Internet Millionaires Success Stories

RYAN'S WORLD. Eight-year-old Ryan Kaji is the highest paid content creator on Youtube in 2019. Photo from Ryan's World's Facebook page Eight-year-old Ryan Kaji earned $26 million in 2019 on his YouTube channel, making him the highest-paid creator on the platform, according to a list published Wednesday, December 17 by  Forbes  magazine. Kaji, whose real name is Ryan Guan, was already the video platform's highest earner in 2018, with $22 million, according to  Forbes. His channel  Ryan's World,  launched in 2015 by Ryan's parents, is only 3 years old but already has 22.9 million subscribers. Initially called  Ryan ToysReview,  the channel mostly consisted of "unboxing" videos – videos of the young star opening boxes of toys and playing with them. Several of the videos have racked up more than one billion views, and the channel has received almost 35 billion views since its creation, according to data from the analytics website Social Bl...

If you’re a Facebook user, you may have heard of a game called Farmville. A repetitive simulation game that involved planting and raising crops, Farmville was nonetheless Zynga’s most popular game. While other people were content merely to play the game, local entrepreneur Chan Peng Joon  earned over USD$1.2 million by selling guides to it. “The way I look at it, it’s a gold rush. There will be a small minority who strike gold, while the rest lose out,” says the 27 year old, describing his philosophy behind online marketing.

At 15, Catherine Cook and her brother Dave, 17, were flipping through their high school yearbook and came up with the idea to develop a free interactive version online. In 2005, the two convinced their older brother Geoff, a budding Web entrepreneur himself, to invest $250,000 and his time to help them launch MyYearbook.com, a social-networking site, based in Skillman, N.J.