Philipps cuts the ribbon at a Just Develop It Literacy Lab
INTERVIEW rounds from a local agency before subbing them out to his close friends . By the age of 16 , he was selling web hosting space to his father – the beginnings of the business that was to become Dot5hosting , the £ 10 per month service that would eventually attract thousands of customers .
“ It was kind of a case of right place , right time as the industry was just taking off ,” explains Phillips . “ I was in a nice bubble where anyone who was much younger than I was couldn ’ t do it , as they were still in school . Anyone that was too much older didn ’ t really have a grasp of what the internet was , so to speak , and they were already set in their jobs or university courses anyway . Everyone wanted a website though , it was the . com boom . Everyone wanted a site , everyone wanted an email , everyone wanted an online presence . And it just snowballed from there .” Dot5hosting ’ s eventual sale to
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