Couldn’t study due to mental weakness, then focused on business, started earning lakhs of rupees every hour.
New Delhi. Anyone can achieve success even in the face of difficulties if they have the passion to do something. of 14-year-old Tucker Findlay. Five years ago, Tucker Findlay was failing school. He was suffering from learning disability and neurological problem. Due to which he could not read, write or count beyond 10. Now he is earning more than 6 figures ie selling memorabilia online is a similar story.
Tucker’s journey began with a golf ball when he was 9 years old. He was playing with friends near his home in Sterling, Virginia, where water flows downstream from 2 golf courses. “I found golf balls everywhere,” Tucker tells PEOPLE. Collected them, cleaned them and then listed them for sale on Facebook Marketplace.
They sold out quickly – 2,000 in three days and Tucker, now 14, used his profits to buy more. He then hired friends to find and clean golf balls for 5 cents a ball, and soon bought a kayak to find more balls. He bought a few thousand golf balls at a local yard sale for $50 or $100. “He sold $5,000 worth of golf balls.”
Learned to count using a golf ball.
Not only was Tucker becoming an entrepreneur, but he was also learning math by counting golf balls and selling them by weight. A fan of television shows like Antiques Roadshow and American Pickers, Findlay, with the help of his parents, invested his profits in antiques and vintage toys.
The father quit his job because of his son.
Findlay’s father, Ryan, a former COO of a company, quit his job when his son struggled with traditional learning and needed to be homeschooled. A few months and thousands of golf balls later, Tucker came across videos on YouTube of people he found at garage sales on eBay.
Findlay said, ‘Dad, I want to start an eBay store.’ So his father said what are you saying? He convinced his parents to help him open an online store and found that vintage items were selling fast and making huge profits — first an army jacket, then a brass bell. Ryan says he had items that were selling for $10 at the flea market. He would put them online for $100 and they would sell out in 5 minutes.
This budding entrepreneur knows the art of selling stuff. He once bought a BMX bike frame with wheels and other parts missing for just $6 and then sold the disassembled bike parts for $500 within 24 hours. Findlay sold a Barbie doll for $1,000 and 600 sports cards for $20,000.
Tags: business ideas, earn money
First Publication: November 17, 2024, 18:37 IST
#Couldnt #study #due #mental #weakness #focused #business #started #earning #lakhs #rupees #hour