Meet Rupert Bryant – Webafrica’s co-founder

Our co-founder, Rupert Bryant, part of Fin24’s Young South Africans with a Difference series, was interviewed by Fin24 about how he started Webafrica.

Rupert, who went online for the first time at 10 years old and confesses that his passion for the web was “love at first sight,” dropped out of high school at 14. He taught himself how to code, started building websites for people and moved on to web hosting. He had 30 customers in his small web hosting business before he joined Matthew Tagg in 2003 to set up Webafrica, which grew from a hosting-only business into 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.