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A high school freshman from Holland is making a name for himself in the cyber world.

14-year-old Zachary Collins sold his second Web site in less than a  year to a company in California.  Zachary developed yazzem.com in his own personal think tank, which happens to be the basement of his parent’s home. The teenage entrepreneur says the Web site lets visitors share their thoughts about anything by sharing topics.  The catch is they can only write out their thoughts in 200 characters or less.

 

Teens in Tech paid $15,000 for it.

 

“At first I did think it was a joke,” said Zachary.

 

Zachary only became interested in computers three years ago.  His father says he started with an old, used laptop.  Zachary built his first Web site in two days.  In June, he sold the Twitter application search engine for $2,000. 

 

“It’s pretty amazing just to be able to connect with people from California and meet people like the founders of Twitter,” Zachary said.

 

Profits soared for yazzem.com, and like any responsible businessman, Zachary split the profits with his team and his co-founder, Dustin Snider from New York.  The two met each other online.

 

“He’s wanted to be a millionaire since he was at least eight.  It may have been younger, but he knew he was going to do something to be a millionaire,” says Zachary’s mother, Jennifer.

 

Zachary says another goal of his is to someday meet Bill Gates.

 

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