Young entrepreneurs who started companies when they were still teenagers have revealed how they skipped university and have already raked in $70,000 in a single month.
Brisbane friends Lachlan Delchau-Jones, 19, and Taylor Reilly, 21, thrived during the pandemic by setting up a business distributing craft and hobby products directly to customers stuck at home in lockdown.
Their business, started from scratch in April 2020, made $70,000 in just 30 days selling paint-by-numbers kits, novelty iPhone cases and puzzles, and they are hoping to surpass that record in the lead-up to Christmas.
Since then the entrepreneurs, who met through mutual friends with similar interests, have each started up a series of other businesses, ranging from ecommerce to helping charities fundraise on social media.
They have also revealed their tricks to succeeding with Daily Mail Australia - from having the right product to having the mentality for success.
Young entrepreneurs who started companies when they were still teenagers have revealed how they skipped university and have already raked in $70,000 in a single month. Brisbane friends Lachlan Delchau-Jones, 19, (left) and Taylor Reilly, 21, (right) thrived during the pandemic by starting a business distributing craft and hobby products directly to customers stuck at home in lockdown
Mr Delchau-Jones has decided to skip university altogether, already having experience starting up online sales businesses as a teenager.
'I have been in this line of work since I was in my mid-teens and after leaving high school in 2019 I made the decision university was never going to be for me and I should use my youth to my advantage and pursue my passion full-time,' he told Daily Mail Australia.
Mr Reilly, who turned 21 in October, was enrolled at Queensland University of Technology studying a dual degree in business and IT but has now 'permanently deferred' his studies to be a full-time entrepreneur rather than spending the next two years on campus.
'I spent two years on my degree and even though some will probably view it as a waste since I left, I view it now almost as the necessary step to figuring out what I wanted to pursue,' he told Daily Mail Ausrtalia.
'I have no ill will with universities, for the right people and the right degrees it is the logical pathway.
'However I felt that business at university was missing a practical element to it that I could get from other places in my life.'
Lachlan Delchau-Jones, 19, has decided to skip university altogether, already having experience started up online sales businesses as a teenager
Mr Reilly, who started making candles to sell at age seven before graduating to building websites in high school, last year set up Charity Exchange, a company which helps charities fundraise via social media.
He also has an influencer management
