Author Archive for John Proctor

Jon Wheatley

Jon Wheatley is the creator of DailyBooth, a blogging site that allows users to share pictures, videos, and posts about their daily lives. He was able to raise around $8 million to create the highly successful site. Due to the success of the website, his net worth went up to $1 million and Wheatley is now able to focus on more ventures and projects

Cites:

https://www.lifehack.org/588440/16-young-and-successful-entrepreneurs-who-prove-that-age-is-nothing-but-a-number

https://www.bing.com/search?q=jon-paul%20wheatley%20bio&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&pq=jon-paul%20wheatley%20bio&sc=2-21&sk=&cvid=967375C5C0A246A98691EDF59468FA1D

Danny Duncan

Danny Duncan is a famous YouTube star whose videos generate up to 3 million views. He performs stunts and comedy routines that interest your average day YouTube consumer. Due to his status as a internet celebrity, he has been able to generate a great amount of revenue from his websites and retail stores.

Duncan first worked at a Walgreens right out of high school before quitting to focus on making videos about skateboards and injuries. He was then hired to teach actor Jason Lee who sensed a great ability in Duncan to act and entertain. He told Duncan to focus on his YouTube channel as it would help with getting acting gigs and from there he took off. His most famous video is “Falling with 30,000 pennies” had close to 6 million views

Cites:

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/danny-duncan-41751.php

Catherine Cook

Catherine Cook is the Founder of MyYearBook.com which focused on putting high school year books online instead of having hard copies. She founded the company with her brother Dave Cook when she was 15, and with the help of her eldest brother Geoff Cook as the main investor, they were able to launch.

Catherine’s reasoning for creating the website was that she had just moved to Skillman NJ and started school with no friends. She looked through the year books to see if there was anyone that she knew and then had the thought why not put all this information online for easy access to all. After asking the help of her brother Geoff and Dave, she was able to put the website together and it was an instant success

Cites:

https://www.lifehack.org/588440/16-young-and-successful-entrepreneurs-who-prove-that-age-is-nothing-but-a-number

https://www.inc.com/magazine/201205/liz-welch/catherine-cook-and-geoff-cook-myyearbook.html

Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore is the founder Mashable, a media blog that provides news on celebrities, trends, and general gossip. Cashmore founded Mashable when he was just 20 years old back in 2005. In the beginning it was just a blog that became incredibly popular, fast forward to today and it is now one of the most popular news cites that people get their daily gossip and more from.

Due to the success of the website, Cashmore as accumulated a net worth of $95 million. Because of the success of the cite, he was able to sell the company to a gentleman by the name of Ziff Davis for a total of $50 million dollars. So in short, he’s a pretty successful guy

Fraser Doherty

Fraser Doherty is the creator of “Super Jam”. Super Jam is a Jam company that sells 100% all natural fruit flavored jams. Doherty learned to create these delicious treats from his grandmother, he then started to sell his creations at local stores and supermarkets. fast forward 15 years later and he now owns a company worth 2 millions dollars and growing.

Fraser’s identity is all about making a product for people who don’t just want the same, mass produced, chemical filled jams that we all buy today. He reaches a community who craves the simple taste of old time jams that bring them back to a more vintage era.

Doherty also sets the very definition of a young entrepreneur. He started his capitalistic adventures when he was just 14 years old. Taking the knowledge that his grandmother gave him, he began selling on a small scale but through promotion and marketing, was able to become international business. He is able to give all those young people who believe that their items are just too small hope; the hope that one day, through enough work, even their idea can take off

 

cites:

https://www.lifehack.org/588440/16-young-and-successful-entrepreneurs-who-prove-that-age-is-nothing-but-a-number

https://superjam.co.uk/pages/about-us

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PewDiePie

PewDiePie is known as the most popular youtuber. He has the most YouTube subscribers in the history of the platform. He mostly post videos of him playing video games and providing commentary to other videos that are popular on the internet. He uses this platform and publicity to sell merchandise and to get funding from advertisers. He has subscriber base of 101 million people and that makes him around 12 million USD a year. So basically he got bank.