Category: Teenage Millionaires

Some engaging stories of teenage millionaires, how exactly they achieved their success…

Daniel Kan - a picture from his LinkedIn profile

Daniel Kan Was Rejected By 30 Employers. Now He’s A Co-Founder of a $1 Billion Startup

The world of finance completely shut its doors to Daniel Kan. During his senior year in college, Dan wanted nothing more than to become a financier. They all did some decent money, right? Everybody goes to finance…  But of the 35 jobs he applied for, mainly in the lucrative finance world, he got 33 rejections. The two offers that he was left with were both not related to finance at all. One of the opportunities he received was for teaching English in Korea and the other – working for a startup. He opted for the opportunity to work with a...

Cameron Johnson

Cameron Johnson – The 9 Year Old Entrepreneur Who Became A Teenage Millionaire

A Brief History Of The Young Entrepreneur He was just 9, his mates were playing hide and seek, they were soldiers, cowboys, but Cameron Johnson had a little different interests. At this age, the young boy from Virginia started his first business venture. Everything began by way of a joke, the young man started making greeting cards for his family’s celebrations. Many of the recipients liked the beautiful cards, and soon the little boy started receiving orders from friends and colleagues of his family members. And that was how it all began… After a couple of years, Cameron started to...

Ryan Blair

Ryan Blair – How A Gangster Became A Millionaire

This is just another story about how you can get anything you desire if you are fully dedicated to it. This is the story of a bad kid, who becomes a multimillionaire, founding his own company. This is a story about a guy who hasn’t even finished high school, and at the same time, he writes a book that reaches a top place on the best sellers list of the New York Times. Ryan Blair Ryan Blair was born on the 14th of July, 1977, in Southern California. He had a tough childhood, his father was far from the best,...

Peten Cashmore

10 Young Entrepreneurs Who Became Online Millionaires By Starting A Site As Online Business

Pete Cashmore mashable.com Pete Cashmore was born in Banchory, a small town in Scotland, on the 18th of September 1985. When he was in high school he experienced some health issues, because of which he finished high school two years late. He couldn’t go out with friends and he had a lot of time all by himself. He was a teenager experiencing a big need for social contact. This is how social media sites became an important part of his everyday life and he was amazed by the fact that they were changing the way people communicate. He spent a...

The story of Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg’s Story – Here Is How He Became A Billionaire

Mark Zuckerberg is actually one of the richest and most successful people in the world. And he managed to achieve this at a really early age. When he was just 23, he was a billionaire already. But how did he do this? How did he make billions just a few years after he finished high school? Well, things started a little bit earlier, when he was 10. The most important thing in his life seems to be his interest in computers, and this is when it was conceived. A major role in this played his father, who allowed his son...

This is the cool story behind the game FORCED.

The Young Entrepreneurs Who Lived Illegally In A Classroom To Found “Forced”

The game Forced is a popular RPG game with some tactical elements for up to 4 players. There you are a slave, who is forced to fight for his freedom or die. The game is available on Steam Store and has been a very popular app there. This makes it also a very successful business, and this business has a really cool story. Forced History The game was developed by a group of enthusiasts, passionate about gaming and computers. They found a spare classroom at the university they studied at and decided to use it for their first office. They...

One Million Dollars

How To Become A Millionaire? What Actually Is A Millionaire – Definition

How to become a millionaire? I believe almost everybody wants to be a millionaire, I guess you would agree. But what exactly a millionaire is? Actually, this is not a very simple question… If you take a $1 000 000 loan are you a millionaire? You have a million, in this case, you have that amount available for spending, but you owe it to the lender, too. So probably no, you’re not a millionaire in this case. A similar situation is if, let’s say Sarah has a house worth a million but she lives there and doesn’t plan to sell...

The Summly App

How Teenager Nick D’Aloisio Made 30 Million At 17 – The Summly App’s Story

This is one of the latest millionaire stories, in which a smart techy teenager hits the jackpot by selling his work to a big Internet company. This is the story of Nick D’Aloisio, the British teen who developed the news syndication app for iPhone – Summly. A little about the teenage millionaire When he was just 15, the young entrepreneur had an idea – to simplify the way how information is spread across the web. He wanted to build an application, which could show you news or simply articles from many different sources in a convenient way. So, he sat...

Who is Nat Turner? At Just 24, This Teenage Entrepreneur Sold His ‘Invite Media’ To Google For $70 Million

This is another motivating story about a guy who started a business at a very young age. The more I read such stories, the more I think that the ways of getting rich are endless. The most difficult part of the process is probably getting started. But there are plenty of ways for this, too… This dude started by breeding reptiles in his bedroom 🙂 and eventually switched to developing websites. I don’t exactly know what the common thing between these activities is, but one thing is for sure – a good entrepreneur can make a profit from anything.  See...