Ashley Qualls - 17 Year Old Dot Com Millionaire
Establishing a website that attracts around 7 million visitors a month is a great achievement by anyone’s standards, but when the creator is a 17 year old high school drop out, well that’s nothing short of brilliance. Ashley Qualls created Whateverlife.com from conception right through to development and the site has grossed over $1 million in Ad revenue with its first 2 years!
Basically the site is aimed at teenage girls wishing to customise their Myspace profiles. Whateverlife.com provides Myspace layouts and a customisation tool to create very personalised layouts. The idea is borderline genius. Having catered specifically for a niche market, the site has very much stayed for the long haul and continues to grow.
Having already turned down a very nice offer of $1.5 million for the site and any car worth up to $100,000, Ashley has turned her focus in growing the company and adapting to manage not only developers –for-hire in India, but her mother and friends.
Ashley Qualls and her website Whateverlife.com are great examples of the fact that despite location, age or funding, anyone can become a dot com professional. All you need is the drive and ingenuity.
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