A 13-year-old started a server business after reading about it online, expecting to make $10,000 a year for clothes money. She ended up earning hundreds of thousands annually, more than her teachers. At school, she was bullied and called a geek, even by other computer club members.
When I was 13, I started a dedicated server and colocation business because that's what I thought you did in high school. I don't know why, but I thought it was kind of normal. And I grew that to about a few hundred grand in revenue.
Did you know somebody else doing it? Why would you think that's normal?
I don't know. I was on like the internet forums. You know, there are lots of people who do this. I just wanted to make like $10,000 a year to buy some clothes and not have to like go work at the shopping mall.
Were you cool in school? Were you like— No. Smart, popular kid, or who were you?
Total geek. Weak loser. I was so lame. I went to the computer club at my high school, which is all the nerds who also had no other friends, so you have to be friends with each other. They were making fun of me and they were bullying me. I was literally on the bottom of the bottom.
Did you make the 10 grand off that?
I was making like hundreds of thousands of dollars a year off of it. I was making more money than my teacher.
