Twenty years ago, kids earned money delivering newspapers; today, they're starting software companies and licensing videogames over the Net. Using a simple Web-authoring application called Cocoa, 13-year-old Gregory Miller of San Carlos, California, created Wecman's Big Adventure, a simple chutes-and-ladders contest available from his company, Tenadar Software.
The young CEO squirms when asked how much Tenadar has made so far but claims he's "very happy" with sales. "We sold a hundred games at Macworld and had over a thousand downloads on AOL," he says. At US$10 a game, that sure trumps mowing lawns.
This article originally appeared in the February issue of Wired magazine.
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