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This Entrepreneur Made $2.5MM By Age 21, Then Blew It All By 22

• byoung2 16y ago
  He missed a golden opportunity...they put a link to his new website, http://bemodel.com/ http://bemodel.com/, but the page doesn't load. He could have gotten a lot of traffic from that mention. Incidentally, when he mentions his number one competitor for the model site, he's probably talking about ModelMayhem.com. When I worked at Internet Brands, this site was being run on a few dozen servers and had several hundred dollars per month in Akamai fees. The site is hard to monetize because most of that traffic is there to look at pictures of seminude women, not to click on ads. I hope this guy has some money saved up to pay for a site like that.
• blaines 16y ago
  How did he lose $2.5 million?
  • byoung2 16y ago
    It was explained in a blog post linked to in the article: http://www.310andrewfashion.com/2009/11/30/young-stupid-how-i-lost-my-millions/ http://www.310andrewfashion.com/2009/11/30/young-stupid-how-...