El Financiero / At the age of 18, he is leading a NASA-backed space project for teenagers. He has a flame -Bae- as a pet and is invited to give motivational talks to other young people. As it did?
Erik Finman was 12 years old - in 2011 - when his grandmother gave him a thousand dollars in Bitcoin as part of a fund for his studies. At that time the digital currency was still only worth $ 12.
By 2014, at age 15 and a Bitcoin worth almost $ 900, Finman, who hated school, made a deal with his parents: they would let him leave Idaho high school, sell $ 100,000 of his bitcoins to found An educational technology company called Botangle. If he was a millionaire at age 18, his parents would not make him go to college. The deal was accepted by his parents, reports a Business Insider report.
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The young entrepreneur moved to Silicon Valley, where Botangle started. In 2015 he sold his company to accumulate 450 bitcoins. This month (August 2017) the value of the virtual currency soared to $ 4,300, making its net worth at $ 1.7 million. Now, at age 18, he is officially a millionaire, so - according to the deal with his parents - he will not go back to school.
But Finman is not only enjoying his money, he has invested $ 100,000 in a NASA-supervised space project called: Da Vinci, which consists of sending a time capsule (which is a container in which objects from the Current time and sealed for a certain time) to space for orbiting the Earth.
Da Vinci is a project in which Finman teamed up with other young people from an independent school in his native Idaho and has had such an impact on networks that pop star Taylor Swift even contributed a signed copy of his 1989 album.
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The launch of the satellite is scheduled for the first half of next year. This is the official video of the Da Vinci project.
Finman says he has a strong interest in pursuing entrepreneurship. One day, he says, he even competes with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and one of his personal heroes.
I want to get to Mars (...) Maybe one day, I will defeat Elon ...
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