‘I’m a millionaire and spend my money on Lime Bikes, Diet Cokes and 150 eggs a week’

To take part in How I Spend It, please email money@telegraph.co.uk. All our subjects are genuine but anonymous. This week, in a rare exception, our subject has chosen to reveal their identity. I was born in Hackney, London, but moved to Ghana to live with my grandmother when I was three months old, remaining there for 10 years. Returning to London in my teens, I lived in a council estate on the Old Kent Road in a flat with my father. We never had a lot of money and I think this put some steely determination in me. I won a sixth-form scholarship to the independent school, Christ’s Hospital, where boarding fees are more than £12,000 per term and in 2017, despite a lack of industry contacts, I founded a social media advertising business called Fanbytes. I sold it to a larger advertising firm called Brainlabs for an eight-figure sum. Growing up, one thing I didn’t have was enough role models that looked like me who were not in sports or entertainment, that could show me it was possible to change my financial life. This is why I’m vocal on social media and equally why I wanted to do this...

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