October 30, 2005
Student's Homework Site Nets him $1.25 Million
This kid makes a site for a high school homework class project. Now he's a millionaire. He just learned PHP and MySQL just to create this site too. Insane.
Adil Lalani was still in high school when he conceived the idea for SurfYourWork.com, a free, web-based school management system that lets teachers and administrators post assignments and other documents online for students and parents to view and download. Now, little more than a year later, a New York-based educational software provider has purchased the product, prompting schools across the country to take a serious look at this one-time classroom project--while reportedly making Lalani, 19, a millionaire in the process.
