At 19, Ben Way is already a millionaire, and one of a growing number of teenagers who have Their fortune through the Internet. makes Bens story all the more remarkable is that he is dyslexic, and was by teachers at his junior school that he would never be able to read or write . I wanted to prove them , says Ben, creator and director of Waysearch, a net search engine which can be used to find goods in online shopping malls. When he was eight, his local authorities him with a PC to help with school work. Although he was to read the manuals, he had a natural ability with the computer, and by his father, he soon began people $l0 an hour for his knowledge and skills. At the age of 15 he up his own computer consultancy, Quad Computer, which he ran from his bedroom, and two years later he left school to all his time to business. By this time the company had grown and I needed to take on a of employees to help me, says Ben. That enabled me to start business with bigger companies. It was. his ability to consistently difficult challenges that led him to win the Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the same year that he formed Waysearch, and he has recently signed a deal $25 million with a private investment company, which will finance his search engine. 词汇: remarkable / rimɑ:k bl / a.卓越的,值得注意的 dyslexic /disleksik / a.诵读困难的 n.诵读困难者 |