Gauthier Van Malderen
(Picture: Gauthier Van Malderen)Gauthier Van Malderen was studying economics and entrepreneurship at Cambridge, wincing at that universal student experience of spending “£200-plus on textbooks but only needing one chapter from each.” Some amongst us might have turned to some not-very-legal photocopying.
Not Van Malderen - he decided to start a textbook subscription website, Perlego. Its fortunes have soared since the pandemic forced millions of university students to flee their campuses - and turnover at the ‘Spotify for textbooks’ is set to hit $30 million this year.
