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The next time you hear someone say you’re too young to blah blah blah, tell them to shut up. Take a look at these web wunderkinds who are doing big things and proving that age ain’t nothing but a number.

Name [ Website ] Age – Company Revenue in Millions

  1. Mark Zuckerberg [ Facebook ] 23 years old – $700MM
  2. Andrew Gower [ Runescape ] 28 years old – $650MM
  3. Blake Ross and David Hyatt [ Mozilla ] 22 years old – $120MM
  4. Chad Hurley [ YouTube ] 30 years old – $85MM
  5. Angelo Sotira [ Deviant Art ] 26 years old – $75MM
  6. John Vechey [ PopCap Games ] 28 years old – $60MM
  7. Alexander Levin [ WordPress ] 23 years old – $57MM
  8. Alexander Levin [ ImageShack ] 23 years old – $56MM
  9. Jake Nickell [ Threadless ] 28 years old – $50MM
  10. Sean Belnick [ BizChair ] 20 years old – $42MM
  11. Kevin Rose [ Digg ] 30 years old – $31MM
  12. Robert Small [ MiniClips ] 24 years old – $23MM
  13. Ryan Block [ Engadget ] 25 years old – $20MM
  14. Aodhan Cullen [ StatCounter ] 24 years old – $18MM
  15. Tom Fulp [ Newgrounds ] 29 years old – $15MM
  16. Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker [ Voltage ] 24 years old – $12MM
  17. Markus Frind [ Plentyoffish ] 29 years old – $10MM
  18. Catherine and David Cook [ myYearbook ] 17 & 19 years old – $10MM
  19. Fredrik Neij [ The Pirate Bay ] 28 years old – $10MM
  20. David Levich [ Iced Out Gear ] 25 years old – $10MM
  21. David Hauser & Siamak Taghaddos [ Gotvmail ] 24 years old – $8MM
  22. Jermaine Griggs [ Hear and Play ] 23 years old – $5MM
  23. Jay Westerdal [ Domain Tools ] 29 years old – $5MM
  24. Ashley Qualls [ Whateverlife ] 17 years old – $3MM
  25. Mario Lavandeira [ Perez Hilton ] 29 years old – $3MM
  26. Ben Way [ Rain Makers ] 27 years old – $2.2MM
  27. Lauris Liberts [ Frype ] 25 years old – $2MM
  28. Alex Tew [ Million Dollar Homepage ] 22 years old – $1.6MM
  29. Rob Benwell [ Blogging to the Bank ] 23 years old – $1.2MM
  30. Matt Wegrzyn [ Bodis ] 19 years old – $1MM

Hey what are you still doing reading this? Shouldn’t you be brainstorming your next million dollar idea?

Thanks to Michael over at Retire@21 for posting the original article here.



Comments

3 Responses to “Top 30 Internet Websites Run by People 30 and Under”

  1. Navid on February 20th, 2008 11:45 pm

    I run a 1/2 Million site, its growing as we speak :)

  2. Cloridan on May 6th, 2008 1:46 am

    I run http://www.devilsown.org and it’s only a 10.00 site

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