Teen Success Stories
Anand Lal Shimpi brings new meaning to words like
"passion" and "tireless". Not to mention "teenage." The 17-year-old
high school senior who is the CEO and creator of an Internet company (www.anandtech.com)
that reviews hardware, juggles school and 60-hour workweeks, a steady
girlfriend, time with friends and, as their only child, a close
relationship with his parents.
Internet entrepreneur Carl Churchill is expected to have made more money
than Wayne Rooney, Keira Knightley and Jamie Bell by 2020. In fact, the
company he founded is currently making a turnover of one million pounds.
And he's only just turned 19...
When
Farrah Gray was 8, he used his lunchbox as a briefcase and printed up his
own business cards, boldly declaring himself a "twenty-first century"
CEO.
When
Michael Furdyk and his partners sold their Web site for more than $1
million last spring, Furdyk got a pile of money, gushing publicity--and
work-study credits toward his high school degree. Furdyk, now 17, still
doesn't have his diploma. But he got enough venture capital for his new
startup to lease a spacious office suite and employ 20
staffers--including his father, who just quit his job as an executive at
NCR Corp.
Brett
Klasko is an editor, publisher and president of his own financial dot-com
company.In a few short years, he built his Internet business, Investors
Alley Corp. (www.investorsalley.com) into an award-winning Web site that
receives a quarter-million page views a month, has more than 10,000
registered users and publishes the work of a nationwide network of about
30 free-lance financial correspondents.
His
company has survived situations in which many have faltered: the first
three years in business, vast marketplace changes, the dot-com bust -
even the CEO's 15th birthday.
The
high school sophomore from California's San Fernando Valley may not have
much Silicon Valley cred, but she does have some unique insight into the
lives of the 68 million members of GenerationI, and she's drawing from it
as the founder and president of Goosehead, a company that produces and
streams Web shows on a site for teens who aren't "little kids."
Tyler
Dikman bought his first platinum Rolex two years ago. He paid $17,000
cash last year for his 1997 Infiniti J30. He has discussed the future of
wireless networking with Bill Gates and had his picture taken with
Michael Dell.
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