A 億万長者 at 26... after illness left him housebound: Teetotal 卒業生（する） becomes Britain's youngest self-made 億万長者 after 開始する，打ち上げるing ビデオ 会議／協議会ing app during lockdown

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A teetotal 26-year-old has become Britain's youngest self-made 億万長者 after 開始する，打ち上げるing an online events 会社／堅い at the start of lockdown.

Johnny Boufarhat developed the ビデオ-会議／協議会ing app Hopin while he was struck 負かす／撃墜する in bed with an 自動車-免疫の 病気.

In just one year, the unassuming Manchester University 卒業生（する） has transformed into one of the hottest tech entrepreneurs in Europe.

The app 許すs 会議／協議会s to be live-streamed and is valued at £4.1billion with its 創立者's 火刑／賭ける now 価値（がある） nearly £1.5billion.

Johnny Boufarhat developed the ビデオ-会議／協議会ing app Hopin while he was struck 負かす／撃墜する in bed with an 自動車-免疫の 病気

Mr Boufarhat once worked seven days a week but now takes a half day off on Saturdays

Mr Boufarhat's new-設立する fortune has 伸び（る）d him 113th place in the Sunday Times Rich 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） of the most 豊富な individuals and families in the country.

The 年次の review 設立する the 連合させるd fortune of Britain's 億万長者s has 増加するd by a fifth to £597billion にもかかわらず the pandemic.

While millions were furloughed or laid off, the wealth of each of the UK's 250 richest people grew at an 普通の／平均（する） of more than £1million a day over the past year.?

Mr Boufarhat with an 投資 team at the Seedcamp office s. His own 会社／堅い Hopin has no offices and its 500 staff are mostly in the US and UK

The London 演説（する）／住所 where Hopin is 登録（する）d, によれば public Companies House papers

Jack is the son of West Ham owner David Sullivan and is 価値（がある） around £1.04billion?

Lady Charlotte Wellesley has an 概算の wealth of some £2.4billion and is UK's 2nd richest

The Duke of Westminster is by far the UK’s richest young 億万長者 with a £10.05billion fortune

This has led to calls for an 精密検査する of the way the 最高の-rich are 税金d.

Mr Boufarhat was born in Sydney after his parents ? a mechanical engineer and an accountant ? moved to Australia from Lebanon during the 1975-1990 civil war.?

The family moved on to Los Angeles then Dubai before Mr Boufarhat （機の）カム to the UK to 熟考する／考慮する mechanical 工学.

After 卒業生（する）ing, he 苦しむd a mysterious sickness which left him unable to get out of bed at his girlfriend's flat in King's Cross, central London.

It was then that he began honing his app. After 存在 診断するd with an 自動車-免疫の 病気, he 回復するd by changing his diet to only 有機の food.

In an interview last year he said Elon Musk was the CEO he was 熟考する／考慮するing the most.

And he 明らかにする／漏らすd his first foray into the world of 科学（工学）技術 was as a 13-year-old child.

He told Viral We grow: 'First 会議 was a WWF 会議 when I was 13.

'I was a big fan of 格闘するing when I was a kid, so I created the 会議. It was the first time enabling a community of any type.'

Mr Boufarhat raised millions in 基金ing to 開始する，打ち上げる the Hoffin app in March last year after which 'things went crazy', he said.

During the pandemic, its 使用者 base 急に上がるd to five million, with 80,000 organisations 含むing American 表明する and Hewlett-Packard using it.

Hopin had sales of £54million in the year to January 2021 and is 予測（する） to rake in £130million this year.

Although it is 登録（する）d in the UK, Mr Boufarhat lives in Barcelona with his fianc?e, who 作品 with him.

The 会社／堅い has no offices and its 500 staff are mostly in the US and UK. Mr Bo ufarhat once worked seven days a week but now takes a half day off on Saturdays.

He told the Sunday Times: 'I'm very, very work-焦点（を合わせる）d. I just want to be as impactful as I can, in a 肯定的な way for the world... I'm boring ? I don't drink, I don't do anything like that.

'I make sure all my food is 有機の. That's the biggest change I've made.'

After 卒業生（する）ing, he 苦しむd a mysterious sickness which left him unable to get out of bed at his girlfriend's flat in King's Cross, central London

After 存在 診断するd with an 自動車-免疫の 病気, he 回復するd by changing his diet to only 有機の food

Britain's first 黒人／ボイコット 億万長者: London-based telecoms 大君, 60, who fled Zimbabwe and is now trying to 供給する Africa with Covid ワクチンs while sitting on Netflix and Unilever boards

A telecoms 大君 whose family fled 不安 in Zimbabwe, who took on Robert Mugabe ーするために start his 商売／仕事s, and who is now helping to 供給する Covid ワクチンs to Africa, has been 指名するd as Britain's first 黒人／ボイコット 億万長者.

London-based 努力する／競う Masiyiwa, 60, has clinched the accolade によれば the Sunday Times Rich 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）.

However the Zimbabwe-born 実業家, who sits on the boards of Netflix and Unilever, has a more 圧力（をかける）ing goal in mind - 試みる／企てるing get Covid ワクチンs to Africa.

Mr Masiyiwa, considered as one of Africa's most generous 人道的なs, is 現在／一般に the African Union's specia l （外交）使節／代表 on the pandemic.

And the 実業家, a father of six, has recently 安全な・保証するd 400 million doses of the Covid ワクチン for the continent - home to 1.3billion people.

