He became rich without anyone knowing: who is Adnan Ebrahim

Adnan Ebrahim He is a journalist and investigates new technology companies that He managed to earn millions of pounds in his teenage years. The wealthy Englishman obtained his wealth from the possibilities you found on the internet. The young man found success in creating content by writing articles about cars but he always did so anonymously.

The editor indicated that the perception of those who made a living on the web was not well received in the mid-2000s. The entrepreneur recalled that stage of his life when describing that: “It was strange, but I liked the fact that that no one else knew what I was doing. It was like a second life I had online.”

Adnan Ebrahim’s first businesses

The millionaire remembers that his adolescence was marked by the internet because he spent his time in online communities and developed his entrepreneurial spirit in this medium. His first business was online marketing when he began selling the bracelets that were popular between the years of 2005 to 2006. He first offered his merchandise to his schoolmates but later managed to collect large profits for a boy his age.

Ebrahim remembers that Ebay products sold ten times more than in any physical store. That’s why he decided to auction them on that website, it generated hundreds of sales and He just had to go to the stores and buy as many bracelets as he could to resell them. He later wanted to do the same by selling iPods but fell into a scam and lost thousands of pounds.

The fall in his capital made him look for a business with less investment and he combined his passion for cars to start a car blog. The Englishman dedicated a large part of his free time to writing his articles. Ebrahim recalled his routine, describing: “I would come home from school every day, write some articles, post. The next day, I would see how they were doing, see the traffic… see how many cents I would make from AdSense clicks.”

The young man was ashamed of his position because he had a slight inferiority complex and because he thought he might attract ridicule from his classmates because they thought he was a geek. Even so, the profits of His site was worth thousands of dollars a month and he was offered to sell it when he was 18 years old.. It was at this moment that he revealed his activity to his parents because he needed their signatures to be able to complete the transaction procedures.

How Adnan Ebrahim became rich

The greatest boost to his capital came during his university years, when he formed the spiritual continuation of his previous blog under the name Car Throttle. At this stage he also managed to reveal his identity to his classmates during the second year of his degree. As they also began to appear its first millions in pounds of income, subscribers on YouTube and fans on Facebook during 2013 to 2014.

Ebrahim sold its website, along with its social networks, to Dennis Publishing in 2019. At that time he had 15 million followers and had more than 2,500 views on his videos. Experts pointed out that the value of its medium was found in its audience because it was mostly under 35 years of age and its reach was 14 times larger than its competitors.

Although the specific value of the sale was not disclosed, Forbes magazine added the Englishman to the list of the 30 most successful under 30 in the world. Since then, Ebrahim has developed as a startup investor and as CEO of MindLanda company that advocates for mental health.