Entrepreneurs Who Prove Age Is Just A Number

Children’s Day is always a special day. It is a day meant to remember your inner child and embrace all the dreams you had growing up. While you were dreaming about your plans and working to make them come true, there were entrepreneurs who didn’t just dream, but also turned their dreams into reality. Here’s taking a look at entrepreneurs who made it to the rich club even before they turned 21!

1. Juliette Brindak 

Company: Miss O and Friends

Net worth: $ 15 Billion

Starting age: 16

How often have you sketched and doodled and willed your characters to come to life without much success? Juliette Brindak, the founder of Miss O and Friends, was just like that. However, unlike the rest of us dreamers, she realised her true purpose in life lay in bringing her creations to life. By the age of 16, she opened her own website, Miss O and Friends and now, the company is a dream come true! It really does not take too long to realise your dreams and make them come true, right?

2. Ritesh Agarwal 

Company: OYO Rooms

Net worth: $ 55 million

Starting age: 18 years

When Ritesh Agarwal dropped out at the age of 17, he knew his future was to be an entrepreneur. At the age of 13, he started selling SIM cards to start making money for his future project and by 17, he had enough money to go out on his own. When he started out, Ritesh was one of the first people at the time to secure a grant of $ 100,000! Today, Ritesh Agarwal is one of the most successful entrepreneurs in India.

3. Mark Zuckerberg 

Company: Facebook

Net worth: Close to a trillion dollars

Starting age: 18 years

Mark Zuckerberg’s rise to success is a story everyone has heard time and again. A college dropout with the aim of making a truly unique website, Zuckerberg, with the help of his friends, gave birth to Facebook. Taking off from where MySpace ended, Facebook initially started off as a website meant only for Harvard students. However, looking at the immense popularity of Facebook, Zuckerberg decided to make the platform available to everyone. Today, the company is so successful, it is one of the richest companies in the world!

4. Matt Mullenweg

Company: WordPress

Valuation: $ 40 Million

Starting age: 19 years

Just like Zuckerberg, Mullenweg started working on WordPress when he was in college. At the age of 19, when he was at the University of Houston, he dropped out of college to make his dream come true. Starting with a team of only five people, Mullenweg now runs a supremely successful blog space that is used by professionals and amateurs all over the world.

5. Peter Cashmore 

Company: Mashable.com

Valuation: $ 70 million

Starting age: 20 years

Peter Cashmore, a name that has featured on the list of Forbes’s 30 under 30 list of immensely successful people for a long time now, started his climb to success at a very young age. Armed with only an idea to his name and a dream to make it big, Peter has a come long way from his early days. Now, years later, Peter Cashmore runs Mashable.com, which has a reader base of 10 million on a daily basis and is one of the most popular websites in the world.

These entrepreneurs have reached a point of commendable success only because they worked hard at making their dreams come true. If you have the dreams, make them come true!