Cameron Johnson started his career path at 9 years old when he made invitations for his parent’s holiday party. Only two years later he had made thousands of dollars selling cards from his business Cheers and Tears. When he was 12 he paid his younger sister 100$ for her 30 beanie babies and sold them on eBay for 10 times the amount he paid. After seeing that this investment worked, he started buying from the manufacture and earned over 50,000$ in profit in less than a year! All from reselling Beanie Babies! Using that money, he started an internet business that brought in 3,000$ a month in advertising. By the time he was only 15 years old, he had started and successfully ran 15 startups with total revenues of between 300,000 to 400,000 dollars a month! Not only that but he also became the youngest foreign kid to ever be appointed to a board of a company in Tokyo! In that very same year, he wrote a book called,” 15-year-old CEO” that became a bestseller in Japan! By 19 his assets were worth more than a million dollars!
Cameron is truly an inspiration because of his keen ability to see opportunities and seize them, something every entrepreneur must do. Unlike most, though, he had that ability at only 9 years old and was able to steadily grow that ability and talent to help him succeed. Several of his business stemmed from similar ideas that he just made better and improved.
I think a lot of people underestimate how easy it is to make money and Johnson shows us this. A small spark into the business market can lead onto other big things later like he did.
There is always someone out there who wants a product or service that you have at your disposal. At the age of 9 he was able to sell these cards. So many kids make cards for their parents, but he took it to the next step realizing that other people would want these cards too. He took the leap of faith that not many others are willing to take because he was not afraid of failure as most others are.