美國高中生21歲前賺取250萬美元 一年內敗光

A web entrepreneur who had it all by the time he was 21 managed to blow his staggering $2.5million fortune in just 12 months.
美國互聯網企業家安德魯·費申在自己21歲時一度擁有高達250萬美元的鉅款，然而他卻在一年之內就將其揮霍一空。

Andrew Fashion dropped out of high school to live the high life - his monthly $100,000 pay packet seeing him buy a plush Los Angeles house and several top-of-the-range sports cars.
在賺得巨資後，安德魯·費申申請從高中輟學，開始過上了高檔奢侈的生活。他每月10萬美元的收入讓他得以在洛杉磯買下一棟豪宅，外加數量頂級跑車。

He played high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, jetted away on a whim to London, Florida and Hawaii, and bought all the latest gadgets going.
他去拉斯維加斯玩高賭注的撲克，一有興致就在倫敦、佛羅里達和夏威夷之間來回飛，購買各式各樣最新推出的產品。

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.
費申創業成功是通過建立網站，給網友提供各種工具來美化他們的MySpace頁面，但是這些網站在一年間突然失寵，而他的資金也已揮霍一空。

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.'
在宣告破產後，費申患上了抑鬱症，他承認：“我當時太年輕、太愚蠢。錢花花地來了，卻又如流水般走了，一大筆錢就這麼消失殆盡。”

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 plummeted to the engine's eighth page.
費申（真姓爲湯普森）通過精明的市場營銷策略建立起自己的事業，讓他的網站在Google搜索排行榜上獨佔鰲頭。但是2007年全面改版後，Google將其視爲一個全新的網頁，一夜之間失去了“信譽度”而迅速下滑至第8頁。

Now not so visible, visitors dwindled and the income stopped. But Fashion still had overheads to pay, and a $400,000 tax bill he had not counted on.
由於網站不再那麼顯眼，訪問量也就越來越少，最終連收入都沒有了。但是費申還要支付網站的管理費用，這還沒有算上40萬美元的納稅額。

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訴說了錢是如何敗光的：“我用現金買了第一輛車，然後又買了房子，花了8萬美元來翻修。到最後我一共買了7輛車，有幾輛是送給朋友的。朋友和我各撞壞了一輛車，而費用都是我出的。就這樣我失去了很大筆錢。”

Now, after what he described as a roller-coaster few years, he is firmly back on track and living in Littleton, Colorado.
如今，在經歷了“過山車”般的幾年生活後，費申堅決要讓自己回到正軌，他目前居住在科羅拉多州的利特爾頓。

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.
在銀行賬戶裏沒有任何資金的情況下，他設法籌集到15萬美元，通過網站廣告掙得一筆25萬美元的可觀收入。現在他又開始設計一家新的社交網站。

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.
他註冊了一家名爲'Fashion N Glamour Studios'的攝影公司。還準備寫本書，名叫《年少輕狂：我如何賺到和花掉250萬美元》，計劃在今年年底發售。

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.'
費申稱，這一回他不會再浪費自己的辛苦所得。他還說：“我會將掙來的錢投資到自己公司或者其他公司，而不會亂花錢去買玩具、跑車之類的了。”