The youngest millionaires in the world

The youngest millionaires of the world sold eggs and cooked jam, drew and squeezed out oil ... In this review, examples are given of the life of students and schoolchildren who were not afraid to take risks, and now they are at the top of the world.

Facebook

Like almost all young millionaires, a simple student from Harvard, who came from an average American family, had never thought about billions. Mark Zuckerberg just was fond of programming and periodically launched entertaining programs on the Internet. One of his creations was Winamp - a simple and convenient media player, analyzing the music preferences of the user.

One day Mark Zuckerberg, sitting in his dorm room at the university, launched a modest project - the Facebook social network. Today, his creation is the most popular "social network" in the world, and among other sites for various purposes it occupies 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.

Sell tickets online on Showclix

Once Joshua Dzyabiak created his own website for hosting hosting - Mediacatch. Unleashing the service, he managed to sell it for $ 1 million. At that time, the guy was only 18 years old. He got enough money for a new prestigious car and LCD-TV.

But the story of a millionaire is just beginning! Part of the proceeds Joshua invested in their new projects, among which was the service ShowClix. The project helps various organizations like concert halls distribute tickets. For every purchase on the ShowClix system, the site charges a few cents. Thanks to these minimum fees, Joshua Dzyabiak earns about $ 10 million every year.

Virtual albums from the final

How to become millionaires without any prerequisites, not by hearsay knows Katherine Cook, a 15-year-old schoolgirl from the United States. One day she decided to transfer the usual school albums to the world of virtual reality. Convincing his older brother to trust her idea, with his help, Catherine launched her own project - an interactive version of the album of graduates. It was in 2005, and at that time on the Internet there was no such idea.

By 2006, brother and sister were able to attract investors to their business, a little later on the project appeared flash games and online chats. By 2008, the service began to be interested in the largest American advertisers, including Disney himself. The number of social network users has not broken Facebook's records, but Catherine does not need it. Her project became the third most popular in the US, and then MyYearbook.com bought the social network Quepasa. Now brother and sister Cook are millionaires. Up to 25 years they managed to make a fortune, which is estimated by a seven-digit figure.

Superjam

14-year-old Fraser Doherty, an ordinary boy from the UK, was very attached to his grandmother, often helped her in the kitchen and most of all loved her author's jam. Once, Fraser decided to treat his neighbors and acquaintances with a favorite treat.

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

The extraordinary taste of delicacies, the simple story of a guy and his love for his grandmother and her recipes did their job. Today jams and jams of the brand Superjam is the largest supplier of such goods in the UK, firmly holding positions in the market.

MyDesktop

Brilliant ideas always lie in the palm of your hand or are born in the most unexpected places. All young millionaires can confirm this rule. Not an exception, and Michael Furdyk, who once decided to launch his site directly from the basement of parents in their home in Canada. 16-year-old Michael it occurred to publish tips about the work of computers, which he found in various chat rooms on the Web.

By 1999, his project MyDesktop brought more than $ 60 thousand a month. Later, Michael still sold the site of the corporation Internet.com.

Chicken farm in 3 years

Ryan Ross is the youngest millionaire in the world. He started his business in 3 years, selling eggs of domestic chicken, which the parents of the boy were bred. He offered neighbors to buy a dozen eggs at a price of $ 3, for a day the boy saved up to $ 60.

Later he began to take orders for a haircut and watering lawns, but since he could not hold a hose or lawn mower on his own, he paid for work to older children, giving them half of their proceeds. So he began to earn from 5 to 100 dollars per hour, doing absolutely nothing.

Accumulated money Ryan Ross decided - of course, not without the participation of parents - to invest in real estate, buying several buildings in Canada and Colombia. Later in the list of his acquisitions there were grounds for basketball and hockey. Today, the state of the boy is estimated at $ 9 million, while 8-year-old Ryan still does not have a cell phone - mom and dad are not allowed.

Fuel from plants

Daniel Gomez Inigues has developed a technology that allows to receive fuel from the squeeze of plants. Funds for the production of the guy was not available, so he enrolled, like many young millionaires, - engaged in the search for investors. The first client simultaneously became the first investor - for half of the funds from the order the boy realized the project of the press and produced the initial lot of the goods.

For the year of its existence, the fuel company, which the boy named Solben, attracted investments of about $ 1 million. Today the company is thriving, and the 20-year-old Daniel just had time to enter college.

Miss O and Miss O and Friends

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

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

Beautiful profiles on MySpace

Ashley Kvols, a 14-year-old girl from America, was fond of drawing and design. During the rise of the era of social networks, she noticed that her friends would be interested in decorating their personal profiles on the MySpace website. Ashley could help the girls in two accounts, so she created several options for designing the page and put her work on her own website.

