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Freddy Figgers..the millionaire inventor
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Alaa Jarrad
Garad@alaagarad.com
06 September 2021
Only 8% of people manage to achieve their goals and overcome the challenges they face, let alone a two-day-old child thrown into the street, this is what happened to a baby (Freddy) who was abandoned and adopted when he was two days old by Nathan Figers, The maintenance worker, and his wife, Betty, the farm worker. Freddy grew up in Florida, USA in very difficult conditions, and was harassed by his schoolmates, but he had great confidence in himself and a strong passion for repairing old electrical appliances and equipment, and when he was nine he got a computer that did not work, he succeeded in repairing it by welding Parts of the clock radio to the circuit board.
When he was 12, he started repairing and maintaining computers at his school during an after-school program, so the principal who was the mayor hired him to fix the computers at City Hall. He excelled in programming, running a program to check water pressure gauges in the city, then dropping out of school at the age of 15 to start work fixing computers in a backyard shack. He launched his own cloud storage service in 2005, and funded subsequent expansion by writing software for clients. At sixteen, he founded Figures Communications, and started Figures Wireless Communications, at 19, receiving a communications license. To provide Internet access to rural areas of northern Florida and neighboring southern Georgia.
At the age of 21, he was the youngest telecom operator in the United States, and as of February 2020 Figures Communications was the only black-owned telecom operator in the country. In 2014, the company introduced a smartphone, the Figgers F1, which includes a patented device to run "safe mode" at 10 miles per hour or more, to prevent texting while driving, and finally developed a non-conductive wireless charger that the company is seeking to obtain. Permission from the Federal Communications Commission to produce it. Freddy's inventions included a GPS tracker that he embedded with a two-way communication device in the sole of his father's shoes, after Nathan Figers fell ill with Alzheimer's and began to forget where he was. He sold the rights to the tracker for $2.1 million in January 2014, and later developed a connected glucose meter With the Internet to transmit patients' glucose levels to their doctor and alert him in the event of an abnormality.
Figgers also offers credit and insurance, FiggCash, and his other company, Figgers Health, produces technology to help patients with chronic health problems.
Figers is married to attorney Natalie Figers.
He runs a foundation that helps disadvantaged children and families, and provides grants for education and healthcare projects.
Freddie Figgers says don't let your circumstances define who you are.
Yes, difficult circumstances can push us to success, growth, self-realization and community service.
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