Blake Ross is one fiery topic. From the age of fourteen, he was already making big moves. He joined the likes of Netscape as an apprentice then went onto Stanford. His idea first hit the market in November 2004 when Blake was only nineteen years old. He began his endeavor to help his mother overcome her frustration with Internet Explorer. She was upset with its poor performance and how she could not book mark her favorite sites and it was riddled with pop-up ads. Viruses often plagued Mrs. Blake’s computer as well. Ross then took to learning programming for himself so he could one day fix those problems. At the age of only 10 he made his first website. In 1998, Netscape released its code to open source and allowed anyone to tamper with it. Firefox was then born from the ashes. Less than a year after its initial launch Firefox had been downloaded more than 100 million times and was soon threatening the big fish like Internet Explorer. Because Firefox was open source, thousands of programmers worked together to bring it to life and bring innovation to the website. Although not taking over Internet Explorer, it is still used by a mass audience. StatCounter released data stating that in 2010 32% of internet users around the world used Firefox compared to Internet Explorer’s 49%. Blake Ross has a net worth of 150,000,000 dollars today and is a pristine example of the millennial entrepreneur.
One entrepreneur who made a name for himself in e-commerce and software is Hayden Bowles. At the young age of 12 years old, he began learning about business and traded stocks. In high school, all he did was sit in class on his phone and traded stocks, which his professors either allowed it or sent him to detention. By sophomore year of high school, he dropped out to pursue business. He started to pursue drop-shipping on Shopify and learned how to use Facebook and Instagram ads to leverage himself. He became so good that he generated roughly $20,000 per month just from Shopify drop-shipping alone. At the same time, Hayden worked hard to build his personal brand through his YouTube videos, Instagram page, and Snapchat following. He acquired business partners to help him manage his Shopify stores. At 17 years old, he embraced networking by meeting very prestigious people all over the country. He moved out of his parent’s house at this time in pursuit of his dream for financial independence and freedom. Hayden saw the opportunity to share his knowledge with the world by creating a buy-in mastermind course for drop-shipping where he provides exclusive strategies that he uses to build his own stores. I have personally joined this course when I built my own Shopify store and I can easily say it was worth the investment. Since then, Hayden has scaled his businesses and built new ones from the ground up. He is now projected to generate over $2 million in net income this year at the age of 18, and posts daily YouTube videos where he shares his knowledge and experiences.
