14th
of November as we all know is celebrated as children’s day in memory of Pandit
Jawaharlal Nehru, the first prime minister of independent India. Although the
United Nations’ Universal Children’s Day, is celebrated on November 20th
every year to promote international togetherness and awareness among children
worldwide.
Today,
on this day I will tell you about few teen millionaires whom you will admire
for achieving the success through the old fashioned way that is the hard work.
Most of them were not born into money or privilege and did not have deals lined
up around them. What they are today and what they become was just an idea
someday along with the determination in their head and heart to make it
reality.
1.
FRASER
DOHERTY: GRAMMY’S JAM
Fraser Doherty at the age of 14
used his grandmother’s recipes to make homemade jam which he then sold to his
neighbors in Scotland. By 16 he created the huge demand for the stuff by
tweaking the recipes of his own and calling it SuperJam. Business picked up so
well that he dropped out of school to work full time. In 2009, with the help of
his supermarket chain connection and the addition of Asda Wal-Mart as a
stocking client, Fraser hit $1.2 million in sales.
“I can’t be preoccupied with the
money,” he says. “I make jam because it’s what I love to do. Success is pretty
sweet too.”
John Koon is an American
entrepreneur. Opening the first ever auto parts businesses in New York City, he
began making millions of profit at the age of 16 with Extreme Performance
Motosports, a company that became one of the main supplier for MTV’s hit
reality show Pimp 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. Koon earned $40 million in the process and is reportedly on
the fast track on becoming a millionaire.
Having a goal to create a million
dollar company by the age of 21, Adam Horwitz began launching various starts-up
websites at 15. He created several that flopped before finally hitting on his
first successful venture with Mobile Monopoly, an app that teaches users 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, YepText, a text advertising
service for businesses.
Seventeen year old Nick D’Aloisio
set the internet wires abuzz when it was announced that a smartphone app he
created in his spare time had been bought by Yahoo at the purchase price of a
whooping $30 million. The Wimbledon school student taught himself how to code
at the age of 12- a skill that paid off when he finally created the news app
that grabbed Yahoo’s attention.
These were just four success
stories out of hundreds about kids who turned their mere ideas into substituent reality. All of us have that budding entrepreneur in us, especially at young
age because we as kids are filled with more positive thoughts and optimistic
ideas. All it takes is hard work and determination and perseverance. All we
need to remind ourselves daily is that success is not a destination or a
destined place; rather it’s a lifetime journey that will lead you to the path
of success with continuous efforts.
