At 38, Jonathan Anguelov is now everything a successful entrepreneur should be: he co-founded Aircall, a company valued at more than a billion euros, and runs a real estate investment company. However, at the age of 12, when he found himself in foster care, his future seemed less bright. ‘What I have become is very much linked to my past, to that difficult childhood, to that childhood where you get slapped, and where you get back up again,’ he says today. Jonathan Anguelov was “just a kid like any other, who had an enormous thirst for success,” he explains in an interview with AFP. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES