This 16-Year-Old Tech Lad's Company Is Turning Over £250,000-A-Year

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When I was 15 there wasn't much more to my life than wanking and playing PlayStation. But when I hit 16 I became a business-savvy tech genius and owned a global business. Course I fucking didn't. I was still wanking into socks and playing on the PlayStation.

So a massive shout out to this entrepreneurial teenage lad, who's managed to do something productive with his life by starting up a business that turned over £250,000 last year.

Josh Bell, a 16-year-old from Durham, taught himself coding, then built his website 'TRLA Hotels' and made contact with international companies. The idea to build the site came after he talked to a hotel owner while he was on a family holiday, according to The Mirror.

After finding out the massive amount of money big-name websites pick up from hotels, he decided there was a space in the market for a site that undercut them.

Now with more than 95,000 hotels around the world signed up to his service, the lad's business is getting bigger and bigger, reports Chronicle Live.

He said: "I taught myself how to code, I have always been quite technical and interested in IT. It is something that I really enjoy doing.

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"I talk to my mam and my step-dad about it, but I think quite a lot of it goes over their heads. They just let me get on with it.

"My younger brother Owen says he wants to help out and get paid for help but then when I ask him to do any work he changes his mind."

Sounds like a typical younger brother to be honest.

The lad's mum Linda says she is astounded by her son's business success, but she doesn't reckon he picked any of his computer skills from her.

She said: "If anything, the better he has got at IT over the years, the worse I have become because I can just rely on him to sort things. He gets his IT skills from his dad I think.

"He has organised holidays for us as a family and for family friends and even designed a website for the local community centre. I am very proud of him."

Good on the lad - I hope you have even more success in future mate.

Words by James Dawson

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Topics: tech

James Dawson

James Dawson is a Journalist at LADbible. He has contributed articles to LADbible’s ‘Knowing Me, Knowing EU’ series on the EU referendum, the 'Electoral Dysfunction' series on the 2017 general election, the ‘U OK M8?’ series tackling mental health amongst young men, and for its ‘Climate Change’ initiative in partnership with National Geographic.

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