 1984. He published the game by duplicating hundreds of tapes on two Tandy Corporation recorders.
Peter Molyneux received only two orders for The Entrepreneur. He speculated that one of the orders came from his mother.
Peter Molyneux founded Bullfrog Productions in 1987. This company was established using capital from his database system for the Amiga called Acquisition.
Commodore International offered ten free Amiga systems because they mistook Taurus Impex Limited for Torus, a more established networking software firm. Peter Molyneux realized the mistake and fled the office fearing the computers would be taken away.