Cameron Johnson
By the age of 12 he had made $1000 selling his sisters toys on the internet, he bought them for $100 from her and soon after that he contacted the company that makes them and he carried on selling them, that year he made $50,000 from them. From a very early age he was a passionate and profitable businessman, and he was determined to do his best to be successful. At the age of 15 he was the first young American appointed to a Board of Tokyo based company. Cameron Johnson is a born salesman, since a very young age he was learned how to sell, when he was younger he would sell vegetables from his wagon.
At the age of 13 he started a company called My Ez Mail, it was an email forwarding services used to help young people protect their identity online, he had very little programming knowledge so he would pay programmers to write software for him. He then later joined with two teen entrepreneurs to start Surfingprizes.com, this website sold advertisement, within a year the website was generating $15,000 a day. “ When I was 15 I would receive cheques from between $300,000 to $400,000 a month’’ says Cameron
Mark Zuckerberg
By the time he was at Harvard he was already known as a programming prodigy, it was at Harvard where Mark Zuckerberg discovered his true passion for social media. His first big website was a site that included the name and pictures of everyone who lived in the student Dorms, this site had two pictured of males or females and the viewer would choose whose hotter, and there was a ranking according to who’s hotter. The website was running over the weekend, the same weekend it went viral and they had to shut it down on Monday morning because it was overwhelmed the Harvard server, a lot of students complained because he used they pictures without they permission so he was forced to apologize.
Facebook was launched from Mark Zuckerbergs Harvard Dorm in 2004, his co-owner was Dustin Moskovitz, at first Facebook was for Harvard students only but it soon spread to other schools like Stanford, Columbia, New York University etc. Soon Zuckerberg moved to California with some friends and Moskovitz, they leased a small house which served as a small office, that summer they met Peter Thiel who invested in the company and they got they first offices the same year.
Mark Zuckerberg dropd out of Harvard due to the success of Facebook, by the year 2010 the company reached the 500-million user mark. It was not an easy journey for Zuckerberg, he was sued long his journey and faced many difficult obstacles but passion and determination kept him going regardless of the situation, there was a movie called “The Social Network” that is based on Mark Zuckerberg
Farrah Gray was born on September 9 1984, Farrah Grew up in the projects of east Chicago, he grew up in an environment of poverty and hardship, at the age of 6 he started selling home made body lotion and hand painted rocks as book marks, he went around the neighborhood selling his products door to door. At the age of 9 he was carrying a business card that read ''21 Century CEO'', he was determined to be succesfull regardless of his age and he was extremely intelligent for his age.
At the age of 8 he co-founded a company called Urban Neighborhood Enterprise Economic Club(U.N.E.E.C) on Chicago South side, this company was a forerunner of New Early Entrepreneur Wonders(NE2W) he opened offices on Wall-street, he was the youngest person to have an office in Wall-Street, he was only 12 years of age, this company helped young people to legally create additional income. Mr Gray was also involved in many business ventures including KIDZTEL prepaid phone cards, One Stop Mail Boxes and many more. Gray also owned Far-Out Foods, he was only 13, Far-Out Foods was an independent specialty food company that was sold in just two years for $1.5 million, he was one of the first young African American to become a self made millionaire.
Today he owns a number of successful companies including a publishing company, he has opened a door of opportunity for thousand of motivated young individuals, he has proved that anything is possible if you put your heart to it.
