Pete founded Mashable in 2005 when he was 19 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Mashable is a popular online blog. It started as a simple blog with Pete as the sole author, and quickly rose to fame. In 2009, TIME Magazine considered it one of the best business and tech blogs. Now, it is worth around $50 million and it’s still going.
Mashable began as a blog, but now has sections of the site for different topics, with blogs/articles about all sorts of things; tech, science, entertainment, and more. It was truly innovative for its time because Pete made a blog specifically for certain things he was interested in, and he did it really well. It’s not normal news or articles. It’s different.
Pete showed his entrepreneurial spirit when he was developing Mashable– he would work for hours into the morning on his computer in the early stages of developing. His parents didn’t even know what he was up to. Now, his work has millions of visitors a month.