When you arrive in Alaska, you can’t help but think about how big the world is, how magnificent nature is, and how you fit into it.
Tyler Arnold grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, and at age 16, a teacher gave him a copy of Tom Friedman’s book, The World Is Flat .
So, Tyler did what comes naturally to people with an “Alaska Perspective,” I suppose…
He started a company…at age 16.
But, this company sells services to agencies in New York and San Francisco and manages computer programmers in Pakistan and Romania.
His business took off as he was “managing it from a Blackberry” during 10th grade and, now, at age 19, he spends 8 months a year outside of Alaska (not because of the weather), because he’s either seeing clients or managing his teams around the world.
His monthly revenues would make most of you pretty happy.
There’s been a lot of talk recently about creating jobs and innovation. IF we had more people like Tyler, who understood how to create value in a new, globalized world, we wouldn’t be having that discussion.
Just an inspiring guy. Meet Tyler in this video or check out his website: www.tylersystems.com
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