12-Year-Old Built Mugglenet
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A story about Emerson Sparks, who at age 12 built Mugglenet, the world's largest Harry Potter fan site, and later published a best-selling book.
"When he was 12 years old, he built a website called Mugglenet. It was the number one Harry Potter fan site in the world with tons of traffic. At that time Harry Potter was super famous, and in between the books people wanted a place to discuss, post theories, post fan fiction, and debate.
When he was 18, he published a best-selling book called 'Harry Potter Should Have Died: Controversial Views from the Number 1 Fan Site.' The premise was basically 'Harry survived but should he have?' Since he ran the world's biggest fan site for Harry Potter, he shared some of the controversial viewpoints people had about Harry Potter.
I met him when he was around 22, and he had moved on to building something called Dose Media. He was incredibly smart - if he had applied himself to other areas, he would have done some absolutely amazing things that everybody would know his name for."
Shaan Puri
Host of MFM
Shaan Puri is the Chairman and Co-Founder of The Milk Road. He previously worked at Twitch as a Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming, and Emerging Markets. He also attended Duke University.