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Ashley Power’s mother bought a computer for her when she was eight. When she was thirteen, she was surfing the Internet regularly, but she couldn’t find anywhere for teenagers to meet and talk. And one day she thought, “If I had my own website, I’d make it a really interesting site for teenagers.”

So, when Ashley was sixteen, she launched her own website, called GooseHead. She had no idea how big a success it would be, but three years later, the site was the most successful teen site in the USA! It was getting 100,000 hits every day, and Ashley had about 30 employees.

After a few years, the website closed down. Then Ashley, who lives in Los Angeles, was asked to write a book called “The GooseHead to life.” The book is about how to design a website and start a business. It begins with a section called “All About Ashley”, where Ashley tells readers what it’s like to be the boss of a company when you are only sixteen – not always easy! “I was so happy. But it was crazy in a lot of ways. I got very stressed. I mean, I was only sixteen – I didn’t even have a car! If you were sixteen and you had your own company, you’d be stressed, too!” In her book, Ashley talks about the problems that teenagers have today, and about the importance of friendship, but also about being independent. “Learn to love your friends but not rely on them. I did that by creating GooseHead on my own.”

Ashley says that “The GooseHead Guide to Life” is not a book of teenage advice. “It isn’t a book that’s going to tell you what to do. I hope you can work that out for yourself,” she says. “I just want to provide a little inspiration to teenagers. Maybe after reading my story, you will launch your own website! But perhaps you have got a better idea? Well, if I were you, I’d just do it, whatever it is. Maybe it won’t work – but maybe it will!”