Yesterday I was reading an article by Mark Zuckerberg, about how he and his company Facebook has made some recent changes in their privacy settings feature. While reading that blog post, I couldn't help and wonder time and again about how young he is, and how much he has achieved in such a short span of time.
This inspired me compile a list of such genius and successful teenage entrepreneurs.
So read on to learn and share some amazing stories of teenagers who not only dreamt high but also managed to reach there:
When he was only a 9 year old kid, Cameron started making invitations for his parent's holiday parties, gradually his work started receiving a lot of appreciation and by the time he was 11 he earned thousands of dollars from his company Cheers & Tears. A year after that he offered his sister $100 for her 'Beanie Babies' collection and started selling them on eBay, and eventually on his Cheers & Tears website. By the time he was 15 his company was earning $15000 per day. He was not only a millionaire before graduating high school, he became the youngest American to be appointed as to the board of a Tokyo Based Company and also wrote his first book "15-year-old-CEO".
Ashley started her business in 2004, when she was only 14 years of age. She bought a $8 dollar domain name with the intention of creating an easy way for sharing free layouts for My Space and HTML tutorials with her friends; she called her website whateverlife.com. Her site started gaining huge popularity among teenagers, and eventually she started advertising on her site through Google AdSense; her earnings reached $70K a month. By the time she was 17, she was a millionaire and a high school dropout; she rejected $1.5 million buyout offer and appointed her first employee - her mother.
Although he did not use internet for his business, but by the time he was 14 Gray became a self-made millionaire, his accomplishments are truly commendable. When he was merely 6 years old, Gray started selling home made body lotions and hand painted rocks as book-ends; a year after that his business card read "21st Century CEO". By the time he was 12 yr old, he started a venture capital firm and raised $1 million from investors that helped young teenagers like him to start their own business.
By 16, he was operating several other business ventures like, pre-paid phone cards called KIDZTEL, The Teenscope "Youth AM/FM" which was an interactive teen talk show, One Stop Mail Boxes & More franchise and he also became the executive producer of a comedy show in Las Vegas Strip and owner of a food company. In 2005 his international bestseller called "Reallionaire" was published, he also owns a non-profit organisation called "Farrah Gray Foundation". Dr. Gray is also the youngest member of the Boards of Advisors for Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.
Unlike other millionaire teenagers, Fraser took the traditional route and started making jams at the young age of 12 in Scotland. By the time he was 16, he left school and committed himself completely to his sweet business venture called "SuperJam". In 2004, when Fraser was only 15, he received "Enterprising Young Brit Award"; currently SuperJam has 10 percent market share in UK's jam business and is also included in a museum exhibit as an example of "Iconic Scottish Food Brand".
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