Jamal Edwards made his way from a teenager on a council estate in west London to self-made multimillionaire in a very short space of time.
This amateur film-maker turned media boss, as his capital now exceeds £8m (N2,030,500,000), and counts famous entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson (pictured) as one of his friends.
Jamal is the owner of SBTV, a broadcasting company that makes videos – typically music videos featuring rap and pop music stars – and puts them up on YouTube. The SB stands for SmokeyBarz, Jamal’s own rapping nickname.
Attracting millions of hits, predominantly from 13- to 30-year-olds, the business continues to make a fortune by taking a percentage of YouTube’s advertising revenues for adverts that are linked to its videos.
It is not a bad living for a young man who got into film-making after his parents gave him a basic video camera as a Christmas present when he was 15, and someone who by his own admission has no formal training. This gift inspired Jamal and he immediately started to film friends rapping or singing.
Jamal says it is just a question of believing in yourself, and finding your talent, which for him is making videos.
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