Teenage millionaires who got rich all by themselves

Jon Koon

Jonathan Koon was a millionaire by the age of 16 and a billionaire before he turned 30. Koon started out when still in high school by importing car tuning accessories from Asia. By his 16th birthday he was operating multiple accounts selling custom body kits, wheels, rims and stereo kits from Asian manufacturers via his company Extreme Performance Motorsports.

Koon really hit the big time when Extreme Performance Motorsports became one of the main suppliers for MTV’s classic Pimp My Ride TV series. He decided to take a break from business in order to attend Georgetown University, but by then he was already a multi-millionaire.
When Koon got his degree in international business and management, he decided to move into the fashion industry and bought brand 8732 from Jay Z. Today he runs Tykoon Brand Holdings, which runs a variety of fashion brands that he says is worth $80 million.

Robert Nay

Robert Nay was barely 14 years old when he developed Bubble Ball, an extremely popular mobile puzzle game. His app was downloaded over 2 million times from the Apple iTunes store in the two weeks after its launch in 2010, and has been downloaded 16 million times since.

Though Bubble Ball is still available and popular for download, Nay has continued to develop smartphone puzzles through his company Nay Games.
The teenager from Utah is said to have learned to code in his local library before spending a month writing the 4,000 lines of code needed to launch the game. According to estimates, Bubble Ball earned Nay over $2 million in those first two weeks of downloads alone.

Though Bubble Ball is still available and popular for download, Nay has continued to develop smartphone puzzles through his company Nay Games.
The teenager from Utah is said to have learned to code in his local library before spending a month writing the 4,000 lines of code needed to launch the game. According to estimates, Bubble Ball earned Nay over $2 million in those first two weeks of downloads alone.

Adam Hildreth

In the days before Facebook and Twitter ruled the social media roost, teenagers explored a variety of different websites for entertainment. Adam Hildreth was one of the first to cater to British teenagers online with his Dubit website, launched in 1999 when he was just 14 years old. Hildreth and his partners even made it into the Guinness Book of World Records for being the youngest group of directors in the UK.

At one point Dubit was the biggest social network for teenagers in the UK and it earned Hildreth $2.6 million by the time he was 19. He also knew when to get out of the social media game as bigger fish like MySpace and Facebook emerged. Hildreth now advises companies on how to advertise and market their products for younger audiences.
He has also launched Crisp Thinking, a company that develops ways to keep brands safe from social media risks like illegal and offensive content, spam, scams, social PR crises, trolls, security risks, IP and trademark violations and regulatory issues.