10. Erik Finman was a millionaire at 17 years
In 2011, Erik Finman discovered Bitcoin when he and his brother went for a protest in Washington, DC. It was within that period he invested about $1,000 into the cryptocurrency.
At 15, Erik Finman made a deal with his parents that if he made it with crypto trading, he would drop out of school, but if he didn't before his 18th birthday, he would return to high school. Erik Finman made it when he was 17 years old after he became a millionaire from the Bitcoin he traded — he made a million dollars and remained a high school dropout.
Recalling what happened to him when he was struggling, Finman said, "People didn't really get what I was trying to do, get what I was searching for or what I was dreaming of. I had one teacher tell me, yeah, drop out, work at McDonald’s since I’ll never amount to anything more in life."
