1 . Parking in the CBD of any Australian city is expensive, hard to come by and often an unavoidable headache. But Rylan Kindness, a 16-year-old entrepreneur (企业家) from Brisbane, thinks he might have the answer to this problem.
It was after Rylan realized his parents were spending hours to try and find parking deals in the city that he came up with the idea for a centralized system. This system shows users the best price for parking in the area they want and offers users a daily deal with a discount .
Rylan now doubles as a high school student and the CEO of Parking Deals Australia, a role he took on four months ago. Parking Deals Australia isn't even Rylan's first business. When he was barely 11, Rylan came up with an idea to sell wholesale scooter parts online, purely because he just wanted some extra money. On the side, he's succeeding in other passions as well. However, he admits it hasn't always been smooth sailing.
“I've learned so many crazy things through trial and error. Every day I fail somewhere but I always try to get better. My biggest failure was when I first set up everything and thought it was what everyone else would like but it's a shock when I see people not enjoying what I’m doing. It makes me want to cry a little bit but then I polish the product and keep going.”he said.
While Rylan didn't want to say exactly how much his now-bustling company is worth, he did admit he's making a tidy profit.“I earn more in one day than I was earning for three months working in a cafe but I'm investing it all back into the business.... what I've learned is that if you're starting a business just to make money, you're definitely going to fail. I'm there to help millions of people and that's what really gets me going,”he said.
Rylan's goal with Parking Deals Australia is to take it countrywide and save millions of people millions of dollars.
1. According to the article, the centralized system can .| A．analyze users' parking habits | B．recommend the cheapest parking spaces |
| C．show the nearest parking lot | D．show available parking spaces |
| A．He got the idea for the parking system from his parents directly. |
| B．He left school to run his own company four months ago. |
| C．He displayed a talent for business when he was about 11. |
| D．He started his business purely for profits. |
| A．To assist people while making a profit. |
| B．To earn some extra money and make bigger investments. |
| C．To get improvement by working through failures. |
| D．To expand his influence on a national scale. |
| A．Hardworking and humor. | B．Bright and curious. |
| C．Generous and cautious. | D．Ambitious and insistent. |
