Catherine Cook came up with the idea for myYearbook when she was 15 along with her brother.  They decided to make the ute when the realized that the yearbook at their current school struggled to bring students together.At the time, neither Catherine or her brother knew how to program. They found a team of developers in Mumbai and sent them hundreds of spec sheets and pen-on-paper wireframes. they were able to launch in their high school in April One of the main advantages of this company was that there was no risk to starting a company while still in high school and living at their mom’s house.  The worst thing that could happen was that they couldn’t get anyone to join and that we would fail, but then they could still succeed in college. One of the main disadvantages was that it was hard to be taken seriously at first because they were still teenagers. Their site gained 1 million members within the first year.  At that point they realized that myYearbook was going to be a great success and climbed to 32.7M members. recently they have sold the company for $100M and are living very comfortably at the moment.