The entrepreneurial spirit starts early for many teenagers, but for most things like high school, college and social lives overpower the urge to start a business. But not every teenager.
Wisebread takes a look at some incredibly successful young entrepreneurs, who all started their empires in their teens.
Matt Mullenweg is another software developer who found success at a very early age. When Matt was 19, he announced that he would be starting an open source initiative for better blogging software and started WordPress.
Since then the software programmer started Automattic, which has two flagship products Akismet, a trap for site comment spam, and WordPress.com, the hosted version of the open source WordPress software.
Since founding Automattic, the company has raised over $30 million dollars and owns some of the most popular software on the Web.
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