In the , or almost always, there is a seasoning that makes your narrative richer. Those with the name of a self-help book: “From a misfortune, an opportunity”, which make mortals see the glass half full at the end of a bad day.
The case of Rupert Hunt, creator of , has all the ingredients to sit down to read his story and see how, after a moment of solitude, of divorce, he reconsidered his life and with it, based on his needs, he managed to build an empire that today leave annual profits of 10 to 15 billion dollars.
This British entrepreneur created in 2004, at the age of 29, SpareRoom, a website to rent rooms in a shared house in London that was aimed at a profile of students or young people in their twenties. What he never thought: that he himself would become his own client.
At 38 years old, the businessman divorced his wife and, unable to face loneliness, decided to live together. At that time he became a user of his own business. In 2013, he advertised rooms for rent on his property, and yes, on the very site he created and launched to fame.
“Pay what you can pay”
Hunt lived in a £3 million house in the heart of London. That gave it a “Grade II” status to rent at higher prices, however, the businessman offered the rooms on a “pay what you can afford” basis.
“It was all about living with the right people,” he explains in an article published in Love Money magazine. “I didn’t want to reduce the pool of people by putting a high rate on rooms that could have discounted people.”
“Intellectually I had understood my business very deeply, but emotionally I had not understood it in the same way,” he confesses. “I was divorced and missed being around the house,” she says. Today, at 47, Rupert still lives in a shared house and assures that he “is far from the only professional of that age who lives that way.”
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