Call the Shots with Entrepreneur Cameron Johnson at LCCC’s Spitzer Conference Center
Start a business at age 9? Check. Make $50,000 a year by the age of 12? Check. Appear on Oprah’s “The Big Give”? Check.
Learn the secrets of success from Cameron Johnson, one of the most successful young entrepreneurs in the world. Johnson will speak at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 18 at Lorain County Community College’s Spitzer Conference Center in a lecture called “You Call the Shots.” A meet-and-greet will begin at 6 p.m. The event is part of the Meeting Great Minds series and is free and open to the public. To register, visit www.lorainccc.edu/entrepreneurweek.
In conjunction with Global Entrepreneurship Week, 24-year-old Johnson will discuss how to find success doing what you love. With many college graduates struggling to find work they enjoy, Johnson will give concrete examples of how to find success on your terms.
Johnson was 9 when he began his first business, printing and selling greeting cards, stationery and invitations on his home computer. He catapulted the success of that first venture into the stock market. By the age of 15, his Internet company had grown to daily sales of $15,000 per day. It was also while he was a freshman in high school that he became an Advisory Board Member to FutureKids, a Tokyo-based company, and Sega of America, who at the time built the Sega Dreamcast console. He consulted both companies for a number of years. In August 2000, he was approached by a best-selling Japanese author who asked if he could "ghostwrite" Johnson’s autobiography. He agreed and the book was an instant bestseller in Japan.
In 2007, Johnson’s book “You Call the Shots: Succeed Your Way - And Live the Life You Want - With the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship” hit bookstores in the United States. Today, Johnson spends his time doing speaking engagements around the world, teaching valuable lessons about how to harness your potential by exploring places you might not think to look.
Johnson’s visit is sponsored by LCCC and Entrepreneurial Learning Initiative (ELI).
November 5, 2009