When thinking about words such as business, economics, entrepreneur, and various other words to describe involuntary exchange among men, most people think of old, rich, snobby men who achieved success later in life. However, this wasn’t the case for Ben Pasternak. Ben Pasternak is an Australian entrepreneur who is currently one of the youngest and hard-working entrepreneurs only being 21 years old. Now the reasons he is one of the youngest and hard-working entrepreneurs is because of where his story started. Ben Pasternak started out at only age 14 when he created a game called Impossible Rush which had millions of downloads and had the Apple App Store by surprise. Now the reason why this is such an important fact about Ben’s life is that most top-rated games on the App Store or various other platforms are created by huge companies with a lot of money. Ben was only 14 when he created this and I am sure that various individuals knew he had the potential for big things in his life.
Another huge achievement in Ben’s life is the fact that he co-founded a company called Monkey at only age 17! Monkey is a video chat-based app to help users meet new people. The app had over 3,000,000 users and all users are very active. It is crazy that being this young without having boatloads of cash from a company or even help from various professionals that Ben and his friends created a company with over 3 million users. What is so unique about Ben is that he doesn’t let his age stop his creativity or his passion. He had a dream to make games, platforms for people to meet, and change the world and he ultimately did. The drive that ultimately pushes and motivates Ben is not only his success but to leave his mark on the world by making it a better place. I read various articles on Ben and in every single article, there were always comments on how Ben wanted to make his mark on the world and change it for the better. Some entrepreneurial traits that Ben demonstrates would be Motivation, Creativity, Persuasiveness, Vision, Versatility, Risk tolerance, Flexibility, and Decisiveness. Finally, the way Ben is innovating the world is simply by bringing people together. Using his Monkey company as an example, he is helping people who are lonely or have a hard time making friends come together and meet. He is not only worried about making money or achieving success but ultimately on helping others
In conclusion, I have learned a lot from Ben and one word sums it up: passion. Whenever I think of an idea or something that can change the world, I always ignore it and think “Nobody will like this”, but Ben ultimately ignored those thoughts and attacked the market aggressively by introducing “Monkey” and “Impossible Dash”. Ben ultimately is so inspiring to all young people and shows that age doesn’t determine your creativity or skill level because every person is different and was created for a reason.
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It’s great to read about an impactful young entrepreneur. It’s interesting to see our generation and younger being able to take advantage of the technology that’s available to us since a young age. It’s great that Ben was innovative and was able to develop and successfully run so many apps through the App Store.
Young entrepreneurs like this one never fail to inspire me. So often in our culture success is defined by age, but it doesn’t have to be this way! Having such a strong entrepreneurial passion is a gift from God, and it’s wonderful to see it used successfully at a young age.