DENVER, Pa. - Zachary Gosling, 18, will begin majoring in business at Drexel University next month but is already quite the businessman.
In first grade, he sold rocks from his driveway to unwitting classmates, claiming that he had spiffed them up in a "rock cleaner."
At age 8, he opened his first Scottrade account.
But his real coup came at 13, when he launched an online auction website from his bedroom in rural Denver, Pa., near Lancaster, supported by advertising and sponsorships rather than the fees charged by giant auction sites. The site got as many as five million page views per quarter just two years later. Had it not been sabotaged by hackers, its exponential rise might have given eBay pause.
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Author: Susan Snyder
