JUSTIN SUN, SUCCESSFUL YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR.
Today I want to write a story of Inspiration for Young Leaders who are successful as Young Entrepreneurs. This character achieved success at a very young age. The story of this character will be an inspiration for all of us in the Entrepreneurial World. Some people may think that success is when they are able to live financially independently, some think that success is when they already have a job or have a successful entrepreneur. But actually success is not easy, even full of sweat and many challenges. Not everyone achieves success in entrepreneurship, let alone can succeed in entrepreneurship at a very young age, of course that is very great, like the story of the world's young leader Justin Sun who achieved success at a very young age. Extraordinary. Justin Sun received the award of being selected as one of the young entrepreneurs in Forbes magazine "30 Under 30 Asia", as one of the figures from 30 business and industry figures, young influential innovators in the world aged under 30 years in the field of Consumer Technology 2017. May the success of this figure be an inspiration to all of us.
Justin Sun is a young man who was born on July 30, 1990 in Xining City, Qinghai Province, China. He is a technology entrepreneur, founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON and CEO of BitTorrent, currently known as Rainberry, Inc. Justin Sun earned the title as a successful young entrepreneur because of the growing crypto and blockchain industry today. Thanks to his work in building and growing the name TRON, a cryptocurrency that is in the ten largest market capitalization according to Coinmarketcap, Justin Sun was included in Forbes magazine's Under 30 Asia and China list from 2015 to 2017.
EDUCATION HISTORY
In 2011, Justin Sun obtained a Bachelor's Degree in History from Peking University, and in 2013 He obtained a Master's Degree in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Then he continued his education at Hupan University in China, which is a special university for entrepreneurs founded by Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba Group. Justin Sun is the first millennial generation to graduate from this University in 2018. Justin Sun is Jack Ma's protege. At the age of 26 years, Justin Sun was directly selected by Jack Ma to study at Hupan University. This university has a stricter acceptance rate, as it is a dedicated university for employers. Justin once prepared a thesis entitled “The Birth of a Decentralized Internet” which focused on the blockchain industry.
HISTORY OF BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Justin Sun heard about Bitcoin for the first time in 2012. He then invested his entire year's college tuition into buying Bitcoin. It was when the price of Bitcoin rose that Sun cashed in his money to set up Peiwo.
Justin Sun's first job was as Chief Representative and Advisor for the Technology company, Ripple Labs. Thanks to Justin Sun Ripple successfully completed the first round of funding. At that time Ripple managed to raise funds up to US $ 30 million. The fund helped Ripple become the second largest blockchain system in the world today. Justin Sun worked at the company for two years, and in January 2016 left the job. During his time at Ripple Labs, he founded the Social Media app “Voice Live Streaming”, Social Media called Call me or Peiwo. It became the biggest Voice Live Streaming app in China. This application is very widely used and liked by teenagers there, there are about more than 10 million people using the application.
In 2017, Justin Sun took his first step towards a decentralized internet by establishing a Cryptocurrency Blockchain company, TRON FOUNDATION with the TRX token. He also serves as the Company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In fact, he created the TRON protocol. It is one of the largest systems related to blockchain technology. TRON is a decentralized application platform that rivals Ethereum. TRON is very popular due to its ability to accept various types of cryptocurrencies. TRON makes global payments easier, and companies around the world are interested in Justin Sun's work. In just under a year, Justin Sun built a TRON worth $3.5 billion. With this success, Justin Sun became a well-known figure in the e-commerce world and made some people call Justin Sun the new "Jack Ma". Justin Sun was listed in Forbes ASIA Magazine as a young entrepreneur under 30 years old, continuously in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
In 2018 Justin Sun also acquired peer-to-peer file sharing service BitTorrent for around $126 Million. As of 2018, Justin Sun's net worth is estimated at over $200 Million.
And in February 2020, Justin Sun through Tron bought Steemit.com and Steemit, Inc from Ned Scott. Steemit is a Social Media and Blogging site that is directly connected to the Steem Blockchain. The Steem blockchain generates STEEM and Steem Dollars.
Justin Sun has also recently made major investments in two major cryptocurrency platforms, Bitcoin and Ethereum. He bought 4145 BTC for $152 million and 54,153 ETH for $135 million.
Justin Sun also won the auction by placing the highest bid of $4.567 million. He had the opportunity to have lunch with Warren Buffet, along with 7 other people from the crypto industry invited by Warren Buffet in January 2020. He is Warren Buffet's venerable as a successful World Class entrepreneur. Warren Buffett is the owner, managing director and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway. In 2012, Time magazine listed Buffett as one of the most influential people in the world. He is the third richest person in the world in 2015 according to Forbes. Because of Warren Buffett's history of success from when he was young, Justin Sun greatly admired Warren Buffett and became the motivation for him to achieve success in entrepreneurship today.
Justin Sun has achieved tremendous success as a Young entrepreneur in the Crypto and Blockchain industry. Who doesn't want to be like Justin Sun, handsome, young, rich, famous and successful. As a blessing that many people covet. This is a summary from various sources that I took as my writing about the story of this Young World Leader, who achieved success at a very young age. Hopefully this will be an inspiration and motivation for all of us.
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This is an inspirational story from a successful young leader as a young entrepreneur in the field of cryptocurrency and blockchain entrepreneurship. Hopefully useful for all of you. I thank all Steemit friends who want to visit and encourage me and the Steem Entrepreneur Community.