Jamal Edwards is just 23 years old, but already the owner of SBTV, a broadcasting company worth £8m that makes pop music videos posted on YouTube.

Jamal’s parents gave Jamal a video camera as a Christmas gift when he was 15.  As soon as he got the video camera, he could not live without it. He started to film his friends singing and uploaded the video to YouTube. As Jamal left school and entered a clothing company, he didn’t stop pursuing his dream—making videos. The great quality of his videos attracts more professional rapper and singers as the videos got hundreds of thousands of hits. His videos were soon put under SBTV and began to earn advertising revenue from YouTube.

This is a story about entrepreneurship and how a boy starts up a business based on his own interest. But I have to say that Jamal is lucky. He didn’t make a business model or make any predictions before the start-up but he succeeded surprisingly. However lean start-up idea makes a point. The predicted business plans are inaccurate most of times and thus mostly nonsense, and the key is how Jamal further renewed the business model and branched out his business. SBTV planned to expand the contents of video from purely music to other musical genres or even other fields such as sports, comedy and fashion. No wonder why Jamal was recently caught in the front row of London Fashion Week!

Jamal Edwards

Reference:

Smale, Will. “Jamal Edwards: Amateur Film-maker Turned Multimillionaire.” BBC News. BBC, 11 Nov. 2013. Web. 15 Nov. 2013. <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24801980>.