The Youngest Entrepreneurs of the World

All across the world, the business world has witnessed immense growth and innovation. What is noteworthy is that few of these businesses are creations of young and enthusiastic people who have made it big with their vision and hard work. Their talent and vision, combined with their hard work have made them a well-known personality. Few of the youngest and talented entrepreneurs in the world today are listed below.

Anshul Samar

Anshul Samar belongs to the Silicon Valley of India, Bangalore. He is a tenth grader and had an incredible vision. He is the Founder and CEO of Alchemist Empire Inc. at present. He developed the idea to create a role playing a card game based on chemistry that will be both fun and educational. His dream formed when he was in the fourth grade. He wished to make the subject fun for kids. Now in the tenth grade, when he is of the age fourteen, he has already released his first game from the company and has found huge success.

Palmer Luckey

Palmer Luckey is the founder and CEO of Oculus VR. At the age of 21, Luckey’s company has raked in nearly $100 million from venture capitalists and $2.4 million from the crowd funding site Kickstarter. His company is presently in the league having won the official best CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Award in 2014.

Luckey developed a vision for the reality of the business world in his teen years itself. In his college, he crafted the first prototype of a virtual reality headset named the Oculus Rift. His company roughly employs five dozen people and Luckey is the CEO of his own company today. His innovations have received some really great reviews from the world.

Nic Borg

The co-founder of Edmodo, Nic Borg is at the age of 28 (June 2016) and today he along with his partner Jeff O’Hara together operates Edmodo that helps students learn and at the same time turn learning into a profit. They planned to design a tool to help merge how students live and how they learn. Today they have connected over 30 million students and teachers.

Edmodo serves as a privacy-protected platform that educators and students can learn, compare and collaborate and at the same time participate in sharing and discovering new resources and connecting safely in online classrooms. This education based startup has leveled revenue of nearly $60 million in just 5 years. It offers more than 600 apps from which it earns revenue.

Trip Adler

Trip Adler is the co-founder of Scribd, a digital library and ebook, audio book and comic book subscription service that includes over one million titles. Trip Adler is known to be a surfer, a saxophonist and a Harvard degree holder in biophysics. Adler co-founded scribd in 2007 as a content sharing platform.

Ever since the inception of Scribd, Adler had united with over 100 publishers and today he offers over 40 million free books and documents. Adler was named the best young Tech entrepreneur by Business week. His creation Scribd has offered the opportunity to many people to access unlimited best-selling books, court filings, academic papers and many other special documents. All you need is your smartphone and the app to get access to these features.

Brian Wong

At the age of 22, Wong is clearly set to be the king in mobile marketing business soon. In the time that most of the students graduate from college, Wong has raised for himself a whopping $15.4 million. His business vision aims at bringing a connection between companies and their customers.

He desires to do so through the means of ads, which are located strategically in mobile games. His ideology works in this way; when a user reaches a certain level in the game, an ad appears in the form of a reward for achieving the target. Today, many high-grade brands are making use of Wong’s product, including Pepsi, Sony, Amazon etc.

The Final Thoughts

These young entrepreneurs are savvy, ambitious, willing and determined. Not even having reached the third decade of their lives, these young minds have brought such innovations to the world that is highly commendable. The fortunes that they are presently earning are a compliment to the level of hard work they have placed and the vision that they have created to achieve this target. Their amazing ideas have taken the world by surprise and today we all make use of their innovations.

List of Top 5 Youngest Entrepreneurs from India

The past few years have witnessed an exemplary growth in the number of talented entrepreneurs who pose a promise to take India to new heights. These young minds have a vision, a dream, and the caliber to develop ideas and convert them into action. Among these are few young minds whose vision has taken flight from a very small age.

King Siddharta

King Siddharta has roots in Northern India where he belonged to a backward family. At the age of nineteen, he formed an association with few of his friends and began organizing small-scale events for teens. Their earnings were restricted to the entry fee charged by them for entry to these competitions and events.

King Siddharth has traveled a long way since then. Today, he organizes large conferences called Createens. It gives an opportunity to young students to learn blogging and entrepreneurship. He also stands to fame as a speaker, author, and magazine publisher helping and encouraging talented aspirants on their journey.

Arjun Rai

Arjun Rai is known to have developed the entrepreneur mindset right from the age of seven. At that age, he used to sell knickknacks that he found around his house. Along with his cousin, he set up a shop outside his grandmother’s place, selling leftover wildflower necklaces for 25 cents.

He got inspired by TV shows which made him think of entrepreneurship in an entirely different way. He was quick to set up an online identity through LinkedIn in the hope of learning more about the art of entrepreneurship. Today he leads his venture OdysseyAds.

Farrhad Acidwalla

Farrhad Acidwalla began his entrepreneurship with a small borrowing of 10$ from his parents. He made use of this money to buy his first domain name. This saw the beginning of the success of the man as he began building a web community devoted entirely to aviation and aero modeling.

Owing to its huge success he sold it at a profitable margin. Today, he has launched Rockstah Media, his own company, devoted to web development and branding. He has successfully connected many developers, designers, and market strategists to guide the company to success. He was born in Pune, Maharashtra in India. He completed his schooling from Bombay Scottish School, Mahim.

Ankur Jain

Ankur Jain is the son of Naveen Jain, who is the founder of Infospace and Intellius. Carrying forward the legacy of entrepreneurship in his genes, Ankur Jain began his own venture named Starnium at the mere age of 12. He graduated from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in May 2011. Joining hands with his college mates in Wharton, Ankur Jain has started a society ‘Kairos’.

This society runs a fellowship program that aims at bringing together undergraduate entrepreneurs from around the world. Kairos hosted its third annual global summit at the United Nations, New York Stock Exchange, and Rockefeller Estate, and also showcased 50 of the most innovative ventures launched by the society’s fellows.

Shravan Kumaran and Sanjay Kumaran

These two are regarded to be India’s youngest entrepreneurs. The 14 and 12 aged brothers are the founders of Go Dimensions, which is an app development unit. They made this development together in the year 2011 back in their hometown Chennai.

Since then, the tech geek brothers have developed around 11 apps which are available for download on the apple App store as well as Android platform through the play store. These apps have been a major success with a multitude of downloads. The brothers have also made various presentations at IIM-B as well as TedX conference.

Final Words

To sum up, these young entrepreneurs have an array of thoughts and ideas, a young vision and motivation to make their dream a reality. They are adept at combining their vision with creativity and hard work to transform their perception into reality. The result is a stream of new concepts and products being introduced in the market.

This has been possible because of learning business concepts since a very young age. These people have moved ahead to become entrepreneurs and earned global recognition for the same. Their ideology and thoughts are such that they can inspire any budding entrepreneur to explore and develop his art. We hope even you people take some inspiration from these guys and work harder in life.