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TOP OF THE MORNING – Seán William McLoughlin

Seán William McLoughlin, also known as famous Youtuber Jacksepticeye, is a popular Irish content creator known for his video game Let’s Play but also his coffee brand “Top of the Morning.” Seán McLoughlin has been a very influential man who started his Youtube journey back in February 2007, and this will be covering his life and how he has made such a successful brand.

Seán McLoughlin was born in early 1990 in County Offaly, Ireland, where he was the youngest of 5 siblings. Seán McLoughlin graduated high school in the early 2000’s and decided to make an indie heavy metal band around the same time named “Raised to the Ground” and to pursue college at Limerick, Ireland, for music technology. In the 2010’s he had decided to later drop out of college 2 years in and started making videos on Youtube around 2012. He explained in the past that his inspiration at the time for starting Youtube was because he admired two Youtubers named PewDiePie and Markiplier, who later down the line they all eventually met many years later and became best friends. Jacksepticeye didn’t see too much popularity till he had entered a competition and was one of many who won and received a shout-out from PewDiePie, where he jumped from 2000 to 15,000 subscribers in one day, and not too long after Markiplier had noticed him and stated he made entertaining videos, and that was the start of his first collaboration with him, which only built his career even more. Seán McLoughlin decided to go back to college and complete it in 2014 and had over 1 million subscribers.

Seán McLoughlin announced his first company in October 2018 named Cloak, which was a clothing brand with Markiplier, where he was CEO, and was extremely successful but had later in 2020 stepped down to pursue a different business idea. Seán McLoughlin’s second company is Top of the Morning Coffee, which had a launch date of June 1st, 2020, but was pushed back due to the uprising pandemic. It eventually launched on June 15th, 2020. Top of the Morning has been extremely successful, selling out all the time and has been reviewed as quite delicious, and Seán McLoughlin himself has been seen drinking it all the time. They come out with new flavors and are quite healthy, being ethically sourced and fully organic, and a percentage of every sale goes to the Crisis Text Line. This is Seán William McLoughlin’s successful story, and it seems he still has many years of success on his hands.

JOYRIDE – Ryan Trahan

Ryan Trahan was born 1998 in Sugar Land, Texas and attend Rice High School in the town of Altair being a cross country runner who eventually attended Texas A&M University while also doing YouTube starting 2012. While at A&M University he won a competition placing third in the Aggieland Open competition. Ryan Trahan later that year in 2017 decided to drop out of college and pursue content creation fulltime since he had grown a following of 30,000 Subscribers. Ryan Trahan wasn’t truly at his peak till he came up with the great idea to do a penny challenge which was 3 months long where he would start in California and with 1 penny travel to Mrbeast in north Carolina and deliver him the penny using a system where he would trade items such as a penny for a pencil. While doing this he would try to raise $100,000 for “Feeding America” a nonprofit charity that focuses on helping those in poverty gain the food they would need in the end though he ended up raising 1.38 million.

Ryan Trahan started his first business with a friend named Caden Wiese selling water bottles in 2016 named Neptune’s bottle that in it’s first year had made more than $50,000. Ryan Trahan had started a clothing line with the name Howdy Howdy which he hasn’t given exact numbers on how well it has sold but it has sold out multiple times. Ryan Trahan last business was a candy company named Joyride which he joined as Co-Owner / CEO and by how he describes it in his videos he loves it the most out of all his businesses. Joyride has been by far Ryan Trahan most successful company even being found in places like Walmart and Target which for a Youtube started company is quite impressive. This is a short history on Ryan Trahan a young Entrepreneur who seems to have a bright future on his hands.

Gabe Diaz – Mikey Munchies Vending

Michael Wren is an entrepreneur who started his business at the young age of eight. This boy had a love for business at a young age, starting his own vending machine system that he named Mikey’s Munchies Vending, which was multiple vending machines with his branding, but this was only the start.

When Michael Wren was older, he developed an urge and determination to help his community, so he started volunteering to teach people about the importance of financial literacy. Wren chose to help in other ways than just volunteering, so he started an annual drive to donate new toys to children in poverty in the hopes of bringing some light into their lives and additionally wrote two children’s books about business to kickstart other young entrepreneurs. Wren is a member of two national kids’ boards where he gave away $10,000 worth of clothes to youth in need.

Michael Wren was a young entrepreneur who started his business with vending machines and used his money to give back to the community as much as possible.