Meet the schoolboy already making more than his parents - raking in £2k-a-month selling Fortnite-themed art.
Savvy Shakir Hussain, 15, already has his own design agency based around the popular video game.
He creates artwork and customers pay into a PayPal account set up in dad Amjad's name.
His proud parents have praised his entrepreneurial spirit - and say he's always had a passion for cash.
Shakir, from Birmingham, fits in the graphic work around his schooling and has not spent much of the money.
He said: “It’s amazing that I’m making so much money.
"I love playing Fortnite and it’s awesome that this hobby has given me a business as well as lots of fun.
"I love seeing the money come in and piling up in my savings.”
Charity worker Amjad, 38, said: "We're incredibly proud of him.
"He's always had a passion for making money and been good at it. He's helped me with charity fundraising since he was very young.
"I certainly wasn't earning that at his age and I still don't - he's earned more in a day than I do in a week."
Shakir, who lives with Amjad, mum Rifat Bibi, a nursery worker, and his younger sister, created Fortnite-themed graphics on an old computer and started selling on freeance platform Fiverr when he was 14.
He made a couple of pounds a piece.
The youngster then set up his own agency, Akito Media, when he was given his first iPhone for his 15th birthday, in November.
The cash started rolling in when he began taking commissions and paying other artists to create the Fortnite pieces for him, via a platform called Discord.
Shakir made over £2,000 in January and February, and has nearly made £2,000 this month (22/3).
The lad has no immediate plans for his money and puts it all into his savings account.
Amjad said: "I get a message every time he's payed.
"He used to get a message here and there, earning a couple of pounds, then after we got him the iPhone it went crazy.
"Suddenly I was getting messages all the time, and the figures went up.
"The biggest single sale so far is £280.
"He just has the mindset for making money but he's not bothered about spending it: I'm proud of him for earning it and for saving up."
Savvy Shakir Hussain, 15, already has his own design agency based around the popular video game.
He creates artwork and customers pay into a PayPal account set up in dad Amjad's name.
His proud parents have praised his entrepreneurial spirit - and say he's always had a passion for cash.
Shakir, from Birmingham, fits in the graphic work around his schooling and has not spent much of the money.
He said: “It’s amazing that I’m making so much money.
"I love playing Fortnite and it’s awesome that this hobby has given me a business as well as lots of fun.
"I love seeing the money come in and piling up in my savings.”
Charity worker Amjad, 38, said: "We're incredibly proud of him.
"He's always had a passion for making money and been good at it. He's helped me with charity fundraising since he was very young.
"I certainly wasn't earning that at his age and I still don't - he's earned more in a day than I do in a week."
Shakir, who lives with Amjad, mum Rifat Bibi, a nursery worker, and his younger sister, created Fortnite-themed graphics on an old computer and started selling on freeance platform Fiverr when he was 14.
He made a couple of pounds a piece.
The youngster then set up his own agency, Akito Media, when he was given his first iPhone for his 15th birthday, in November.
The cash started rolling in when he began taking commissions and paying other artists to create the Fortnite pieces for him, via a platform called Discord.
Shakir made over £2,000 in January and February, and has nearly made £2,000 this month (22/3).
The lad has no immediate plans for his money and puts it all into his savings account.
Amjad said: "I get a message every time he's payed.
"He used to get a message here and there, earning a couple of pounds, then after we got him the iPhone it went crazy.
"Suddenly I was getting messages all the time, and the figures went up.
"The biggest single sale so far is £280.
"He just has the mindset for making money but he's not bothered about spending it: I'm proud of him for earning it and for saving up."
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00:00 My name is Shaukat Hussain and I run and own a graphic designer and video editing agency.
00:06 Back when I was about 12/13, I used to do some graphic designing on my PC.
00:12 That's when I first got my PC.
00:15 I ran a server with a bunch of graphic designers and video editors.
00:21 I had a couple thousand members.
00:23 Then it got nuked, then I made a new one, then there were a couple thousand members.
00:27 Then I made a community from there. I met a bunch of different graphic designers and video editors.
00:32 I started a channel for that server and community.
00:37 Then from there, I had the idea of starting an agency where I have a team and we provide video editing and graphic design for a bunch of top creators and gamers.
00:53 That's where I thought of the name Akito Media. I made the logo, Akito logo, in pixel.e.
01:02 From there, I fully started it around November to December time.
01:09 I wasn't really into it that much for money. I was just doing it for the fun of it.
01:14 But then later on, I thought I could use this and make a lot of money from it.
01:19 Now I started my agency and I make near enough to 2k a month.
01:25 If all goes well, then I'd like to try this and do this full time.
01:31 But at the same time, I'd like to try out other things while running this, like other businesses and ideas.
01:38 What you should do is build a community.
01:42 Start off, even if you're bad or don't know what you're doing, watch tutorials.
01:45 There's YouTube, there's free tutorials everywhere, there's free resources everywhere.
01:49 It's all online, there's free resources.
01:52 You can do it from your tablet, phone, any network device.
01:57 Start practicing, learning, build a community, build a reputation, build your social media reputation.
02:04 That's a good thing to do.
02:06 Build up your reviews, your clients.
02:08 You can start small.
02:09 You can start, even if you're not that good, you can start free, you can start cheap.
02:15 Then you can build up your prices.
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