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The 'boring' University of Manchester graduate who has become Britain's youngest self-made billionaire

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Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox A 26-year-old has become Britain's youngest self-made billionaire after launching his business at the start of the Covid pandemic.

University of Manchester mechanical engineering graduate Johnny Boufarhat raised funding to help launch video conferencing app Hopin last March after Britain was plunged into its first lockdown and high streets and businesses were forced to close their doors.

The idea came about two years prior to the Covid emergency - although he was unable to secure any money to take it off the ground, the Mirror reports. It began from his girlfriend's bedroom in King's Cross, London, in 2018, after he was left bedridden due to a mystery

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