Faculty İTİ

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Profession Information security

Group 693.18
Group 693.18

Subject English
Subject English

Topic About Erik Finman

Topic About Erik Finman

Teacher Gurbanova Gulay

Teacher Gurbanova Gulay

Student Teymurzade Mammad

Student Teymurzade Mammad
 Erik
ErikFinman
Finman
Gender Male
Gender Male
Hometown Post Falls
Hometown Post Falls
Address / Location San Francisco, California
Address / Location San Francisco, California
Nationality American
Nationality American
Alumni of / Alma Mater Early Bitcoin  investor at the age of 12 years old
Alumni of / Alma Mater Early Bitcoin  investor at the age of 12 years old
Occupation High School and College Dropou
Occupation High School and College Dropou
Age 19
Age 19
Language(s) English
Language(s) English
Employer CEO  of Botangle
Employer CEO  of Botangle
Siblings Scott ,Ross
Siblings Scott ,Ross
 Erik
ErikFinman
Finman
Early Life Botangle
Early Life Botangle

Coding Bitcoin
Coding Bitcoin

Personal High School

Personal Botangle High School College
Life Botangle Drop Out & Experience College
Life Part II Drop Out & Experience Fund
Part II Bet Fund
Bet
 Early Life
Early Life

Born and raised in the state of Idaho​​, he grew up in a small

town near the city of Post Falls ​ and has lived there for most of
his life. He lived in a town that had Llama​farms.
Erik has expressed that during his bring in the public education
system, he felt that most of the classes that he was in were
boring and uninteresting. He had experiences where the
teachers would often criticize their students in front of the class.
One teacher read aloud the grades of all the students in the class
in order to shame them.
The only good moment he remembers in his education is when
he had to attend a summer program and he says he had the best
teacher of his life. He was rewarded an A+ in advanced physics
when he had a C- the previous year.
 Coding
Coding

With the traumatic educational experience in

mind he decided to do something about it so he
began to learn how to code in order to fix the
problem of not having good teachers. His plan
was to launch an online educational platform.
 College Fund
College Fund

When he was 12 years old he had saved

up about $1,000 which was solely money
from his grandmother.  The money was a
gift to help with Erik's College Fund.
At the time, Bitcoin ​ was priced at $12.
Erik decided to ask his brother to teach
him how to invest the token using his
grandma's money.  another amount that was also saved up,
Bitcoin
Bitcoin
With his grandmother's money and
he purchased 100 bitcoins. He decided
to sell high and low according to the
market in the coming years and
reinvesting the bitcoins. 
When Bitcoin reached the value at
around $1,200, he started selling. He
used the money to finance his first
company which cost around $100,000.
 With the $100,000 Finman launched an online
education company called Botangle in early
2014 after taking the time to learn how to
code.The experiences in his schooling inspired
Botangle
him to launch his own platform to help Botangle
frustrated kids like himself who cannot find
better teachers in the education system that they
are part of.
After putting in the time to learn how to code
and learning to launch the website, he felt he
was beginning to gain traction.He asked his
parents if he could drop out of school in
order to focus full-time on the company and
they agreed, and he was essentially
homeschooled. His parents also agreed as
long as he would agree to go to college if he
High School Drop Out & Bet does not make $1 Mill by the time he's 18.  
High School Drop Out & Bet
Erik also used the funds to move the
company to Silicon Valley ​where he met and
became friends with Reddit ​ co
founder, Alexis Ohanian ​. He also traveled to
many places around the world. 
 Botangle Part II
Botangle Part II

By the time he was 15 years old and living in Silicon

Valley, he was busy looking for investors for his
educational startup. He felt that no one in the valley
was taking him seriously. He he meetings with high
class people and known investors who considered him
to young. He recalls a time when an Uber ​ high up
executive ignored his pitched and discouraged him by
saying that he would never win the bet with his
parents. 
Eventually he found a buyer who offered him $100,000
or 300 bitcoin for the company. He chose the 300
bitcoin.
 Experience
Experience

He worked for a company called Teraviks

Robotics where he he was the Managing
Director. He also did the similar kind of job for
Sprayable Energy.
In London, he was the Global Communities
Manager for Smartup.
At Discovery Technology, he is a Robotics
Mentor and Marketing consultant for Middle
School schoolers. ​
He’s currently working on a project with NASA ​
to launch a mini satellite into space with the
recordings of regular folks, tech leaders and top
artists. The launch is expected to take place in
November of 2017.
 Personal Life
Personal Life

Erik lives in San Francisco​where he likes to spend time with his friends.
By the age of 18, he became a millionaire through owning Bitcoin​, therefore
winning the bet he had with his parents.
Although Erik did not graduate from high school and does not plan to attend
college, the rest of his family has degrees like his brother Scott who went
to Johns Hopkins ​ at 16 and now has an enterprise software company, while his
other brother Ross went to Carnegie Melon ​ at 16 for robotics and is now
pursuing his Ph.D. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
He has traveled to London, Dubai, Australia, and many other destinations around
the world.
He is a fan of Elon Musk
In school his GPA was a 2.1.