美国高中生21岁前赚取250万美元一年内败光

2012-02-10 00:00:00来源：沪江英语网

　　A web entrepreneurwho had it all by the time he was 21 managed to blow his staggering$2.5million fortune in just 12 months.

　　美国互联网企业家安德鲁·费申在自己21岁时一度拥有高达250万美元的巨款，然而他却在一年之内就将其挥霍一空。

　　　Andrew Fashion dropped out of high school to live the high life - his monthly $100,000 pay packet seeing him buy a plushLos Angeles house and several top-of-the-range sports cars.

　　在赚得巨资后，安德鲁·费申申请从高中辍学，开始过上了高档奢侈的生活。他每月10万美元的收入让他得以在洛杉矶买下一栋豪宅，外加数量顶级跑车。

　　He played high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, jetted away on a whim to London, Florida and Hawaii, and bought all the latest gadgetsgoing.

　　他去拉斯维加斯玩高赌注的扑克，一有兴致就在伦敦、佛罗里达和夏威夷之间来回飞，购买各式各样最新推出的产品。

　　But within just one year his websites, which gave users the tools to 'design' their MySpace pages, fell out of favour and the cash dried up.

　　费申创业成功是通过建立网站，给网友提供各种工具来美化他们的MySpace页面，但是这些网站在一年间突然失宠，而他的资金也已挥霍一空。

　　Bankrupt and suffering from depression, he admitted: 'I was young and stupid. The money was coming in so strongly, but it went out just as fast. A lot of the money just disappeared.'

　　在宣告破产后，费申患上了抑郁症，他承认：“我当时太年轻、太愚蠢。钱花花地来了，却又如流水般走了，一大笔钱就这么消失殆尽。”

　　Fashion, whose real surname is Thompson, built his business through months of shrewd marketing which saw his sites topping Google's search rankings. But a radical 2007 overhaul of the website meant Google believed it was a brand new page. It lost its Google 'reputation' overnight and plummetedto the engine's eighth page.

　　费申（真姓为汤普森）通过精明的市场营销策略建立起自己的事业，让他的网站在Google搜索排行榜上独占鳌头。但是2007年全面改版后，Google将其视为一个全新的网页，一夜之间失去了“信誉度”而迅速下滑至第8页。

　　Now not so visible, visitors dwindledand the income stopped. But Fashion still had overheads to pay, and a $400,000 tax bill he had not counted on.

　　由于网站不再那么显眼，访问量也就越来越少，最终连收入都没有了。但是费申还要支付网站的管理费用，这还没有算上40万美元的纳税额。

　　He told Business Insider how it all went wrong: 'I bought my first car, in cash. I bought my house and had $80,000 dollars of renovations done to it. I ended up buying seven cars total, a few for my friends. One of my friends wrecked a car; I wrecked a car. I paid for that out of my pocket. A lot of my money just disappeared.'

　　他向Business Insider诉说了钱是如何败光的：“我用现金买了第一辆车，然后又买了房子，花了8万美元来翻修。到最后我一共买了7辆车，有几辆是送给朋友的。朋友和我各撞坏了一辆车，而费用都是我出的。就这样我失去了很大笔钱。”

　　Now, after what he described as a roller-coaster few years, he is firmly back on track and living in Littleton, Colorado.

　　如今，在经历了“过山车”般的几年生活后，费申坚决要让自己回到正轨，他目前居住在科罗拉多州的利特尔顿。

　　He managed to raise $150,000 without any money in the bank, made a cool $250,000 from internet advertising and is now launching a model social networking website.

　　在银行账户里没有任何资金的情况下，他设法筹集到15万美元，通过网站广告挣得一笔25万美元的可观收入。现在他又开始设计一家新的社交网站。

　　He oversees a photography company called 'Fashion N Glamour Studios' and a book called 'Young and Stupid: How I Made And Lost $2.5million' is also in the pipeline, with a release date scheduled for the end of this year.

　　他注册了一家名为'Fashion N Glamour Studios'的摄影公司。还准备写本书，名叫《年少轻狂：我如何赚到和花掉250万美元》，计划在今年年底发售。

　　And this time, he insists, he will not be so quick to waste his hard-earned cash. He added: 'Instead of blowing money on toys and cars, I am going to invest it back into the company or another company.'

　　费申称，这一回他不会再浪费自己的辛苦所得。他还说：“我会将挣来的钱投资到自己公司或者其他公司，而不会乱花钱去买玩具、跑车之类的了。”

　　创业容易守业难啊！换做是你，在凭借自己能力赚到第一桶金之后，你会怎样用这笔钱呢？好好思考一下吧！

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