A frontier spirit
He's probably best known for space travel. More accurately, he's admired as the first African cosmonaut to travel to space on a commercial ticket after cashing in an internet consulting company he founded as a final year university student. He's the legendary free spirit who sold Thawte, a company that became the first to produce a full-security encrypted e-commerce web server that was commercially available outside the United States, to US company VeriSign for a hefty sum that made him an instant billionaire, went on to found HBD Venture Capital and The Shuttleworth Foundation — and then triumphantly watched it slowly change the landscape of the internet.
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