E39: Jamal Edwards - From Media Student To Multimillionaire

Jamal Edwards, MBE. The normal guy working in Top Shop. That became an amateur filmmaker and turned into a multi millionaire. Starting out, Jamal was one of the youngest successful black entrepreneurs in the UK. And when I started my business, he was someone that I admired and looked up to tremendously. I remember stalking him online.

And one day when he did a Skype group chat, I asked him a question and that meant the world to me. Well today I get to ask him a few more. Jamal was born in Luton, and at the age of fifteen he rapped with his friends under the name Smoky Bars On a twenty pound camera phone. His first video was simple.

Just him filming foxes on his local estate. These videos would eventually become his business. And the beginning of the brand which we all know called SBTV. In two thousand six, Jamal launched SP T V the first new media business on YouTube. Getting a fan base of over one million subscribers and over six hundred million views in a very short amount of time.

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