At first glance, Akshay Ruparelia from Harrow, North East London is your regular, ambitious 21-year-old.
But take a look at his CV, and the young entrepreneur, who is now worth an estimated £18million, is on a mission to transform the property market.
Ruparelia, who was the youngest person on the Sunday Times Rich List last year, is the founder of Doorsteps.co.uk, the "Uber" of the property world, which he started from his bedroom at just 17.
The now managing director, who completed college in 2016 with a string of A*s, now says it's high time Britain changed its archaic grading system to make way for the next generation of "young, bright, well-rounded" business leaders.
He says the world needs to learn to welcome talent - beyond the traditional pen to paper method.
Ruparelia's own company, Doorsteps wants to become Britain's biggest estate agent, offering homeowners fixed, fair and affordable pricing.
It was set up at just 17 after Ruparelia managed the sale of his family home.
Inspired, he raised almost £400,000 with investors via Crowdcube in return for just over 3% of his business. He combined this with a £7,000 loan from relatives, which enabled him to launch Doorsteps outside of his four walls.
And his business model is sound, too.
Instead of the 2-3% commission most property agents apply to a sale - which Ruparelia says averages out as £10,000 a home in London - Doorsteps charges just £99.
He recalls the moment he realised it really had potential - when he found out he'd made his first sale during his lunch break at school.
It was a five-bedroom detached property with a swimming pool but without a car, it was a tough sale, with Ruparelia having to pay his sister's boyfriend to take him to the property to take photos.
"It was an unexpected customer from East Sussex who had stumbled across our site. I went and took photos, and sold it for half a million pounds within three weeks, and he paid me £99. It proved our model works," he said.
The owner also decided to sell land next to the house through Doorsteps, which resulted in the company selling £650,000 worth of property for him in total.
"I saw the email and was overjoyed by the fact I had proved our concept and mission. He spread the word and it started growing slowly from there," Ruparelia said.
The company's annual turnover is now £1milion - but he says he wants to reach £6million by next year.
And the potential is there.
Ruparelia, who has previously been dubbed the Alan Sugar in the making, estimates he's saved customers £4 million in fees so far. The website has a 91% 'excellent' satisfaction rate on Trustpilot, and almost 2,000 scores from pleased customers.
He now says the Government needs to do more to support the next wave of emerging entrepreneurs.
Spending much of his life as a young carer to his parents, who are both deaf but who handled two jobs each, he said: "I've always had an entrepreneurial spirit and ambition, whether it was selling sweets at school when I was 12 or 13, or something else.
"Being a young carer along with my sister gave me more responsibility at a younger age, which meant I developed resilience and maturity. It helped with my personal development and I learned to take risks.
“I think we need to change, culturally, away from the constrictions of a simple, monotone grading system and start to understand that we need to develop young, bright, well-rounded individuals – whether entrepreneurs or not,” Ruparelia told Mirror Money.
“The grading system does not capture more holistic soft skills – communication, leadership, and so on.
"Schools alone can try to harness this through extracurricular opportunities to reach beyond their comfort zones and offering more opportunity for kids to fail and learn from the failures, in the safe ecosphere that they’re in.
"If you don't achieve the grades you want this year, don't worry. Employers have become much more receptive to skill-sets and varied experiences; in some cases, prioritising this over your university degree (and whether you have one). We are lucky to be in an era of openness and experimentation which some of our previous generations didn't have, and endless possibility with the internet. Let's utilise it!"
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