Our co-founder, Rupert Bryant, part of Fin24’s Young South Africans with a Difference series, was interviewed by Fin 24 about how he started Web Africa.
Rupert, who went online for the first time when he was 10 years old and confesses his passion for the web was “love at first sight”, dropped out of high school when he was 14. He taught himself how to code, started building websites for people and moved onto web hosting. He had 30 customers in his small web hosting business before he joined up with Matthew Tagg in 2003 to set up Web Africa, which developed from a hosting only business to the full service Internet Service Provider it is today.
His advice to people wanting to work in the web industry? “Find what you’re passionate about because passion, not money, is what’s going to get you up in the morning. Educate yourself and find good people that you can work with, who can drive you and make you a better person.”
Read the full interview, which was published on Fin24 on 30 April 2014.
