How do you make it to the millionaire rank at 21 ?
I am a great supporter for a young Malaysia blogger Alvin who is extremely creative in drawing. However, from his blog, I sense that he is not able to bring up the most potential due to the race based policy namely NEP (an affirmative action that discriminate and favor certain races in the country.)
In fact, this article on MSN titled “Meet the Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21″ potentate my empathy towards Alvin situation. I often wonder if these young people can achieve where they are now if they have not been in America ? Your say !
Anshul Samar, 14
Samar started his company with a $500 grant from the California Association of the Gifted. As founder and CEO of Alchemist Empire Inc., Samar says he spends most of his time “designing, engineering, R&D, corresponding with designers and artists, giving pitches to people that are interested, marketing, testing, and doing a lot of brainstorming.” That’s in addition to chatting up venture capitalists and lawyers, giving talks to parents and teachers, doing presentations at conferences, talking to the media, and finishing his homework. Because, after all, he’s only an eighth-grader.
Last May, Samar was the hit of TIEcon, a annual gathering of tech entrepreneurs, outshining such luminaries as Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff and eBay’s former CEO, Meg Whitman.
“Living in Silicon Valley, I have seen all of these people starting their own businesses, showing the world their product and being entrepreneurs,” says Samar. “Since fourth grade, I’ve dreamed of being the CEO of my own business. And now, in eighth grade, I am finally one.”
Here’s a riddle: How do you take $8 and turn it into a $1 million? Put it in the hands of Ashley Qualls. Three years ago, Ashley borrowed $8 from her mother, purchased the domain Whateverlife.com, and began posting her own MySpace backgrounds, free to download.
Heavy on hearts, frills and lyrics from popular songs, the designs were a huge hit with MySpace’s massive female population. Attracting hundreds of thousands of hits each day from 14- to 17-year-old girls, the site was a natural for advertisers. Last year, Whateverlife.com brought in $1 million in ad revenue and 7 million unique visitors each month.
And you can read the rest of the article in tech.msn.com
All pictures are courtesy of msn.com
I’m not sure whether NEP is the only cause…perhaps it’s our education system. I donno.
Still, there are people who have succeeded in malaysia before this…so I do believe that if there’s a will, there’s a way……maybe more bumps and potholes than the way in US. 
I personally think it takes double the effort.