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CEO Secrets: 'My billion-pound company has no office'





In just two years, Johnny Boufarhat has turned his online conference-hosting platform, Hopin, into a company valued at over £4bn.

He employs more than 650 people, but some of them he's never met and none of them work from a central office.

According to The Sunday Times Rich List, the 27-year-old is now the UK's youngest self-made billionaire and in a recent round of fundraising Hopin raised $400m from private investors, giving it an impressive valuation of $5.65bn (£4.05bn).

But he likes to do things differently.



"Being a fully-remote company allows us to do things that other companies haven't been able to do before," explains Johnny Boufarhat, from his latest Airbnb rental property in Barcelona, Spain.

Never mind not having a permanent office, this entrepreneur doesn't even have a permanent home.


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The Hopin platform facilitates interactions between delegates, both open and private

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