7 teenagers became a millionaire without college degree

7 – Ashley Qualls

Ashley Qualls became a millionaire at 17 yrs old with her company “Layout Loot”, which helped teens create profile layouts and web designs for their MySpace pages (back when it was popular). She did this without having a website design college degree, likely by taking online web development courses online.

She became a millionaire in just ad-revenue alone and never actually had to sell a physical product, all working from home! Now that’s living the dream.

6 – Nick D’Aloisio

Mobile app development is a huge industry. At just 17 years old, Nick D’Aloisio became a millionaire by selling his custom software development called “Summly” to Yahoo for $30 million.  He’d been creating apps since he was 12 years old and first got noticed for his app “Trimit”. If you’re an app developer or are looking for one, now’s the time to get started because the market is hot!

5 – Cameron Johnson

Johnson’s parents wanted him to design some invitations for a holiday party that they were putting on as hosts.  After that he had a slew of requests for similar design work and he would eventually create “Cheers And Tears,” a greeting card company at just 12 years old. He invested the money he earned to launch surfingprizes.com. The site was a pay-per-ad toolbar for website surfers that made him on average $350,000 per month! Not bad for not attending college.

4 – Jon Koon

This is one guy who doesn’t have to worry about paying his car insurance. Remember the TV show on MTV called “Pimp My Ride?” Well Koon who was only 16 years old when he owned the automotive shop called Extreme Performance Motorsports where he would trick out rides. At just 16 years old he was worth $1M dollars. Koon’s success hasn’t slowed down since, and can probably afford to donate a car for free at this point.

3 – Tyler Dikman

Cyber security, and network security is a growing market, and Tyler was one of those kids who was just born for entrepreneurial success. At five years old he was selling lemonade and making over $20 an hour. At age ten he was performing magic shows for $74 per hour and would eventually create cooltronics.com. It was a website where he taught lessons to computer owners on internet safety, virus removal, and other various computer lessons. He was a millionaire by 17 just from being knowledgeable in IT security.

2 – Adam Horwitz
Website design and web development is a huge industry. When Horwitz was 15 years old, he launched 30 different websites in an attempt to make money online. Unfortunately none of them were successful at the time. That didn’t stop him though and he eventually began churning website after website offering online courses (similar to online college classes) that teach how to make money through mobile marketing. He became a millionaire at just 18 years old, all without a college degree.

1 – Juliette Brindak
Juliette was just a mere 10 years old when she created a string of characters called Miss O and Friends, a web-game about fashion. She did this without having a website design college degree, likely by taking online web development courses online.

She went live with her idea with the help of her parents in 2005 by creating an online community for girls.  This childhood tycoon got an investment from Proctor and Gamble 6 years ago and at the time was valued at over $15M.