Ben Pasternak, an Australian native, first became famous for his development of a brain teaser app, Impossible Rush. He developed this app when he was bored in his high school science class, because what else is there to do in a boring class? Ben believes that apps should be created by the intended target consumer. I think this is a brilliant idea, and most of the time ideas come from problems that the inventor is having themselves. Therefore, a brain teaser app with the target audience of kids should be created by kids. Most apps are created by adults for kids, but who better to know what children really want in a game, then children themselves. Sadly, Pasternak sold the app for only $200. Rush Impossible ended up over taking tinder and raking in over 130K on the first day of his release. Ben then created an app called Monkey, a randomized video chat for children, with very strict codes of conduct. It was funded by over 2 million dollars in investments. The app aimed to decrease loneliness among teens around the world by randomly connecting users from all over. He also created an app called Flogg, very similar to eBay, a bidding app build for teenagers. Ben also has some different beliefs that could make him look very smart in the future. He has never learned to drive and thinks that cars are big and ugly, and will look like locomotives do to us today in 50 years. If he could tap into the new modes of transportation, who knows where this young entrepreneur could take us.

Matthew Mullenweg is a 34 year old from Houston, Texas and he founded the web software that we are currently using. That is right! Mullenweg is the founder of WordPress. WordPress is a website building software that focuses on accessibility and ease for its users. Matt realized that it was extremely challenging and expensive to build a website. Before companies like WordPress you had to go out and hire someone to build it for you, or learn how to code yourself. Matt believed that everyone should be able to create a website, whether they knew how to code or not. The philosophy behind the web platform is that anyone should be able to get a WordPress site up and functioning in less than 5 minutes. It’s customers do not care about the technology behind the site, most of them are just there to share their information. The largest takeaway that Matt has given with WordPress is the concept of giving customers decisions and not options. This may confuse some, but the idea is to make everything easier for everyday people to use. When you give every day people options, that they are not educated on, they get confused and do not know what to do. When you give people a decision there is no confusion and people have the ability to work. WordPress is an extremely easy to use platform with tons of different widgets to use for a million different functions (which you have the option to choose from). Take myself for example, last year I created a blogging site about the dying game of golf. The website had a blog section, a browsing section of all the courses I have played, and a section where readers could learn about me. I made all of this with only a couple of hours of work and no coding experience. I still cannot code by the way. Matt is also a college dropout, but do not get any ideas. He is a pretty unique character, considering the fact that he helped found WordPress at 19. WordPress makes a majority of its money from subscriptions, but also a small cut from advertising.