Most of us begin our lives in this world by being born into loving families.
Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case for 32-year-old Freddie Figgers. He was found on the street as a baby after his birth mother left him because she didn’t want him.
“My mother threw me out like regular trash,” he claims. “I’m not going to be here,” he said.
Meanwhile, Nathan and Betty Figgers wanted a son and decided to give Freddie another chance.
As Figgers said in a post on his website, “It’s great that you get to meet people like that, but I’ve never met my biological parents to this day.” did not.
Figgers grew older, it became clear that he had a talent for understanding the physics of electrical equipment. Before his tenth birthday, he began disassembling and reassembling the 1989 computer his father gave him.
He then got his first job as a computer engineer when he was 12 years old. Just three years after he started working on his database in the cloud in his backyard, thereby becoming his boss.
In his adulthood, Figgers started his own telecommunications company, Figgers Communications, even though he did not attend college.