These 10 Internet Whiz Kids Made Millions From Comfort Of Their Home
#8 Adam Hildreth
In 1999 Hildreth at tender age of 14 starting a social-networking outfit called Dubit Limited. Companies like Coca-Cola used the site's members for focus groups to help market their products to young people, reports Forbes.
Hildreth served as MD of Dubit for almost four years, leading it to become the most visited teen Web site in the U.K. In 2004, the British Broadcasting Corp. named Hildreth, then 19, one of the U.K.'s 20 richest teens, with an estimated net worth of 2 million pounds, or approximately $3.7 million.
Then he went and founded another business, Crisp Thinking, which developed software to protect children from "online groomers"--pedophiles trolling the Internet. According to a recent Cambridge University study, Crisp's software is 98.4 percent effective in detecting potentially dangerous conversations online.
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