Teen dropshippers treated self-mythologized entrepreneurship as the path to wealth

Evidence

With no college degree required, dropshipping also became a way for teens to strike it rich. Fourteen-year-old Londoner Alex Philip profited 5,000 a month from his Shopify store, crediting his entrepreneurial destiny to childhood quirks: "Whenever I found loose change anywhere my dad would say it was a sign that I would make loads of money." Aaron Grant, another junior capitalist wunderkind, started out selling candy at his high school before launching DropshipVenture. For his eighteenth birthday, he bought himself a 100,000 BMW M4. The ultimate dropshipper flex, however, wasn’t just getting rich—it was monetizing wisdom. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 821

Categorization

• CANDY: The eighteen-year-old buying himself a $100,000 BMW and the teen monetizing ‘wisdom’ under The 4-Hour Workweek is vivid, self-contained material.