Middle School Website Business

Billy McFarland shares how he started his entrepreneurial journey by building and selling websites in middle school.

"I started doing super basic HTML CSS in 5th-6th grade, about 21-22 years ago. It was pretty much the wild wild west days of the internet. I started a couple of web hosting companies and basic social networks.

I created a content network called '24 Scene' because I loved the TV show 24. This was before streaming, so it was hard to get actual media of the shows. I was taking the show that aired and clipping it up, and ended up doing it for half a dozen TV shows.

I had this business partner at the time who was in his mid-thirties in Michigan who I never met. He orchestrated the sale of 24 Scene to a company called Buddy TV out of Seattle when I was 16. He paid me out on Western Union every two weeks for the remainder of my high school. It was tens of thousands of dollars, which was wild for me at the time."