10 Of The Most Successful Young Entrepreneurs


#3.Caine Monroy

At the age of 9, Caine Monroy spent his summer vacation building an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store. The entire summer went by and Caine didn’t have a single customer. Then on the last day of summer, a filmmaker named Nirvan Mullick stopped to buy a door handle for his car. Caine asked Nirvan to play and Nirvan bought a $2 FunPass becoming Caine’s first customer.

Inspired by Caine’s creativity, Nirvan came back to make a short film about Caine’s Arcade and organized a flashmob to increase the awareness of the arcade. The film on its release to Vimeo, soon became a viral video. Numerous people donated money towards Caine's college fund. Nirvan and the team started the Imagination Foundation, a non-profit group, which aimed to find and foster creativity and entrepreneurship in children across the world.

#4.Jack Kim

At the age of 16, Jack Kim founded Benelab, a non-profit internet startup that has potential of saving people’s lives. During his freshman year at King's High School in Shoreline, Jack Kim learned how to code HTML and build websites. His first website was an elementary search engine that made Kim $200 to $300 a month from 2,000 monthly visitors. That’s when he learned the power of a search engine in generating revenue from little traffic.  From this experience, Kim decided he could use a search engine to generate donations. He says the search engine's mission is "to make philanthropy easy and more accessible." Kim is unsure about what will happen to Benelab when he graduates, but his goal is to get the company to $100,000 before high school ends.

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