20 Self-Made Teenage Millionaires

what he winds do from a fourteen-year-old boy selling homemade jam to a university student that came up with a popular computer game you may have heard of called runescape we count 20 self-made teenage millionaires number 20 Fraser Doherty freezer Doherty began at the age of 14 using his grandmother's recipes to make homemade jam which he then sold to his neighbours in Scotland by 16 he had created a huge demand for the stuff by tweaking the recipes on his own and calling it super Jim business picked up so well that he dropped out of school to work full-time he was soon approached by a supermarket chain in the UK in 2007 who offered to stop his product and all 184 stores and in 2009 Fraser at one point two million dollars in sales number 19 Ashley Qualls in 2004 14 year old Ashley Qualls launched whatever life calm as a means to show off her design work after a few years studying HTML her site had virtually no traffic until she began offering free custom myspace layouts to fellow classmates by 2005 and with only word-of-mouth for advertising her site began to explode with visitors seeking cool designs to personalize this social network page that was when she joined Google's Adsense program which supplied ads to her site and paid her a share of the click revenue which since has made Ashley millions of dollars number 18 Cameron Johnson when Cameron Johnson's parents asked him to design invitations for an upcoming holiday party they were having he probably had no idea just how far it would take him impressed with the results of his work people around the neighbourhood began offering her money for other designing jobs by age 11 he had banked several thousand dollars in revenue with tears and tears his own custom line of greeting cards determined to keep the ball rolling on a good business sense he took the he made from the greeting cards and formed his first online business surfing prizes calm the website a paper and toolbar service paid off big-time and three to four hundred thousand dollars per month number 17 Juliet Bryn duck when she was only ten years old Juliet began during a group of made-up characters she called cool girls at age 16 she launched a social networking site for tweens called must-own and friends inspired by her earlier drawings she enlisted her mother and father to help put the site together with they combined graphic and business skills it became an instant hit with fellow tweens who began visiting the website by the hundreds of thousands the site now generates an estimated 10 million unique visitors per month and is worth an estimated 15 million dollars number 16 David and Catherine cook brother and sister duo David and Catherine cook became teen millionaires by creating my yearbook calm impressed by the idea their brother jiff invested $250,000 and startup money to the youngest siblings who then launched the site perching it as the myspace for high school they succeeded in getting an estimated nine hundred and fifty thousand members to join within the first year since then this site has grown into a business with a net worth of somewhere around 100 million dollars number 15 Sean Bell Nick Sean Bell Nick was intrigued by the idea of selling things online so much there at the age of 14 he designed his own website to serve that very purpose having just $600 for a startup budget he began selling small items like pokemon cards to get himself familiar with the selling process before long he had switched to selling office furniture on his new site busier calm a move that ended up earning him an estimated twenty four million dollars of 20 he now has over 75 employees who work for him and a setting his sights on the 50 million dollar mark number 14 Nick dollar CEO 17-year old McDonald or CEO sit the Internet wise abuzz when it was announced that his smartphone app he had created and a spare time had just been bought by Yahoo for the price of 30 million dollars the Wilmington school student taught himself how to code at the age of 12 a school that paid off when he finally created the news app that grabbed Yahoo's attention nick says he plans to invest the money he earned from the sale number 13 adam horwitz having a goal to create a million dollar company by the age of 21 adam horwitz began launching various startup websites at age 15 he created civil that flopped before hitting the big time on his first successful venture with mobile monopoly an app that teaches uses how to turn a buck with mobile market leads sales of the app earned him a six-figure profit which he used to fund his next idea yep text a text advertising service for businesses which since has made millions number 12 Adam Hildreth Adam Hildreth is known for setting up a company called dub it in 1999 this uk-based social networking website was an instant success and put Adam Hildreth firmly on the map and well on his way to success not to forget earning him millions of dollars in the process double limited a youth marketing agency we're not to become one of the most popular websites in the UK now at 28 years of age Adams net worth is estimated at 25 million dollars number 11 John McGinnis McGinnis started a web designing business when he was just 14 years old way back in the 1990's the teenage entrepreneur taught himself how to design and build websites and started selling it as a service on the internet for a few bucks his work was so good however that the word got out and soon enough McGinnis went from building websites for fifteen dollars to as