D’Aloisio is one of the youngest self-made millionaires ever. He achieved immense success when he sold his viral Summly mobile news summarization app to Yahoo. His app sold for thirty million when he was just seventeen years old. D’Aloisio was born in Australia and later moved to London which is where he wrote the app in his parents’ bedroom at the age of fifteen. Although he started with such a big project at such a young age, he stayed focus. No matter how much success he gains he continues to focus on his work. This has helped him be recognized as the world’s youngest venture capital-backed entrepreneur. He has used the selling of his company as an opportunity to grow even more and create connections to continue to grow his success. This has paid off in many ways, he is now a full-time member of yahoo’s engineering team. Additionally, he launched the new yahoo digest app while still in his last year of high school. Yahoo News Digest, his first app, shows you the most important new two times a day on your mobile device. It summarizes all the news that you need to know to stay in the know of what is happening. What makes this app so different than other news apps is it breaks the news down into easy-to-read news with visuals. This makes the app more accessible to people who may get overwhelmed by information overload.
Rebecca Svendsen
This guy is such a great entrepreneur! It’s quite a feat to become a millionaire at such a young age and even better to be a self-made one! I thought it was awesome how he dedicated so much time to working on this project of his and even better how he never gave up on it! It’s easy for so many ideas to never be fully turned into reality, but this idea did not have that unfortunate fate due to the strong work ethic and determination of the young entrepreneur! Really inspiring!
This was super interesting to read, it’s amazing that a kid at the age of 17 could become a multimillionaire. He had an idea and sold it off and is now set for life if he wanted to be. Instead he wanted more and is now working full time for yahoo. This is the epitome of a young entrepreneur.