Ben Pasternak Australian Whiz Kid

Unlike many teenagers, Ben Pasternak has already created many successful mobile games and a marketplace application. In fact, the 17-year-old has already started building a home in Sydney, Australia, with his money from his start-ups.

In his early teens, Pasternak started with YouTube making videos and creating mobile games like Impossible Dial and Impossible Rush. The high schooler has dropped out of school to pursue his passion and is now the founder and CEO of his own company – Flogg.

The teenager has already secured millions of dollars from major venture firms like Binary Capital and Greylock for seed-stage funding. He has even been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Nightline, and Teen Vogue, to mention a few media outlets.

At 16, Pasternak decide to move to New York city to pursue his dreams. Now he has his own apartment in Manhattan and a worldwide app that allows teenagers to buy and sell items from friends with just a swipe of the hand.

The masculine name Ben is usually used as the short form of names like Benjamin, Benedict, Bennett, Bengt, Benoit, Ebenezer, and Benvolio, among others. The name is also a given name in its own right. The name has many origins and in Arabic or Hebrew it means “son of” or “son of my right hand”.

There are many notable people with the name, from Ben Affleck the American screenwriter and actor to Ben Daley the Australian Rugby League player. There are even some fictional characters with the name, like Ben Skywalker from Star Wars.