At the age of fifteen, most kids are in their sophomore year of high school.  At the age of fifteen, most kids are in the midst of puberty, have absolutely no sense of self, and are a bit lost in the social strata of high school.  At the age of fifteen, most kids have done nothing of true relevance to the world (though, since fifteen is a relatively young age, this is absolutely fine).  However, at the age of fifteen, Andrew Sutherland launched a business that would change the world of studying forever.

In his sophomore French class, young Andrew Sutherland badly needed to pass his next test.  In order to do this, he created a web program to help him learn and study different French terms.  When he successfully passed the test, he decided to keep using his pet project, sharing it with his peers so that they could all pass French class.  After about two years of both using and building his product, Sutherland decided to release Quizlet to the world.

Andrew enrolled in MIT and lived for three years as both a student and owner of a fast-growing company.  He dropped out in his junior year of college to work on Quizlet full-time, six years after his first French test.  Now, more than a decade later, Quizlet has over 50 million monthly learners and 350 million different study sets, as well as accumulating over 3 billion study sessions over the years.  Helping both middle schoolers learning vocabulary words and med students trying to ace their MCATs, Quizlet has become a worldwide study tool.  Earning revenues of over 10 million dollars per year, Andrew Sutherland runs a multi-million dollar company, earning a spot on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list twice.  Since the age of fifteen, Andrew has been on top of the world, and it seems that there’s no way to go but up from here.