The world's youngest millionaires

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

The world's youngest millionaires sold eggs and made jam, painted and squeezed butter.… This review provides examples from the life of students and schoolchildren who were not afraid to take risks, and now they are on top of the world.

Facebook

Like almost all young millionaires, a simple student from Harvard, a native of an average American family, once did not even think about billions. Mark Zuckerberg was simply fond of programming and periodically launched entertaining programs on the Internet. One of his creations was Winamp, a simple and convenient media player that analyzes the user's musical preferences.

One fine day, Mark Zuckerberg, sitting in his dorm room at the university, launched a modest project - the social network Facebook. Today, his creation is the most popular "social network" in the world, and among other sites for various purposes, it ranks sixth in the rating. Thanks to Facebook, one day a simple student woke up famous, and today his fortune is estimated at several billion dollars.

Saletickets online at Showclix

Once Joshua Dzyabyak created his own site for the sale of hosting - Mediacatch. Having promoted the service, he managed to sell it for $1 million. At that time, the guy was only 18 years old. The proceeds were enough for him to buy a new prestigious car and an LCD TV.

But this is just the beginning of the story of a millionaire! Joshua invested part of the proceeds in his new projects, which included the ShowClix service. The project helps organizations such as concert halls distribute tickets. For each purchase in the ShowClix system, the site charges a commission of a few cents. With these minimal fees, Joshua Dziabiak makes about $10 million every year.

Prom Virtual Albums

Katherine Cook, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from the USA, knows firsthand how millionaires become without any prerequisites. One day, she decided to bring ordinary school albums into the world of virtual reality. After convincing her older brother to trust her idea, Katherine launched her own project with his help - an interactive version of the alumni album. It was in 2005, and at that time there was not a single similar idea on the Internet.

By 2006, brother and sister were able to attract investors to their business, a little later, flash-games and online chats appeared on the project. By 2008, the largest American advertisers, including Disney itself, began to be interested in the service. The number of social network users did not break Facebook records, but Katherine did notneed. Her project became the third most popular in the US, and then MyYearbook.com was bought by the Quepasa social network. Now brother and sister Cook are millionaires. Until the age of 25, they managed to make a fortune, which is estimated at seven figures.

Superjam

14-year-old Fraser Doherty, an ordinary boy from the UK, was very attached to his grandmother, often helping her in the kitchen and most of all loved her signature jam. One day, Fraser decided to treat his neighbors and acquaintances with his favorite delicacy.

Soon the news about the delicious jam spread around the district, and the boy began to receive orders for large quantities. At the age of 16, Fraser had already rented a small factory and converted it to the production of jam and preserves. By the age of 19, the young man had earned his first million.

Extraordinary taste of goodies, a simple story of a guy and his love for his grandmother and her recipes did their job. Today, Superjam jams and jams are the UK's largest supplier of jams and jams, with a strong market position.

MyDesktop

Brilliant ideas are always in the palm of your hand or born in the most unexpected places. All young millionaires can attest to this rule. No exception and Michael Furdyk, who one day decided to launch his website directly from the basement of his parents in their house in Canada. 16-year-old Michael came up with the idea to publish tips on how computers work, which he found in various chat rooms on the Web.

By 1999, his MyDesktop project was bringing in over $60thousand per month. Michael later sold the site to Internet.com.

Chicken farm at 3 years old

Ryan Ross is the youngest millionaire in the world. He started his business at the age of 3, selling the eggs of domestic hens, which were bred by the boy's parents. He offered neighbors to buy a dozen eggs at a price of $3, the boy helped out up to $60 a day.

Later he began to take orders for mowing and watering the lawns, but since he could not hold either the hose or the lawn mower on his own, he paid the older guys for the work, giving them half of his earnings. So he started making $5 to $100 an hour doing absolutely nothing.

The accumulated money Ryan Ross decided - naturally, not without the participation of his parents - to invest in real estate, acquiring several buildings in Canada and Colombia. Later on the list of his acquisitions were basketball and hockey courts. Today, the boy's fortune is estimated at $ 9,000,000, while 8-year-old Ryan still does not have a mobile phone - mom and dad do not allow it.

Fuel from plants

Daniel Gomez Iñiguez has developed a technology that allows you to get fuel from the pomace of plants. The guy did not have the funds to manufacture products, so he acted like many young millionaires - he started looking for investors. The first client at the same time became the first investor - with half of the funds from the order, the boy implemented the press project and produced the initial batch of goods.

During the year of its existence, the company for the production of fuel, which the boynamed Solben, raised about $1 million in investments. Today, the firm is thriving, and 20-year-old Daniel has just entered college.

Miss O and Miss O and Friends

Juliet Brindak started her journey to success at the age of 10. It was then that the girl drew her Miss O, the heroine of future projects. Juliette was surprised to learn that Miss O likes not only herself, but also her friends. Then she came up with the idea to make the heroine virtual, placing her at the center of an interactive community for girls on the Internet.

Today Miss O and Friends is one of the most popular projects for girls aged 8+. The site has a lot of games for girls, questionnaires, chat for communication and, of course, Miss O herself. The creator of the project had barely managed to enter the university by the time of success. Work on the site and study have to be combined.

Beautiful profiles on MySpace

Ashley Kwales, a 14-year-old girl from America, was fond of drawing and design. During the rise of the social media era, she noticed that her girlfriends would be interested in decorating their personal MySpace profiles. Ashley could help the girls in a jiffy, so she created some page designs and posted her work on her own site.

