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I dropped out of school and was homeless at 15 sleeping in a stairwell… now I’m a multi-millionaire
A MAN who dropped out of school and was homeless at 15 is now a multi-millionaire.
Simon Squibb, 49, was a teen sleeping in a stairwell when he started his first business - a gardening firm.
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Now and says he is a millionaire.
The self-made man spent 20 years in Hong Kong, where he founded marketing firm Fluid.
In 2015 Simon sold Fluid to global accounting giant Price Waterhouse Coopers for a life-changing sum.
He now runs HelpBnk, a networking app where start-up founders can swap tips.
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His website reads: "Simon is the founder of the world's first Help2Earn system, a platform that helps people learn how to start and scale a business for free while those that help get paid.
"Simon's mission is to help 10 million people start a business of their own, and fix the education system."
The entrepreneur also shared business tips on Instagram, where he has 374,000 followers.
He recently bought a disused four-storey stairwell like the one he used to live in - and plans to turn it into rent-free office space for start-ups.
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Simon told : "It just captured my imagination. I thought of my first business, a gardening company, while I was sleeping in a stairwell when I was 15 and I was homeless.
"I kind of think this is the height of craziness when a staircase is now being sold off.
"The worst outcome will be that we just make this our walk-in office, where we can meet people and they can tell us their dreams."
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