The online music entrepreneur on Richard Branson, bike races and living like a caveman

Jamal Edwards

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/jamal-edwards-interview-the-online-music-entrepreneur-on-richard-branson-bike-races-and-living-like-a6911426.html

Edwards is the founder of SB.TV, a broadcasting company that makes music videos and features them on its YouTube channel

In an interview with The Independent, Edwards says 'Too much social media gives you a headache, damages your eyes. It upsets the whole system'.

British internet entrepreneur, Jamal Edwards has a net worth of $45 million.

Jamal is the creator of SB.TV (SmokeyBarz) and now owns Just Jam, a subsidiary label of Sony record. SB.TV is an online broadcaster that has attracted millions of hits for its artists, including Professor Green and Ed Sheeran. He started SB.TV at the age of 16 with a video camera he got for Christmas

Nick Duerden had an in-depth interview with the millionaire about his general lifestyle, he says "School grades don't define your life I wasn't very good at school. I didn't get the grades I needed to get into college, so I had to do an extra year. But the subjects didn't interest me. I preferred practical stuff to theoretical"

He also goes on to mention that his ambition is to be an inspiration "Kids say to me they want to look up to someone like Richard Branson, but it's hard as he is not within their reach. I tell them that I'm friends with Richard Branson. He is within my reach, and I am in their reach. He inspires me, and I hope I inspire others likewise"

Although not your typical weekly news article, this is very inspirational as it shows that you can literally start from something so small and make something very massive out of it. The Independent is regarded as coming from the centre-left, on culture and politics so by promoting a story like Edwards, is showing just how cultural they can be.