In recent years there has been a change, in the distribution of wealth.
There is a new generation of Millionaires. These new breed are mostly
in their early 20s and 30s.
Young adults, some are still in their teens. How did they come to
acquire such wealth?
The internet has changed the way the world is run forever. With more
and more people getting online each year, a bulk of the users are
made up of young people.
Most of them are tech savvy unlike their yesteryear generation who
were born without computers and depended on traditional media.
These youngsters are creating their own world in the cyberspace.
Recent Rich
One of the most prominent billionaire is still in his 20s and he
became the youngest billionaire at the age of 23.
He is none other than Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Even
Hollywood made a movie about how Facebook came into existence,
Social Network.
A few young Harvard students locked themselves up in their
dormitory and worked till the wee hours in the morning to come up
with a social network service that will allow them to meet girls.
That was their primary goal at that point of time. On the first day it
was launched, few thousand users signed up to their service.
Later on, they expanded Facebook to other Colleges in America, and
it grew rapidly. Only after a few months of launching it, they hit a
million Facebook users.
They did not know even know how they were going to make money
out of it. That wasn't their primary aim but it totally changed the way
people are communicating today.
Have you had a day, where you didn't log in to your Facebook account
at all? We have become so depended to it and can't seem to live
without it.
How Mark Zuckerberg and his friends did knew they were creating
something so powerful, well they didn't know but they did think
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about one thing. They had only one purpose when they created
Facebook.
Their main goal was to connect everyone through a single medium of
communication.
Today Facebook has more than 850 million users and about to reach
1 billion users very soon. At this very moment it is about to become a
listed company in the US stock market. It might reach a valuation of a
$100 billion dollars.
At least a 1000 of their employees are going to become
multimillionaires and the major shareholders are already billionaires.
Working on a startup is one way to the riches but you need to have
the right people, talent and a little ingenuity.
Facebook exploded in cyberspace because it served a major purpose.
It changed the way people socialized with others.
Can you think of a way to change the world even in a small way? It
doesn't have to be something new but maybe need a little
improvement.
Facebook was not a new idea as well; there were many social media
sites before that. They took the basic idea and made it better, much
better.
Do you have the hunger?
Do you have a burning desire in you to succeed? Many of the most
successful people in the world started from humble beginnings. They
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didn't have all the resources or tools to get what they want but they
pushed themselves through the limit.
Tony Robbins was an overweight kid who was living alone in his
apartment. He was suffering from depression.
He was working as a janitor for a school with low wage. How did he
change his life remarkably?
He's one of the world’s top speakers today, how did he manage to
come out of his poor life.
Even he didn't realize how popular he was until one day, he was in a
helicopter going to his venue where he was about to speak.
He saw the roads at the bottom, there was a long crawl. The traffic
was at a standstill and he thought to himself, "where ever this people
are going, I hope they reach there in time".
Little did he know, by the time he reaches the place and came down
from his helicopter, the place was crowded with people and cars. That
is when it hit him, the traffic was at a standstill because it was the
people who were coming to his seminar, to see him speak and
motivate them.
It was one of the most defining moments in his life. It was an
experience he will never forget.
He was hungry for success because he wasn't happy with how his life
was. The amazing thing is he didn't accept that kind of life.
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If you want to succeed, you need to have a drive and put in your full
effort in whatever you do.
Starting a business is no easy task. Will you keep going when
everything else is in your way, trying to stop you from getting what
you want?
If live without a desire or goals in your life, it’s not going to be
fulfilling life. Only you can decide the type of life you want and what
you want to do with it.