Soon, Yahoo's service drew attention to the high level of popularity of the Ashley website. The total number of visits to her pages with wallpaper 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 site Whateverlife, 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 dollars. At the same time, Ashley's initial investment was $ 8, which she borrowed from her mother. That's how little girls become millionaires without a penny in their pocket!

Online selling points

Jamie Murray Wells once received a prescription, according to which he had to order and buy glasses. The young man was unpleasantly surprised at the high cost of the things necessary for him - $ 300! Then he had to buy glasses made with special technology. Wells purchased them at an affordable price, and the quality of the optical device so he liked that the guy decided to organize the sale of such glasses via the Internet.

As a result, Jamie abandons his studies and invests $ 2,000 in his project. His Glasses Direct site earns $ 2 million dollars in the first year after launch, and then starts actively cooperating with advertisers, attracting investments worth up to $ 34 million. Impressive, is not it?

The seller of mushrooms

Once a 15-year-old teenager from the United States, Jan Purkastha, decided to start importing a delicacy product - truffles. But the young man had to face some moments that hampered successful business. In Arkansas, where Ian lived, the import of delicacies was controlled by local departments, so it was necessary to carry out complex work to carry out the delivery in accordance with federal laws.

Yana's task was complicated by the short shelf life of the truffles - only 7 days. Then the 15-year-old teenager, keen on collecting mushrooms, decided to organize his own nursery for truffles - the first in the US. Today, the boy is rightly called a truffle tycoon. Its products are bought by the best restaurants in New York, including those marked by 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 about music, computer games and clubs. And Jan Purkajastha only sells mushrooms. At a price of $ 4 thousand per kilogram.

Business on your favorite songs

As practice shows, many young millionaires did not even plan to do business. Milan Tesovich started his business with entertainment. The teenager liked to collect texts of favorite songs. Milan collected them all on one resource, which he created with his own hands.

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

Microblogging on Tumbrl

The platform for microblogging Tumbrl is popular today even among major politicians, Barack Obama himself has his account on the project. The creator of the Tumbrl platform is David Karp, who at that time was only 19 years old. Before making a decision to create his own project, David replaced several training places, finished home schooling and several courses, acquired work experience.

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

The creator of the Red Fox

This story is from the series "about the great geeks", to which all ambitious programmers and IT specialists are equal. Blake Aaron Ross started programming sites as early as boyhood. His first brainchild he created, being a 10-year-old child.

And it was a full-fledged and worthy internet resource. Then a 15-year-old was invited to Netscape, where he became friends with a colleague of work - Dave Havitt. So, combining study and work, a 19-year-old guy with Havitt 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. At the same time, young talent succeeds in becoming the product director at Zuckerberg.

Hype Machine

As you can see, almost all the young millionaires mentioned above are residents of the USA or Canada. But on this corner of the Earth the light did not come together with a wedge. In our country, too, there are lucky ones. Who are they - the young millionaires of Russia?

Surprisingly, a successful fellow of Russian origin, who was on this list, created his own brilliant work thanks to ... laziness! At the age of 9, Anton Volodkin, along 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 relaxation for him at that time was music.

But to look for new and interesting tracks was for the guy too tedious employment which besides took away a lot of time. And Anton Volodkin became the creator of Hype Machine - a program that automated the whole process of searching for music. The technology has found interesting tracks not only in popular musicians' blogs and labels themselves - many Web users can do this. The guy was looking for something more original. And he achieved his goal! The interest of users to the project grew, as they say, by leaps and bounds.

Today the site is visited by more than one million people a month. A recent merger with SoundCloud has opened new prospects 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 schoolboy from Moscow, the creator of the sensational project ChatRoulette, refused all these opportunities.

Andrei Ternovsky came up with and launched his site in just three days. The place of work for him was his usual computer table in the Moscow apartment of his parents. By the end of 2009, 17-year-old Andrew showed the world his creation, and the project and its creator began a real hunt. The guy was invited to Europe, they tried to organize meetings with him, and a real fight was launched for his site. As a result, Andrew refused even Yuri Milner. At that time, ChatRoulette was estimated at $ 50 million dollars. However, in his subsequent interview, the guy said that he regretted the refusal.

How to catch luck by the tail

Probably, many would like their destiny or the fate of their children to evolve in this way. This is quite natural: well, who does not wish for himself or his loved ones well-being and prosperity? How can I get on the Forbes list? Young millionaires, in their own words, did not at all try to derail the fat sum: they began with the optimization of what worked badly, or simply engaged in their favorite business. Some were looking for ideas, others were realizing other people's thoughts. But, according to the words of 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 more than 35 years old - then you have lived life in vain ...