Teen earned a million dollars on to Mac OS X applications

Success stories in the business world becomes more and more, and each has its own peculiarity. But this story is really quite unusual: it is a sixteen year olds, two years to earn $ 1 million. Christian Owens (Christian Owens) from the town of Corby in the UK is a big fan of Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs), and it was a strong personality and an example of the head of Apple inspired Man on accomplishments, writes Gizmodo.

It all began when Christian was seven years old - that's when he got his first computer. At ten he already had a Mac, and the boy alone learned web design. Finally, when he was fourteen (2008), Christian created his first company - website Mac Bundle Box. On it, users can buy a specific set of applications for Mac OS X with a big discount (instead of $ 400 the total cost of all the programs set retails for $ 40 thanks to an agreement with the creator of the site developers). Beautiful web resource designed in accordance with Apple's design and style created for Mac OS X applications, like the principle of work

MacHeist. In addition, with the purchase of a set of a certain number of people, they became available one additional secret appendix, which further attracted people. Part of the profits of the young Owens transferred to charity.

The idea of ​​the boy worked very well, and in just two years, he made a present state - 700 thousand. pounds, which is about one million dollars.

Now Christian is not sitting idly by. He has organized a new venture Branchr - advertising firm that operates on a "pay per click". At this point Branchr distributes 300 million ads per month to more than 17.5 thousands of websites and applications for the iPhone platform and Android. In its first year of existence of the firm, subject to strict targeted advertising, it has brought its $ 800 thousand creator. And this is not the limit - in the coming years, Christian plans to get to work Branchr income of $ 100 million. By the way, in a startup are eight employees, including the mother and boys.

According to Christian, his success is hard work, determination and a strong desire to do something meaningful. Indeed, such a position in life at such a young age, and even backed by real successes, a matter of respect.

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