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...time to go back to the kitchen table. Many pages of crumpled paper later, they had a new idea: education. Hadfield had spent 13 years in classrooms; his father had been an education correspondent and his mother was a teacher who had tried - and failed - to find information online...
...Media Age, a British trade magazine, named Schoolsnet its 2000 Start-up of the Year, and funding has been problem-free, even in the dismal dotcom climate. So what's Hadfield doing with his off-line wealth? His answer: there's not much of it. DMGT paid only something in the "mid-six figures" for Soccernet. (In 1999, Disney paid $25 million for 60% of the site and bought the rest a year later for an undisclosed sum.) While Hadfield's Soccernet stake was valued at about $11 million in a financing round last April, that's just paper wealth...
...typical answer from Hadfield, a self-confessed business geek who claims to care more about entrepreneurial process than profits. Nor is he a techie, despite his new media credentials: "The computer and the Internet are just tools that allowed me to take part in a world I wanted to be in." They were also his ticket to the 2001 World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow. Meeting people like billionaire George Soros and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus "was inspirational," he says. "I was hanging on every word...
...Perhaps his biggest challenge has been to maintain a semblance of teenage normalcy. It's not easy to do a cnn interview live from Davos one week and be back in class studying for the upcoming A-level exams the next. It helps that Hadfield commutes to Schoolsnet's London headquarters only once or twice a week; the firm's tech operations, which he oversees, are based in his hometown of Brighton. He also guards his off hours fiercely, saving time to watch England soccer games with friends and to go nightclub hopping, "especially if I have...
...While he's not certain about his future, Hadfield does plan to go to university. But first he wants to spend a year working abroad, perhaps on a computer literacy project in India or at the U.S.-based Internet authority icann. Oh, the options! Sometimes, Hadfield says, the choices give him "brain overload." If finding a new path is too much, there's always the old. At this rate, he could squeeze in a dozen more start-ups before he hits retirement...