Rafal Brzoska is Poland's newest billionaire and it took a pandemic to elevate his net worth to the three comma club. The 44-year-old is the founder of InPost SA, a postal-locker company. Shares in his company have surged more than 32% since it made its debut on the Amsterdam stock market on January 26
th. The IPO valued the company at $9.7 billion, making Brzoska's 12% stake worth $1.5 billion. Brzoska is the CEO of InPost, which started out as a logistics company and over the course of five years, has morphed into a technology company.
Brzoska created the company Integer.pl in 1999 while he was a student at Krakow University of Economics. Integer.pl distributed bulk mail advertising leaflets for pizza restaurants as well as a range of other businesses. He moved on to challenge Poland's post office by offering cheaper delivery of utility bills. Poland's private postal services have a minimum weight requirement. To subvert this, Brzoska inserted small metal plates in each piece of mail. In 2013, he successfully landed a contract to deliver letters for Poland's judicial system. He also started working on his idea for a network of parcel lockers located in public places. That idea became InPost, which allows customers to pick up and drop off packages from the parcel lockers instead of waiting for packages to be delivered at home. People access the lockers with codes sent via text message.