英16歲少年開辦網站成百萬富翁

導讀：16歲時你在幹什麼？忙着應付學業還是盡情玩耍？而英國少年歐文斯16歲時則通過經營網站，賺得了他人生中的第一桶金，僅用了短短兩年時間，就進入了英國百萬富翁(millionare)的行列。而這一切，都源於蘋果公司CEO史蒂夫·喬布斯成功故事的激勵。

Few could truly claim that teens are, on the whole, terribly useful.

很少有人能斷言，年僅十幾歲的少年一般能大獲成功。

It helps if you have a strong admiration for Apple CEO Steve Jobs.

如果你十分仰慕蘋果CEO史蒂夫·喬布斯，那麼這個故事會使你深受啓發。

According to the Daily Mail, Christian Owens, a 16-year-old from Corby in the United Kingdom, happened to be moved by the revolutionary chief executive. So, at the age of 14, he created a company called Mac Bundle Box, a neat little way for people to save money on various Mac OS X apps.

《每日郵報》報道稱，英國科爾比市16歲的男孩克里斯蒂安·歐文斯，正是受了這位大膽創新的CEO啓發。所以，在14歲時，他創辦了名爲"Mac Bundle Box"的公司，打包低價出售蘋果公司產品的各種應用軟件。

Not only was Owens a teen who enjoyed saving his customers money, he even donated some of his profits to charity. And still he made 700,000 British pounds. Which feels like a million dollars.

歐文斯不單只是喜歡爲顧客省錢的少年，他甚至還將公司的一部分利潤捐給慈善機構。除此之外他還掙到了70萬英鎊，相當於100萬美金。

Owens does look a little on the nerdy side, with happily unruly curly hair and glasses that somehow reminded me of the cult classic "Joe 90," in which a 9-year-old becomes a special agent.

看上去歐文斯確實有點書生氣，一頭肆意雜亂無章的捲髮，一副眼鏡；不知爲何，他的形象讓我想起經典劇集《小飛諜》中那個9歲的小特工。

His words to the Mail, though, sound as if they came from an old man who has seen it all: "I think everyone has business sense in them, they just need to gain experience and be determined to make it."

但他在接受《每日郵報》採訪時的一番話，聽上去卻老氣橫秋：“我認爲每個人都有商業頭腦，他們只需要積累經驗並下定決心。”

Though he admires Apple`s magical revolution, Owens isn`t quite so convinced that magic truly has any part of business success. "There is no magical formula to business, it takes hard work, determination and the drive to do something great," he told the Mail.

儘管十分欣賞蘋果公司那些不可思議的創新，但歐文斯並不認爲商業成功真的存在什麼制勝法寶。他在接受《每日郵報》採訪時表示：“商業並無神奇公式，努力、決心和動力纔是成就非凡的不二法門。”

His determination is so great that he has already created a new company, Branchr, a pay-per-click advertising company that distributes more than 300 million ads every month all over the Web.

顯然他的決心無比堅定，他又開設了一家名爲"Branchr"的付費點擊廣告公司，該公司每月在各大小網站上發佈超過3億次的廣告。

Now one can argue about whether the Web really needs more than 300 million ads strewn all over its pristine pages. But one can surely only admire the fact that Branchr seems not only to be doing well, but also to have already acquired another company, Atomplan.

儘管人們可能會發問到，該網站是否需要鋪滿3億份廣告。但令人讚歎的是，事實上"Branchr"不僅運營得很好，而且已將另一家公司"Atomplan"收至麾下。

And between Mac Bundle Box and Branchr he`s made around 1.2 million British pounds, which is close to $2 million.

通過"Mac Bundle Box"和"Branchr"這兩個公司，他已經淨賺120萬英鎊，約合近200萬美金。

Owens, who already employs eight people of legal drinking age, told the Mail: "I don`t know where I will be in 10 years time but I won`t leave Branchr until it has reached 100 million pounds."

歐文斯手下的8名員工，全部都是成年人，他表示：“我不知道10年以後我身在何方，但我不會離開"Branchr"公司，除非市值達到1億英鎊。”

This will presumably be when he is, oh, 19.

而這一想法很有可能在他19歲時實現。