Adjustments required in the entrepreneur’s personal life may be the most challenging of all. In addition to her mother, AshBo may hire friends at times. It can feel strange to be your friend's boss. Hiring friends means you may also end up firing a friend. Such a situation is not easy for anyone, and especially for a young person. Another type of personal adjustment occurs when an entrepreneur becomes famous, such as Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook. Mark was only nineteen when he launched Facebook from his college dormitory room. Since then, a movie called The Social Network has been made about Mark’s life and the beginning of Facebook. It may inspire some young people to create their own online businesses.
Being a rich, young Internet entrepreneur sounds wonderful. However, it may be extremely challenging to handle the financial, academic, and personal changes that great success brings. It will be interesting to see what will happen to AshBo and Mark in the future. Will they feel good about their life choices, or will they wish that they had experienced their younger years in a different way?
* entrepreneur: a person who starts a business and often takes risks in order to become successful.