This African engineer thought business people were crooks until he founded a company and became a billionaire
April 26, 2019 at 02:11 AM EDT
When Mo Ibrahim was growing up in Alexandria, Egypt, he idolized scientists such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein and eventually became a telecommunications engineer. Fast-forward several decades and Ibrahim is now a billionaire business person — something he never expected would happen, because he didn't trust those running companies.