delivery boy set up a business in the garage of his parents' home that is now worth billions. Ben Francis was just 19 when he started Gymshark while studying and working at Pizza Hut in the evenings.The 28-year-old confirmed on Friday that the company had struck a whopping £1billion investment deal.
This means his stake of the Solihull based company, which is around 70 per cent, is more than £700million. Mr Francis could now be the UK's richest self-made person under the age of 30, Manchester Evening News reports.
He told Sky News : "It has been an incredible ride over the last eight years to get to this point, but today signals the next chapter in the Gymshark story. "We are nothing without our community, so we will use this new.
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