The youngest millionaires in the world sold eggs andthey made jam, drew and squeezed butter. ... This review presents examples from the life of students and schoolchildren who were not afraid to take the risk, and now they are on top of the world.
Like almost all young millionaires, simpleA Harvard student, a native of the average American family, had never thought about billions. Mark Zuckerberg was simply interested in programming and periodically launched into the Internet entertaining programs. One of his creations was Winamp, a simple and convenient media player analyzing the user's music preferences.
One day Mark Zuckerberg sitting inhis room in the university dormitory, launched a modest project - the social network Facebook. Today, his creation is the most popular "social sphere" in the world, and among other sites for various purposes takes the sixth line of the rating. Thanks to Facebook, one day a simple student woke up famous, and today his fortune is estimated at several billion dollars.
Joshua Dziabyak once created his own websiteselling hosting - Mediacatch. Having unrolled the service, he managed to sell it for $ 1 million. At that time, the guy was only 18 years old. The money he received was enough for a new prestigious car and LCD-TV.
But the story of a millionaire is just beginning!Part of the proceeds Joshua invested in his new projects, among which was the ShowClix service. The project helps various organizations like concert halls to distribute tickets. For each purchase in the ShowClix system, the site charges a fee of a few cents. Thanks to these minimum fees, Joshua Dzyabiak earns about $ 10 million each year.
How to become millionaires without anyprerequisites, firsthand knows Katherine Cook, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from the United States. One day she decided to transfer ordinary school albums to the world of virtual reality. Having convinced her older brother to trust her idea, with his help Katerin launched her own project - an interactive version of the alumni album. It was in 2005, and at that time there was not a single such idea on the Internet.
By 2006, brother and sister were able to bring toto their business investors, a little later on the project appeared flash-games and online chat rooms. By 2008, the largest American advertisers, including Disney itself, became interested in the service. The number of users of the social network has not broken Facebook records, but Catherine does not need this. Her project became the third most popular in the US, and then MyYearbook.com bought out the social network Quepasa. Now Cook's brother and sister are millionaires. Up to 25 years old, they managed to make a fortune, which is estimated by a seven-digit number.
14-year-old Fraser Doherty, an ordinary boy fromBritain, was very attached to his grandmother, often helped her in the kitchen and most of all loved her copyright jam. Once Fraser decided to treat his neighbors and friends with a favorite delicacy.
Soon the news about delicious jam was sold ondistrict, and the boy began to receive orders for large volumes. At the age of 16, Fraser had already rented a small factory and re-equipped it for the production of jam and jam. By 19, the young man had earned his first million.
The extraordinary taste of delicacy, the simple story of a guyand his love for his grandmother and her recipes did the trick. Today, Superjam jams and jams are the largest supplier of such products in the UK, firmly holding positions in the market.
Brilliant ideas always lie in the palm of your hand orborn in the most unexpected places. All young millionaires can confirm this rule. Michael Furdyk, who once decided to launch his website directly from the parents' basement at their home in Canada, is no exception. 16-year-old Michael came up with the idea to publish tips on the work of computers, which he found in various chats on the web.
By 1999, his project MyDesktop brought more than $ 60 thousand per month. Later, Michael still sold the website of the corporation Internet.com.
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 the boy’s parents bred. He offered his neighbors to buy a dozen eggs at a price of $ 3, a day the boy rescued up to $ 60.
Later he began taking orders for a haircut and watering.lawns, but since I couldn’t hold the hose or the lawnmower myself, I paid for the work to the older guys, giving them half of my earnings. So he began to earn from 5 to 100 dollars per hour, doing absolutely nothing.
Накопленные деньги Райан Росс решил – Of course, it’s not without parental involvement to invest in real estate by purchasing several buildings in Canada and Colombia. Later in the list of its acquisitions were basketball and hockey grounds. Today, the boy's fortune is estimated at $ 9,000,000, while the 8-year-old Ryan still does not have a mobile phone - mom and dad are not allowed.
Daniel Gomez Inigues developed the technologyallowing to obtain fuel from the squeeze 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 also became the first investor at the same time - a boy realized the project of the press for half the funds from the order and produced the initial batch of goods.
For the year of its existence, the companyfuel production, which the boy gave the name Solben, has attracted investment of about $ 1 million. Today, the company is booming, and 20-year-old Daniel has only recently managed to go to college.
Juliet brindak began her journey to success inage of 10 years. It was then that the girl drew her Miss Oh, the heroine of future projects. Juliet was surprised to learn that Miss O was pleased not only by herself, but also by her friends. Then she had the idea to make the heroine virtual, placing her in the center of an interactive community for girls on the Internet.
Today, Miss O and Friends is one of the mostpopular projects for girls aged 8 years. The site has a lot of games for girls, questionnaires, chat for communication and, of course, Miss O. herself. At the time of success, the creator of the project barely had time to go to university. Work on the site and study have to be combined.
Ashley Kvols, a 14-year-old girl from America,was fond of drawing and design. During the formation of the era of social networks, she noticed that her friends would be interested in decorating personal profiles on MySpace. Ashley could help the girls in two accounts, so she created several page design options and put her work on her own website.
Soon, Yahoo paid attention to highlevel of popularity of the site Ashley. The total number of visits to its pages with wallpapers for MySpace exceeded one million unique users! And most of them belonged to the category of "teenage girls." From the point of view of most advertisers, this category is the most active on the Internet, so the Whateverlife website, as Ashley called it, quickly found its partners for cooperation.
