1. Blake (aka mr4to8) is a young entrepreneur that is really good at building a community. He shows everything he does so that others can learn from his success and mistakes. He has a great understanding of the stock and crypto markets. As well as the real estate market. Specifically how to run AirBNBs.
2. His drive is to be financially free and to give back to his family and others that helped him build. As well as use his businesses for social good. Such as using his AirBNBs to give make-a-wish kids a grand vacation.
3. Uses the already established AirBNB industry to grow a huge portfolio of them. By either purchasing the property or sub-leasing it. His other business, WiseGuy Investing, an investment education community. Uses Discord to connect with the younger generation to educate them on how to trade and invest. He brings in other professionals as well to post in their “journals” for the community to learn from.
4. Obsession with growth, both in business and personal life. He is constantly giving, learning, and teaching.
5. He used Tiktok to promote his brand and ended up going viral. During COVID he used the opportunity of everyone being on their phones to start creating educational tiktoks. After doing this he quickly went viral, gaining over 1M followers. Using Discord for educational purposes was also a newer idea when he first started it. Typically it is known for gaming. But he found it also worked well for his purposes.
6. His desire to use his business for social good inspires me to do the same with my business. Having a mission behind the business gives a great motivation to grow it rapidly. He also gives glory to God for all his success. Which is a great reminder for me to do the same.
7. The principles of giving and growing a community around your brand.

Recently this year when Florida was hit with a recession young entrepreneur Willow Tufano took advantage of the period when others were fearful to buy and purchased a house that would’ve sold before for $100,000 for $12,000. Then he renovated it and rented out the house for $700 a month less than a year later.

Being an entrepreneur is all about taking risks and seeing opportunities that others missed or don’t take advantage of. This young kid was able to see that there was a chance to make some money by buying at a low cost and then selling at a higher price just as you would do with stocks — but with real estate instead.

It is a very simple concept, but one that is very entrepreneurial and one that can be very lucrative if done correctly!

Akshay Ruparelia is a 19-year-old kid from Harrow, North East London who runs an online real estate agency worth millions. Doorsteps was recently valued at around twelve million pounds are just one year of business. Within just a year Ruparelia has raised over $530,000 along with over 500 investors owning a total just over 3% of his company.

He sold his first house while in still in school. Akshay, without a car, would use his girlfriends brother at the time to drive him around to these homes to take photos for his website. Each client looking to sell a home would pay Akshay 99 pounds to take photos of their home and post it on his website no matter what house it was. This price was market breaking considering other real estate agencies would charge 2-3% commission for each sale which equates to around ten thousand pounds.

As of now, Doorsteps has sold more than 1,500 homes all worth around 120 million pounds as a whole, saving customers over a million pounds in just one year. The average sale time is 20 days when dealing with Doorsteps; while the nation’s average is 57 days. Akshay currently employs 15-20 local agents to take pictures and show prospective buyers around. Doorsteps offers a dedicated agent, 24/7 operation, a live online portal, and the opportunity to reach millions of buyers for just 99 pounds. As of 2017, Doorsteps was claimed to be the 18th best real estate agency in the United Kingdom; Akshay claims that in the near future his company will be number one. At this rate, his goal seems as if it is very close to becoming a reality.