Soon, Yahoo noticed the high level of popularity of Ashley's website. The total number of visits to her MySpace wallpaper pages exceeded one million unique users! And most of them belonged to the category of "teenage girls". From point of viewmost advertisers, this category is the most active on the Internet, so the Whateverlife site, as Ashley called it, quickly found its partners for cooperation.

Today, the annual income from the project of a young American woman exceeds $1 million. At the same time, Ashley's initial investment was $ 8, which she borrowed from her mother. This is how little girls become millionaires without a penny in their pocket!

Online sale of glasses

Jamie Murray Wells once received a prescription for ordering and buying glasses. The young man was unpleasantly surprised by the high cost of the thing he needed - $300! Then he had to buy glasses made using a special technology. Wells bought them at an affordable price, and he liked the quality of the optical device so much that the guy decided to organize the sale of such glasses via the Internet.

Jamie ends up dropping out and investing his full $2,000 into his project. $34 million dollars. Impressive, isn't it?

Mushroom seller

One day, a 15-year-old teenager from the United States, Jan Purkayastha, decided to start importing a delicacy product - truffles. But the young man had to deal with some of the obstacles to a successful business. In Arkansas, where Yang resided, imports of delicaciescontrolled by local governments, so it took a lot of work to make sure the delivery was in line with federal laws.

Yan's task was complicated by the short shelf life of truffles - only 7 days. Then a 15-year-old teenager, who is fond of picking mushrooms, decided to organize his own truffle nursery - the first in the United States. Today the boy is rightfully called a truffle tycoon. Its products are bought by the best restaurants in New York, including Michelin-starred ones.

What makes Tartufi Unlimited so successful? Experts say that the reason lies in Yang's age. Most of his peers think only about music, computer games and clubs. And Jan Purkayastha just sells mushrooms. Priced at $4,000 per kilogram.

Business on your favorite songs

As practice shows, many young millionaires did not even plan to go into business. Milan Tesovic started his business with entertainment. The teenager liked to collect the lyrics of his favorite songs. Milan collected them all on one resource, which he created with his own hand.

In 2004, his hobby gradually turned into a business. The Metrolyrics website has collected more than 2 million songs, and Milan's earnings from the sale of advertising spaces are expressed in six figures. When the guy got rich, he was 21 years old.

Microblogging on Tumbrl

The Tumbrl microblogging platform is now popular even among major politicians, Barack Obama himself has his own account on the project. The creator of the Tumbrl platform is David Karp, who at that time was only 19 years old. Before deciding to create his own project, David changed several places of study, completed home schooling and several courses, gained work experience.

In 2006, a young man decided to give up his regular office job and started working for himself. His project Tumbrl became so famous that the number of unique visits in some months exceeded 13 million users.

Creator of Red Fox

This is one of the "great geek" stories that all aspiring programmers and IT professionals look up to. Blake Aaron Ross started programming websites at a young age. He created his first brainchild at the age of 10.

And it was a full-fledged and worthy Internet resource. Then the 15-year-old teenager was invited to Netscape, where he became friends with a work colleague, Dave Hawitt. So, combining study and work, a 19-year-old guy, along with Hawitt, created the second most popular Internet browser - Mozilla Firefox.

Today, Ross does not stop working on his brainchild. But the guy has a lot of other projects. At the same time, the young talent manages to hold the post of director of products at Zuckerberg's company.

Hype Machine

As you may have noticed, almost all the young millionaires of the world mentioned above are residents of the USA or Canada. But in this corner of the Earth, the light did not converge like a wedge. In ourThe country also has lucky ones. Who are they - the young millionaires of Russia?

Surprisingly, the successful guy of Russian origin, who was on this list, created his brilliant creation thanks to … laziness! At the age of 9, Anton Volodkin, together with his parents, changed his place of residence from Moscow to New York. By the age of 17, the young man started working at Brainlink. According to Anton himself, the only opportunity for emotional release for him at that time was music.

But looking for new and interesting tracks was too tiring for the guy, which also took a lot of time. And Anton Volodkin became the creator of Hype Machine - a program that automated the entire process of finding music. The technology found interesting tracks not only in the popular blogs of musicians and the labels themselves - this can be done by many Internet users. The guy was looking for something more original. And he got his way! User interest in the project grew, as they say, by leaps and bounds.

Today the site is visited by more than a million people a month. The recent merger with SoundCloud has opened up new perspectives for Hype Machine and Anton himself.

Random chat

Young millionaires of the world sooner or later accepted help from investors or agreed to sell their own idea. An ordinary student from Moscow, the creator of the sensational project ChatRoulette, refused all these opportunities.

Andrey Ternovsky came up with and launched his website in justthree days. His usual computer desk in the Moscow apartment of his parents became his place of work. By the end of 2009, 17-year-old Andrei revealed his creation to the world, and a real hunt began for the project and its creator. The guy was invited to Europe, they tried to organize meetings with him, and a real fight was launched for his website. As a result, Andrei refused even Yuri Milner. At that time, ChatRoulette was valued at $50 million. True, in his subsequent interviews, the guy said that he managed to regret the refusal.

How to catch luck by the tail

Probably, many would like their fate or the fate of their children to develop in a similar way. This is quite natural: well, who does not want well-being and prosperity for themselves or their loved ones? How can you get on the Forbes list? Young millionaires, in their own words, did not at all seek to break the big jackpot: they started by optimizing what worked poorly, or simply doing what they loved. Some were looking for ideas, others realized other people's thoughts. But according to Jack Ma, creator and owner of AliBaba and China's richest man, it's all about ambition. If you are not rich and you are over 35 years old, then you have lived your life in vain …