Today, the annual income from the project of a young American womanexceeds $ 1 million dollars. 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 of money in their pockets!
Jamie Murray Wells once got a recipe bywhich he had to order and buy glasses. The young man was unpleasantly surprised by the high cost of the thing needed for him - $ 300! Then he had to buy glasses, made by a special technology. Wells purchased 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.
In the end, Jamie quits school and invests inthe project has all the funds - $ 2,000. His website Glasses Direct earns $ 2 million dollars in the first year after launch, and then begins to actively cooperate with advertisers, attracting investments of up to $ 34 million dollars. Impressive, isn't it?
Once a 15 year old teenager from the USA, Jan Purkayasthadecided to import a deli product - truffles. But the young man had to face some moments hindering successful business. In Arkansas, where Yang lived, the import of delicacies was controlled by local departments, so it was necessary to perform complex work in order to deliver in accordance with federal laws.
The task of Yana complicated and short termstorage of truffles - only 7 days. Then a 15-year-old teenager, keen on picking mushrooms, decided to organize his own truffle nursery - the first in the USA. Today, the boy is rightly called the truffle magnate. Its products are bought by the best restaurants in New York, including those with the Michelin star.
What is the reason for the success of Tartufi Unlimited?Experts say that the reason lies in the age of Jan. Most of his peers think only of music, computer games and clubs. And Jan Purkayastha only sells mushrooms. At a price of $ 4 thousand per kilogram.
Как показывает практика, многие молодые millionaires did not even plan to do business. Milan Teshovich started his business with entertainment. Teen liked to collect lyrics favorite songs. Milan collected them all on one resource, which he created with his own hands.
In 2004, his hobby gradually grew intobusiness. The site Metrolyrics has collected more than 2 million compositions, and the earnings of Milan on the sale of advertising sites is expressed in six-digit numbers. When the guy got rich, he was 21 years old.
Tumbrl microblogging platform todaypopular even among major politicians, Barack Obama himself has his own account on the project. The creator of the platform Tumbrl - David Karp, who at that time was only 19 years old. Before deciding to create his own project, David changed several training places, finished home schooling and several courses, and gained work experience.
В 2006 году молодой человек решил отказаться от normal office work and set to work on himself. His project Tumbrl became so famous that the number of unique visits in some months exceeded 13 million users.
This story is from the series “about the great geeks”, onwhich all ambitious programmers and IT specialists are equal to. Blake Aaron Ross began programming sites as a boy. He created his first child as a 10-year-old child.
And it was a full-fledged and decent online resource.Then a 15-year-old was invited to Netscape, where he became friends with a work colleague, Dave Havitt. So, combining study and work, the 19-year-old guy for a couple with Hevitt created the second most popular Internet browser - Mozilla Firefox.
Today, Ross does not leave work on his brainchild. But the guy has a lot of other projects. In this young talent manages to occupy the post of director of products in the company Zuckerberg.
As you can see, almost all mentionedthe world's tallest young millionaires are residents of the United States or Canada. But in this corner of the earth the light did not converge. In our country, too, there are lucky ones. Who are they - the young millionaires of Russia?
Surprisingly, successful Russian boyorigin, who was on this list, created his brilliant creation thanks to ... laziness! At the age of 9, Anton Volodkin and his parents changed their place of residence from Moscow to New York. By the age of 17, a young man began work at Brainlink. According to Anton himself, the only opportunity for emotional relaxation for him at that time was music.
But looking for new and interesting tracks was for a guytoo tiresome, which also took a lot of time. And Anton Volodkin became the creator of Hype Machine - a program that automates the entire process of finding music. The technology found interesting tracks not only in the popular blogs of musicians and the labels themselves - it can be many users of the Network. The guy was looking for something more original. And got his way! The interest of users to the project grew, as they say, by leaps and bounds.
Today, the site is visited by more than a million people per month. The recent merger with SoundCloud has opened up new perspectives for the Hype Machine and for Anton himself.
Молодые миллионеры мира рано или поздно принимали help from investors or agreed to sell their own idea. An ordinary schoolchild from Moscow, the creator of the acclaimed project ChatRoulette, refused all these opportunities.
Андрей Терновский придумал и запустил свой сайт in just three days. His usual computer desk in his parents' apartment in Moscow became a place of work for him. By the end of 2009, 17-year-old Andrei showed his creation to the world, and a real hunt began behind the project and its creator. The guy was invited to Europe, they tried to organize meetings with him, and a real struggle was launched for his website. As a result, Andrei refused even to Yuri Milner. At that time, ChatRoulette was estimated at $ 50 million dollars. True, in his subsequent interviews, the guy said that he had time to regret the refusal.
Probably many would like their fate orthe fate of their children was the same. It is quite natural: well, who does not want for themselves or their loved ones well-being and prosperity? How can I get to the Forbes list? The young millionaires, in their own words, did not at all strive to break the fat sum: they started with the optimization of what worked poorly, or simply did what they loved. Some looked for ideas, others realized the thoughts of others. But, according to the words of Jack Ma, the creator and owner of AliBaba and the richest man in China, it's all about ambition. If you are not rich and you are already more than 35 years old - it means that you have lived a life in vain ...
