Raised as a foster family, Jonathan ANGUELOV has always wanted to aim higher than what it was predestined. He had “nothing to succeed”, and yet this entrepreneur founded a company valued at more than a billion euros and made a fortune in real estate. Here are his precious tips for succeeding in life.
Jonathan ANGUELOV did not have a common education to that of most other children. His mother, of Bulgarian origin, immigrated to Paris, but quickly sank into depression and alcoholism after being swapped. Born of an unknown father, Jonathan was then placed in three host families and a home, from the age of 12 to 19 years. “”My world rocks, I discover the ZEP, the fights with the young people of the city, hunger, cold, cockroaches, unsanitary conditions, loneliness, the system D … I feel different from other children, but this difference will be my chance “he wrote in his book “Nothing to lose“Published by Alisio editions. What was most difficult to liveThe feeling of difference, of not being like the others, the fact of always having something to prove … Normally, a child does not have much to have to prove, apart“, Said Jonathan. So, he learns to fend for himself, to count only on himself.
At the age of 19, he contracts a student loan and bought a studio to rent it and so on up to 10 service rooms, each time obtaining a student loan in another bank. An idea of genius, which allows him to pay his studies and finally have a comfortable life. “I already knew how much I would rent good, it was just a story of sequence, that’s what paid for my studies, I worked until I was 22, and then at one point, I no longer needed to work“, He explains to us. At this age, he already earns nearly 5,000 euros per month. Then, in 2014, he created, with the help of three partners, Aircall, a company specializing in corporate telephony, valued at more than a billion euros. But after ten years, Jonathan prefers to return to his first loves: real estate. times, Parisian hotels the first of which is that of a district of the 18ᵉ arrondissement of the capital: Maison Barbès.
In his book, the entrepreneur who became a multimillionaire tells how he reached this success, and according to him, success is within everyone’s reach. “”Success, I see it a bit like a decision tree, and each decision counts in the completion of a project or a career. Each choice I made led me slowly, but surely that. If I did it, everyone can do it“, assures us Jonathan, from his experience, he draws conclusions and delivers precious advice.”In general, to increase your heritage, we must have goods that bring us money, and not have goods that cost us“, explains the entrepreneur who considers in his work, that it is the number one rule allowing to enrich himself, as he did with the purchase of his studios.
But that’s not all: the key to success is also perseverance, never giving up despite the failures you can meet. It is also listening to criticism to use them in order to improve, but do not make cases of those who discourage us. The founder of Aircall also recommends delegating, to favor quality to avoid wasting time repairing bad things. Another advice that can be used for any entrepreneur in life: go for it without looking back. “That changes everything: if we advance, we have petrol, we become a boat that works“. “Know how to surround yourself with people who bring different and complementary things and visions, because it allows you to shape a project“. As for the most important, according to Jonathan Anguelov, it is to “Doing something with passion, because it’s hard to get up every morning saying” it’s not what I want to do “or” I have a ball in the stomach when I go to the office “… and when we manage to find this thing that fascinates us, it’s never the same again“He says.
Advice that can be useful to everyone to project themselves into life and go to the end of their ambitions. But despite all his successes, Jonathan ANGUELOV has always remained very humble. “”I have nothing exceptional, I am not smarter than another, I may be a little clearer than the average … and again“Another of his qualities which, without a doubt, allowed him to raise mountains.