努力する／競う Masiyiwa (pictured with wife Tsitsi in 2016), who fled 不安 in Zimbabwe, took on Robert Mugabe ーするために start his 商売／仕事s, and is now helping to 供給する Covid ワクチンs to Africa, has been 指名するd the first 黒人／ボイコット 億万長者

Mr Masiyiwa (pictured with Tony Blair in 2013) moved to the UK as a child, …に出席するd 第２位 school in Scotland and has an 工学 degree from the University of むちの跡s

Mr Masiyiwa owns high profile 所有物／資産／財産s in New York, 含むing two 隣接する apartments 頂上に the 29-storey Eldorado Towers (pictured) - which have been at さまざまな points home to 星／主役にするs such as Michael J. Fox, Moby and Alec Baldwin

Mr Masiyiwa rise to wealth is a remarkable one, with his parents having fled Rhodesia when he was a child.?

He was born in the country - now modern day Zimbabwe - in 1961. When he was 老年の 7 his parents fled the country まっただ中に the 不安 after Ian Smith's 政府 宣言するd independence from Britain.

His family moved to Zambia, where Mr Masiyiwa …に出席するd 最初の／主要な school, before moving to the UK 老年の 12.

He …に出席するd a 私的な 第２位 school in Scotland - paid for by his entrepreneur mother - before later 収入 an 工学 degree from the University of むちの跡s.?

For a short time he worked in Cambridge in the computer 産業, but later returned to Africa.

Upon returning to Zimbabwe in 1984, four years after it had 伸び（る）d independence from Britain, Mr Masiyiwa began working in telecoms. He 始める，決める up his company Econet in 1993.

In 1998, にもかかわらず 対立 from then Zimbabwean 大統領，／社長 Robert Mugabe - who died in 2019 - he 開始する，打ち上げるd a 動きやすい phone 網状組織.

Mugabe 辞退するd to give him a license to operate his 商売／仕事. But Mr Masiyiwa took on the 議論の的になる leader?to the 憲法の 法廷，裁判所 of Zimbabwe.

After a five year 合法的な 戦う／戦い, which took him to the brink of 破産, he won and was given the green light to 始める，決める up the 網状組織.

Today the company, known as Econet Wireless Zimbabwe, is the second-largest?by market capitalisation.

He later told Forbes that the 開始する，打ち上げる of the 網状組織 took place 'at a time when 70 per cent of the country inhabitants had never heard a ringtone'.

Mr Masiyiwa (pictured with Barack Obama in 2016) was born in the Rhodesia - now modern day Zimbabwe - in 1961. When he was seven his parents fled the country まっただ中に the 不安 the country's 宣言 of independence from Britain

After 逃げるing 迫害 from the 地元の 当局, Masiyiwa left Zimbabwe, 最初 to South Africa - where he 開始する，打ち上げるd a new Econet Wireless group.

The Econet Wireless group now operates in Africa, Europe, South America and the East Asia 太平洋の 縁.

After living in South Africa for several years, Mr Masiyiwa moved to London in 2010 and has lived in the 資本／首都 ever since.

He still 持続するs a 重要な 商売／仕事 利益／興味 in South Africa.?

While in the UK, Mr Masiyiwa lives in a detached £2.5million mansion on an 排除的 私的な 広い地所 in Surrey.?

He also owns high profile 所有物／資産／財産s in New York, 含むing two?隣接する apartments 頂上に the 29-storey?Eldorado Towers - which have been at さまざまな points home to 星／主役にするs such as Michael J. Fox, Moby and Alec Baldwin.

He bought the two 所有物／資産／財産s for $24.5million in 2016. によれば 2019 報告（する）／憶測s, he also owns a £24million mansion, with 24 rooms - 含むing nine bathrooms with ensuite bathrooms.?

Mr Masiyiwa also owns high profile 所有物／資産／財産s in New York, 含むing two 隣接する apartments 頂上に the 29-storey Eldorado Towers - which have been at さまざまな points home to 星／主役にするs such as Michael J. Fox (pictured left), Moby and Alec Baldwin (pictured 権利)

Mr Masiyiwa 株d a picture of himself with an American bishop, author and filmmaker T.D Jakes in Ghana in 2018

Mr Masiyiwa is a member of the Netflix board. Here he is in a picture her 株d on Instagram with the company's co-創立者 Reed Harrison in 2019

Mr Masiyiwa is also known as one of the most prolific African philanthropists, 焦点（を合わせる）ing in particular on young people.

He 設立するd the Higherlife 創立／基礎 together with his wife Tsitsi, which 支払う／賃金s school 料金s for some 40,000 students in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Burundi and Lesotho who are either 孤児d or from low-income families.

He has 供給するd scholarships to more than 250,000 young Africans over the past 20 years through his family 創立／基礎.

The couple also 設立するd the 外交官／大使 Andrew Young Scholarship, which enables African students to …に出席する the Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, US.?

In 2012, 大統領 Barack Obama 招待するd Masiyiwa and four other 商売／仕事 leaders to …に出席する the 38th G8 首脳会議 at （軍の）野営地，陣営 David to 演説（する）／住所 them on 戦略s on how to 増加する food 生産／産物 and end poverty in parts of Africa.?

And in 2014, Fortune Magazine 指名するd Masiyiwa as one of the 50 most 影響力のある 商売／仕事 leaders in the world.?

He made the Forbes 億万長者 sheet in 2018, with his total 価値（がある） then 概算の to be around $2.3billion.

This month is the time he has been 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）d on the Sunday Times Rich 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） as a 億万長者.