Rupert is the founder of Spareroom which he started in 1999. He had moved to London seeking fame and fortune as a musician with the best band name of all time. But the biggest struggle he faced was finding somewhere great to live. He is one of the seminal examples of a startup founder solving their own problem.

20 years later Spareroom has 2 million visitors a month, is rapidly expanding in the US and has never raised a penny of investment…