PLAYED THE GAME
I constantly bunked off school and was expelled at 15 with NO qualifications – now I’m worth £100m thanks to video games
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A MAN who constantly bunked off school and was expelled at 15 with no qualifications is now worth £100million thanks to video games.
Paul Wedgwood was booted out of his south London school after skipping classes to code games on his ZXS Spectrum.
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The computer whizz turned his life around by landing an IT job at a City bank.
Wedgwood set up gaming websites as a side hustle in his spare time, reports.
In 2001 he set up Splash Damage, the video game firm behind hits like Doom 3 and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
He sold the firm for $150million (£116) to a Chinese chicken supplier in 2016.
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Wedgwood, 54, now invests in gaming start-ups through his private equity firm SuperNova Capital.
His fortune is estimated at £100million and he ranks at no. 15 in .
UK-based gaming companies generated £10.7billion for the economy last year, according to Statista data.
But industry body Ukie said more than 1,000 jobs have been cut in the UK gaming industry since the end of the pandemic boom.
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By far the richest people on Gaming Rich List are brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman.
The brothers grew up in poverty in post-Soviet Russia before launching mobile gaming firm Playrix.
Igor and Dmitry started the company on an old Pentium PC which their grandad bought for them.
They have now amassed a £12.5billion fortune - totalling more than 70 per cent of all known gaming wealth in the UK.
Britain's 5 richest gaming titans
- Igor and Dmitry Bukhman - £12.54 billion
- Herman Narula - £780 million
- Riccardo Zacconi - £410 million
- Dan and Sam Houser - £350 million
- Lior Shiff - £347 million
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