The list below contains just 10 of the youngest Internet Entrepreneurs to create millions out of a single idea. Enjoy:
10) Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith
Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith Tagged Inc. co-founded
Age: 30 years old
Project: Tagged
Wealth: $45 million
Project: Tagged
Wealth: $45 million
Tagged
Inc. was co-founded by Harvard graduates and entrepreneurs Greg Tseng
and Johann Schleier-Smith. Tagged.com was launched in October 2004 by
Tagged Inc. and is privately owned.Tagged. com is a social networking
site founded in 2004. Tagged is the subject of numerous customer
complaints for sending deceptive bulk mail and is regarded as a
phishing and spamming site and an "E-mail scam" by consumer anti-fraud
advocates. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United
States
9 Jake Nickell
Threadless Co-founders Jake Nickell
Age: 30 years old
Project: Threadless
Wealth: $50 million
Project: Threadless
Wealth: $50 million
Threadless
is a community-centered online apparel store run by skinnyCorp of
Chicago, Illinois, since 2000. Co-founders Jake Nickell and Jacob
DeHart started the company with $1,000 in seed money after entering an
Internet t-shirt design contest.
Members of the
Threadless community submit t-shirt designs online; the designs are
then put to a public vote. A small percentage of submitted designs are
selected for printing and sold through an online store. Creators of
the winning designs receive a prize of cash and store credit.
8 Alexander Levin
ImageShack Co.founder Alexander Levin
Age: 25 years old
Project: ImageShack
Wealth: $56 million
Project: ImageShack
Wealth: $56 million
ImageShack
is an image hosting website on the Internet. ImageShack has a
subscription service, but the majority of their revenue is produced
from advertising related to their free image hosting. The imageshack.us
Alexa ranking as of September 25, 2007 is one of the top 40's.
According to Nielsen//NetRatings , ImageShack was the fourth fastest
growing web brand in July, 2006.
7 John Vechey
PopCap Games Co-founder John Vechey
Age: 30 years old
Project: PopCap Games
Wealth: $60 million
Project: PopCap Games
Wealth: $60 million
PopCap
Games is a leading American casual game developer and publisher,
based in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was founded in 2000 by
John Vechey, Brian Fiete and Jason Kapalka, and currently employs
more than 180 people. Most of Popcap's games can be played free in a
limited form, with the full version available for a fee.
PopCap's
flagship title Bejeweled has sold more than 25 million units across
all major platforms. PopCap games are available for Web, PC and Mac,
Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, cell-phones, PDAs, iPod Classic,
iPhone/Touch and other mobile devices.
6) Angelo Sotira
Age: 28 years old
Project: DeviantART
Wealth: $75 million
DeviantArt
(official typeset as deviantART; commonly abbreviated as dA) is an
American online community with worldwide appeal showcasing various
forms of user-made artwork. It was first launched on August 7, 2000 by
Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, Angelo Sotira and others.
DeviantArt, Inc. is headquartered in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles,
California, United States. As of May 2009[update] the site consists of
over 10 million members, over 81 million submissions, and receives
around 105,000 submissions per day. The domain deviantart.com attracted at least 36 million visitors annually by 2008 according to a Compete.com study.
DeviantArt
aims to provide a place for any artist to exhibit and discuss works.
Works are organized in a comprehensive category structure, including
photography, digital art, traditional art, literature, Flash,
filmmaking, skins for applications and others, along with extensive
downloadable resources such as tutorials and stock photography.
"Fella," a small robotic cat character, is the official DeviantArt
mascot.
5) Andrew Michael
Fast Hosts founder Andrew Michael
Age: 31 years old
Project: Fast Hosts
Wealth: $110 million
Project: Fast Hosts
Wealth: $110 million
4) Blake Ross and David Hyatt
Mozilla firefox project by Dave Hyatt and Blake Ross.Age: 24 years old
Project: Mozilla
Wealth: $120 million
Project: Mozilla
Wealth: $120 million
Mozilla
Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the
Mozilla Application Suite and managed by Mozilla Corporation. Firefox
has 22.98% of the recorded usage share of web browsers as of August
2009[update] , making it the second most popular browser in terms of
current use worldwide after Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which has
66.97%.
To display web pages, Firefox uses the Gecko
layout engine, which implements most current web standards in
addition to several features which are intended to anticipate likely
additions to the standards.
Latest Firefox features
include tabbed browsing, spell checking, incremental find, live
bookmarking, a download manager, private browsing, location-aware
browsing (aka "geolocation") based exclusively on a Google service and
an integrated search system that uses Google by default in most
localizations. Functions can be added through add-ons, created by
third-party developers, of which there is a wide selection, a feature
that has attracted many of Firefox's users.
Firefox
runs on various versions of Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and
many other Unix-like operating systems. Its current stable release is
version 3.5.3, released on September 9, 2009[update] . Firefox's
source code is free software, released under a tri-license GNU GPL/GNU
LGPL/MPL
3) Chad Hurley
Chad Hurley co-founder and Chief Executive Officer youtube
Age: 33 years old
Project: YouTube
Wealth: $300 million
Project: YouTube
Wealth: $300 million
Chad
Meredith Hurley (born 1976) is the co-founder and Chief Executive
Officer of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing
website YouTube. In June 2006, he was voted 28th on Business 2.0's "50
People Who Matter Now" list. In October 2006 he sold YouTube for
$1.65 billion to Google.
Hurley worked in eBay's
PayPal division—one of his tasks involved designing the original
PayPal logo before starting YouTube with fellow PayPal colleagues
Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
Hurley is a user interface expert and was primarily responsible for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube
2) Andrew Gower
Andrew Christopher Gower is a British games developer and co-founder of Jagex Ltd
Age: 29 years old
Project: Runescape
Wealth: $650 million
Project: Runescape
Wealth: $650 million
Andrew
Christopher Gower (born 2 December 1978) is a British games developer
and co-founder of Jagex Ltd, the company he founded with Paul Gower
and Constant Tedder. He is noted for writing MMORPG RuneScape, with
the assistance of his brother, Paul Gower and also a lead developer.
Jagex
Games Studio (or Jagex Ltd./Jagex Software/JAGeX) is a producer of
online computer games based in Cambridge, UK. It is best known for the
three versions of its RuneScape MMO, as well as for having produced
the FunOrb games site and developing the 'to be released' MechScape
MMO. Jagex has over 350 employees, with all content development,
management, and customer support provided 'in house'.
The
company produces games exclusively written using the Java language,
its name standing for "JAva Gaming EXperts". It has received a number
of awards for its achievements and is one of the highest profile
developers in the UK.
1) Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg Facebook Founder
Age: 25 years old
Project: Facebook
Wealth: $700 million
Project: Facebook
Wealth: $700 million
Mark
Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer
programmer and entrepreneur. As a Harvard student, he created the online
social website Facebook with fellow computer science major students
and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Facebook is a
social networking site popular worldwide. Zuckerberg serves as
Facebook's CEO. He has been the subject of controversy for the origins
of his business and his wealth.
Time Magazine
added Zuckerberg as one of The World's Most Influential People of
2008. He fell under the Scientists & Thinkers category for his web
phenomenon, Facebook, and ranked 52 out of 101 people
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