Millionaire at 16
Sixteen-year-old Christian Owens (his mother is a secretary and his father is a production worker) first started using a computer at the age of 7, and studied basic layout and web page design at 10 when he bought his first Mac. Soon, he used his pocket money for his first start-up Mac Box Bundle, which has already earned £ 700,000 since launch in 2008: the site sells combos from popular Mac programs that cost individually £ 400, and For example, they sell for £ 100 and give 10% to charity. A year later, he launched his second start-up 'Branchr'(the next platform with pay-per-click ads) and worked on it after school and on weekends. In the first year, 'Branchr' earned £ 500,000 and now its clients include the largest bookmaker William Hill and the well-known MySpace.
Now Christian has 8 adult employees, both in America and in the United Kingdom (where he comes from), who are involved in sales and technical support of the site. He invests all the money that he now earns in his start-up, but next year Christian is going to open two offline offices.
He says: “The Mac Box Bundle was undoubtedly successful, but I wanted to do something else and then I got the idea of Branchr.”
“I think everyone has a commercial vein, but in order for it to grow into something more, you need a lot of experience and work on yourself.”
”My friends and I don’t really like talking about our success, I’m the same teenager as everyone the rest. ”
His company now sells over 250 million advertisements on 11,000 sites every month.