15 Years Old and a Millionaire
Background
When Adam Horwitz was a 15-year-old high school sophomore growing up in the Pacific Palisades, a mean-spirited gossip blog caught fire with his classmates. Concerned parents soon stomped it out, but Adam’s newfound desire to find online success would prove much harder to extinguish.
The Beginning
He started Urban Stomp, a website where he posted music and the locations of parties in the area. The site made a profit by selling clothes through affiliate links. Adam proved too successful for his own good: Urban Stomp drove 800 people to one party. He had to shut it down after only a few weeks.
Today
Adam has learned from his mistakes and now teaches people age 15 and older how to make money online. He practices what he preaches: his courses, ‘Mobile Monopoly’ and ‘Cell Phone Treasure’, have each earned over $100,000 and he has another one in the works, called ‘Dude I Hate My Job’. To get his blood flowing, Adam enjoys driving his newly-purchased 2010 Audi A5 and playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on his Xbox 360.
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This is a really intriguing story for someone to have come up with this idea and be this profitable so quick. I wonder how long he can continue to have such immense success creating courses about things he no longer is doing as he focuses on making these instead. The concept of a blog informing people about various night-life and social events could be huge if you could stake a market as the definitive source, even in just one city.
What a fascinating story! Like the above comment said, if he could find a way to get the message out to the right people so that the same problems do not happen, this could be a great idea. Regardless, it sounds like he’s living an okay life. In the spirit of a true entrepreneur, he turned his failures into opportunities.
This might have been where Party X came into play. The app he first created would have worked well for college students more than high schoolers. He could of also gotten a lot of people in trouble. Now creating classes to help people sell things online is really cool. It would be neat to see his classes get picked up by a college or university.