At an age when most people complete their studies and begin to earn a living, 22-year-old?Hayden Bowles has already retired.?
When he was just a teenager, Hayden Bowles dropped out of school to work in the e-commerce industry. Now, at only 22, the US entrepreneur has already managed to make millions of dollars and officially hang up his boots when it comes to active full-time work.
Millionaire?Bowles often uses TikTok and YouTube to share his story and explain how he set up various businesses in his teenage years, which helped him make a lot of money at a young age. He has over 13,000 followers on Instagram and 306,000 subscribers on YouTube.
Speaking about?what made him think about earning money at such a young age?and dropping out of school, Bowles said in one of his videos that an incident in his childhood made him realise the worth of money.?"I think I was 10 or 11 and I wanted to buy something but couldn't because I had no money and my parents wouldn't buy it for me. And I realised that I've got to make my own money."?
"I had started to make a pretty substantial income from my business when I was 17 years old, and that was in the e-commerce industry," he said in one of the videos. "I still work, I love to work but I am technically retired because of the money I've set aside from real estate. The money that pays me does support my lifestyle."
At the age of 17, Bowles founded?EcommSeason, which offers online courses costing up to $575 (about Rs 47,000).?By the time he was 18, Bowles said he had earned enough to buy himself a Lamborghini, and by 19, he was a millionaire.
In 2022, he earned $15 million in revenue, and $3 million in profit from his e-commerce platform, the Daily Mail reported. The 22-year-old has also managed to establish a real estate portfolio.
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22-year-old Bowles also?shared a few pointers on what "millionaires do". The first is to "live on 20 percent or less of what you make". "If you can do that, you're going to be able to save, invest, and double down so aggressively," Bowles said.??
"Number 2: Focus more attention on your income than anything else," he added. Instead of getting a side hustle, Bowles prefers having a "singular focus" and working more in the current business.
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