Tom Anderson
Entrepreneur
Co-founder of MySpace who gave the world the first popular social network in 2003.
His hacking exploits prompted an FBI raid, but young Tom was spared because he was a minor.
He had approximately 100 million MySpace friends at the height of his popularity and sold his site to News Corporation for $580 million.
He was born in San Diego, California; he inherited his entrepreneurial spirit from his father.
His site was eventually eclipsed in popularity by Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook.