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Road to a billion dollars. Or so I thought.

     Many young people with the help of the advancement in technology allowing an increase of information through Google, YouTube, Reddit and a variety of other online forums have believed they could be the next Jeff Bezos. At one point I thought the same. Who wouldn't want to have so much money in their account they couldn't count it? It seemed like a great idea to start a business, work from home, and spend as much time I could doing the things I loved to do rather than going to a 9-5 job working for someone I didn't like and not getting paid enough to buy more than some ramen noodles. I then stumbled across a platform called Shopify. Shopify allowed you to do something called drop shipping which was a process that allowed you to set up an online shop, sell things you didn't own, and you didn't actually have to have any of the inventory in your possession. It seemed like the perfect platform to start building my empire. Even though I had no idea what to actually s