much as thirty thousand by the time McGinnis was 16 business was good so good in fact he was already worth and million dollars number 10 Tyler Dickman Dickman showed extraordinary entrepreneurial skills at a very early age he successfully sold lemonade when he was as young as five making 22 dollars an hour when he was 10 he was making 74 dollars an hour which was exactly 74 dollars per hour more than the other kids his age for doing magic shows at birthday parties during this time he also started investing in stocks dukeman had it big when he was fifteen when he started a computer supply business called call tronics dot-com and by the age of 17 he had made a million dollars number nine Michael third ik this kid's story is like that of many young calm success stories he launched a web business it did well and he sold it for over a million dollars that then put him on The Oprah Show at 17 years old and as the internet exploded in popularity he started a technology magazine online with a group of friends that became quite popular after selling that company in 1999 he then realized that many young people didn't have the support of family friends at school so he co-founded taking IT global org as a charitable organization which not only made money but helped a lot of young people number eight Abigail flick Abigail Fleck is an American inventor from st. Paul Minnesota noted for her 1993 invention makin bacon a microwaveable bacon cooking plate the device which she created in age eight is an inch deep of dual compartment tray made of microwave safe plastic a B and a father then founded a company to manufacture the product every flick then embarked on a promotional tour of her product which included appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show and The Late Show with David Letterman number seven Mike McDonald Mike McDonald as a Canadian poker player and is the youngest person to win an event at the European Poker Tour at 18 years of age McDonald won the EPT German Open in 2008 winning 1.3 million dollars in September 2011 McDonald won the $20,000 buy-in eight max No Limit Hold'em tournament and the epic poker League burning over seven hundred thousand dollars and as of 2014 has total live tournament winnings exceed 10 million dollars number since Farrah gray this guy started selling body lotion at the age of just six at 13 years old he founded far out food which in a period of one year had received food orders for over 1.5 million dollars making him a millionaire at 14 farad gray is the youngest person to have a Wall Street office and is estimated to be worth at least 20 million dollars number five culture Chu often referred to as the British Bill Gates Churchill started his career as a web designer at the age of 12 his first company's butts new media and bits and PCs were launched while he was still at school at the age of 19 he was making more than a million dollars from his next company DMC internet and since then he has led several successful computer Internet companies a certain rich list has suggested that Churchill would be worth more than hundred million dollars by the year 2020 number or John the sky is the quintessential American entrepreneur opening the first-ever auto parts business in New York City he began making millions in profit at the age of 16 with extreme performance motorsports a company that became one of the main suppliers for MTV's hit reality show tenth my ride not wanting to limit himself to the auto circuit he decided to give fashion a try and soon launched a clothing company alongside rapper Young Jeezy and turn earned himself an astounding forty million dollars in the process number three Andrew gala Andrew Gower was a student at Cambridge University when he came up with the massively successful online computer game you may have heard of called runescape he started creating computer games at age seven coming up with a 3d game called parallax painter for the Atari ST as a teenager and in 2009 the Sunday Times listed Andrew and his brother Paul to be worth an estimated ninety nine million dollars number two James Murray James Murray Wells spotted a gap in the market so he set up glasses direct an online retailer selling spectacles while he was still at university the site which he funded using $1,000 of a student loan saw twenty-two thousand pairs of glasses in its first year alone and had an annual turnover of 1 million dollars he also set up hearing direct comm selling digital hearing aids online and he has an estimated net worth of ten million dollars number one John and Patrick Collison these brothers were 17 and 19 when they set up a software business that grew rapidly and sold for millions they are among the richest young adults in Ireland in 2007 the brothers founded shopper they also founded Silicon Valley company stride with the goal of making it easier to build a business on the Internet its value rocketed after it raised eighty million dollars from investors and these two island brothers are set to join the world's and make a wealthy after having their company valued at 1.75 billion dollars [Music]

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Published: Wed Aug 13 2014

Reddit Comments

[u/DafuqIsTheInternet]

99 million god damn. If only they stayed. Maybe runescape wouldn't have gone to shit

[u/Gyrocyde]

I gained so much respect for Ian. I'm sure he's well set in life money wise and he's still doing stuff with the osrs devs.

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Thats a lot of irl gps