To the heights of the “Olympus”
The life of 32-year-old millionaire inventor Freddie Figgers began, literally, in the trash. A passerby heard the crying of a newborn baby and called the rescue service.
The baby did not stay long in the care of social services, he was adopted by a married couple Nathan and Betty Figgers. Since it was in the tiny town of Quincy, Florida, it was not possible to conceal the circumstances of his birth from the local community. The boy suffered from mockeries at school, he was teased and nicknamed “trash”.
Freddie was lucky with foster parents. They did everything possible to ensure that the child received the main thing in childhood – love and warmth. When the boy began to grow up, his father decided to channel his energy into a peaceful channel and bought an old computer from a local pawnshop for only $25.
As Freddie recalls, the parent wanted to distract him from wandering in the streets. Unexpectedly, the hobby fascinated the teenager so much that he began to spend all his free time repairing and improving his Mac. He was so successful that by the age of 13 he had received his first clients, including even the city administration. His company Figgers Communications appeared when the guy was only 16 years old.
It is now worth more than sixty million dollars. Back in those years it was a small project to repair computer equipment. Later, Freddie began to create custom websites and was responsible for data security in the cloud.
The guy received the first patent for inventing a tracker that allows tracking the location of the patient. He created it when his father’s Alzheimer’s disease began to progress and he periodically began to leave the house. Back then Freddie was in his early 20s, but technologies that make it easier to care for patients are a priority for developments in his company even now. According to the inventor, he follows the example of his parents, who tried to make the world a little better.
By the way, he never looked for his biological parents, but still, information about his mother eventually became known. The woman was a drug-addicted representative of the oldest profession. It is not surprising that by sending the child to the dumpster, she gave him a chance for another life.
Freddie Figgers did not receive a higher education. All his time was devoted to business and the development of new technologies, but he founded a foundation that provides scholarships for the training of talented youth. In addition, the millionaire actively sponsors elderly and low-income people, paying for their communal expenses and helping with housing.
Freddie Figgers is happily married and has two children. He still keeps the same old Mackintosh in his house, with which his hobby began. The hobby that later turned into his life’s work.
