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Category: Internet Gurus

Top 50 Internet Moguls Under the Age of 30 – Part 1

This really kills me! 50 people under the age of 30 and are already millionaires. They all could retire right now and never work again and still enjoy the good life. Oh what a life!!

Well…here we go!

  1. Mark Zuckerberg is 23 and created Facebook worth $700 million
  2. Andres Gower is 28 and created Runescape which is worth $650 million
  3. Chad Hurley is 30 and created Youtube worth $300 million
  4. Blake Ross & David Hyatt are 22 and created Mozilla software worth $120 million
  5. Andrew Michael is 29 and created Fast Hosts worth $110 million
  6. Angelo Sotira is 26 and created Deviant Art worth $75 million
  7. John Vechey is 28 and created PopCap Games worth $60 million
  8. Alexander Levin is 23 and created Image Shack worth $56 million
  9. Jack Nickell is 28 and created Threadless worth $50 million
  10. Greg Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith are 28 and created Tagged worth $45 million
  11. Sean Belnick is 20 and created BizChair worth $42 million
  12. Matt Mullenweg is 23 and created WordPress worth $40 million
  13. Kevin Rose is 30 and created Digg worth $31 million
  14. Aodhan Cullen is 24 and created Stat Counter worth $25 million
  15. Markus Frind is 29 and created Plenty of Fish worth $23 million
  16. Robert Small is 24 and created miniClips worth $23 million
  17. Ryan Block is 25 and created Engadget worth $20 million
  18. Matt Mickiewicz is 24 and created Sitepoint worth $18 million
  19. Tom Fulp is 29 and created Newgrounds worth $15 million
  20. Rishi Kacker and Matt Pauker are 24 and created Voltage worth $12 million
  21. Catherine and David Cook are 17 & 19 and created My Year Book worth $10 million
  22. Fredrik Neij is 28 and created The Pirate Bay worth $10 million
  23. David Levich is 25 and created Iced Out Gear worth $10 million
  24. Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons are 30/29 and created Yelp worth $10 million
  25. David Hauser & Siamak Taghaddos are 24 and created Gotvmail worth $8 million

There’s the top 25 youngest Internet Moguls in the world. What a bunch of brillant people!

Joel Comm Earning $24,000 per month

Joel Comm earns approximately $24,000 per month on the Internet. He is genuine get rich quick guru.

Joel wrote the best selling e-book, What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense. The e-book, along with the website that promotes it, has a screen shot of Joel Comm’s AdSense earnings from a single month; 11/19/2005 to 12/15/2005. I’m not sure whether Joel Comm still makes this much from Google. It’s possible he makes even more!

Shawn Hogan’s DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month

Google pays Digital Point about $10,000 a month, depending on how many people view or click on those ads, according to Shawn D. Hogan, owner and CTO of Digital Point.

Digital Point Solutions is a software company in San Diego which publishes an online forum, forums.digitalpoint.com. The forum attracts about 15,000 users and much more visitors. Any forum member who starts a new forum discussion topic receives half of the advertising revenue paid to the site by Google for ads on the front page of that topic section. The discussion’s creator then splits his share with others who post messages. Google does not actually advertise on the Digital Point site. Through Google’s AdSense program, it places ads on the forum, similar to the ads that appear next to search results on Google. Google scans the text on the forum’s pages, then displays related ads. If the discussion is about computer hardware, for instance, ads for DVD drives might display.

Mr. Hogan said he started the revenue sharing approach in 2004 “as kind of a marketing gimmick.”

“But everyone seemed to think it was a cool idea,” he said. “I saw a lot of other sites doing the same thing maybe six months later.”

Shawn said it was difficult to say whether the financial incentives had made the forum’s participants more active, because its growth rate was about the same before and after it started paying users. Either way, the payoff is small.

“In the best case scenario, someone might make $50 a month, so they’re definitely not quitting their jobs to do this,” he said. “But it might be enough to buy a nice dinner.”

One concern, Shawn said, was whether the forum’s members would skew their postings to earn more money. For instance, since advertisers in some categories, like sexual performance drugs, pay much more to place their ads on Google and its affiliated sites, you might expect technology discussions to randomly veer in that direction.

“But that hasn’t happened, thankfully,” Shawn said. “Probably because there isn’t that much revenue in it for them.”

Matther Daimler 28 yr old Earns $10K – $20K per Month

Matther Daimler Earns $10,000 – $20,000 per month.

Twenty-eight year old Matther Daimler developed a passion for locating the most comfortable seats on the long airline flights he took while traveling on business. He would take note of the better seated passengers and think: “He has more leg room. I want that seat next time.”

The biggest internet moneymakers seem to be average people who created sites to share their passions.  The key to making money is simple. Get traffic and lots of it. It is that simple.

In 2001, he created a library on his SeatGuru site of all the seats on his usual United Airlines flight. He rated them according to legroom, access to video and audio entertainment, recline, , and proximity to laptop power sources. Soon he started recording information on other flights as requests from people came in from his website. Matther now keeps track of seats on 34 airlines.

Matthew Daimler and his wife now work full time on SeatGuru. The website attracts some 700,000 visitors a month. Approximately 50% of the site’s revenue comes from Google AdSense, that’s $10,000 to $20,000 a month. The other 50% rolls in from ad deals that Matther makes with companies directly.

Dansette