Two young entrepreneurs who had to transform their business overnight after the UK went into lockdown have made their first £1million - and they're about to take on Europe.
Hugo Tilmouth, 24 and Charlie Baron, 26, had been working on 'ChargedUp' since 2017, and 2020 was 'supposed to be their year'.
They'd planned to launch a network of 2,500 charging points across Europe, allowing the public to rent mobile phone charging packs, in a similar model to bike sharing.
But as coronavirus started to unfold across Spain and Italy, ChargedUp's future was thrown into doubt. "We had to place our staff on furlough," Charlie explained, recalling the moment reality started to hit home.
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