Freddie Figgers: The millionaire tech inventor who was 'thrown away' as a baby
By Lucy Wallis
BBC News
Published9 hours ago
Freddie Figgers was given his first computer at the age of nine. It was old and didn't work but it was the start of a love affair with technology that turned him into an inventor, entrepreneur and telecoms millionaire - a future that few would have predicted after his tough start in life.
"Don't let your circumstances define who you are."
Just one piece of advice 31-year-old entrepreneur Freddie Figgers would like to pass on to others.
When he was eight years old, he asked his father, Nathan, about the circumstances of his birth, and the reply was unforgettable.
"He said, 'Listen I'm going to shoot it to you straight, Fred. Your biological mother, she threw you away, and me and Betty Mae, we didn't want to send you through foster care and we adopted you, and you're my son.'"
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https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-57081087
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Older article from the Washington Post:
Abandoned as a newborn and called ‘dumpster baby,’ he’s now an entrepreneur worth millions
By Cathy Free
Dec. 4, 2019 at 5:00 a.m. CST
Hours after he was born in 1989, Freddie Figgers was set down next to a dumpster in a rural area of Florida’s panhandle.
A passerby found him alone and in distress, and called police. The infant was hospitalized with minor injuries for two days, then placed in a foster home. The couple who took him in, Nathan and Betty Figgers, lived in nearby Quincy, Fla., and already had a daughter.
Shortly after Freddie began living with them, the Figgerses — who often took in foster children — decided to adopt him.
In elementary school, Freddie Figgers said, other children would bully him and call him “dumpster baby” when they learned he had been put out with the garbage as a newborn.
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His life hit a turning point when he was 9, he said, when his father paid $25 for a broken 1989 Macintosh computer at a thrift shop. Nathan Figgers, who was a maintenance worker at Florida State University, brought the computer home and set it on the kitchen table so his son could tinker with it.
“He thought that a computer might help to keep me out of trouble,” said Figgers.
His father was right. Figgers took it apart and put in back together several times. He figured out that he could get it to power on when he installed some components he found in an old radio that belonged to his father.
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Freddie Figgers at his home with the thrift store Macintosh that his father bought him for $25. (Freddie Figgers)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2019/12/04/abandoned-newborn-called-dumpster-baby-hes-now-an-entrepreneur-worth-millions/
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