Alexander ‘Solly’ Solomou cashes in £50m of shares and retains a stake valued at about £150m
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The 30-year-old founder of LadBible, the company born out of a sexist
Facebook page that became one of the one of the biggest global publishers on
Social Media, is worth £200m after his business floated on the stock market.
Alexander “Solly” Solomou, who created the Manchester-based media company while studying business management at the University of Leeds, has cashed in shares worth £50m and retains a stake worth about £150m in the listed LadBible Group.