Rocket Internet is one of the most successful startup builders in the world.
It started by creating versions of some of the biggest tech firms and most innovative startups, scaling them incredibly quickly in markets the originals weren't serving.
Its three founders, brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer, wanted to found a company from a young age. They certainly succeeded. Rocket Internet's IPO last year saw their own company valued at €6.5 billion (around £4.6 billion, $8.2 billion)
Despite his insistence to the contrary, Oliver Samwer is seen as the driving force behind Rocket. Famously elusive, Samwer rarely speaks to the press, and has even walked out of interviews in the past.
Oliver Samwer was born in 1972 in Cologne, Germany. He's two years younger than his older brother Marc and three years older than his younger brother Alexander.
Both of Samwer's parents were lawyers. Their father, Sigmar-Jürgen Cologne Samwer, was fairly well-known in Cologne, having represented literature Nobel Prize Winner and Karl Carstens, who later became President of Germany.
Marc, Oliver and Alexander aren't the only founders in the Samwer family. Their great-grandfather Karl Samwer created German insurance company Gothaer Versicherung.
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