A 24-year-old is living a luxurious lifestyle of villas, supercars and partying in the Hollywood Hills after launching an Instagram marketing agency that is about to turnover £300,000.
Adam Jordan, an entrepreneur from Merseyside, Liverpool, runs Social Kick - a business that shows companies how to maximise their social media accounts.
Adam started out with a fashion account on Instagram when the app first came out in 2010, becoming an 'influencer' to an army of online followers at just 17, Liverpool Echo reports.
After starting his company three years ago, Adam, who studied marketing at university in Liverpool, says he is about to turnover £300,000.
Being a social influencer has helped Adam live an incredible lifestyle, flying business class, driving supercars and getting invites to showbiz parties.
But there’s something that Adam enjoys even more than the flashy material items: freedom.
Adam told the Echo: "I believe money buys freedom, and freedom is the most valuable thing for me.
"Being able to wake up when I want without someone telling me I am going to be late, being able to get up and travel the world whenever is something I value more than materialistic objects.
"From driving supercars through the Arabian desert to partying in the Hollywood Hills, I've had the most incredible experiences all before I'm 25.”
He added: "If you want to talk about materialistic things its allowed me to drive around in a nice Mercedes and buy my dream Rolex."
Adam's Instagram account is filled with photos of him living the dream, from posing at private villas in Bali to cruising around Beverly Hills in a Rolls Royce.
His success stems from working long hours and starting out young. After running a successful Instagram account in his teens, he built enough of a reputation to start managing other people’s accounts. After this he launched Social Kick.
But Adam said that managing the followers and influence of a social media account is often misunderstood.
He added: "A misconception is usually 'so you post on Instagram for a living'. They don't see the back end of what I do, only the successes that I share on my Instagram, which I completely understand.”
"I don't expect everyone to know my day-to-day. While I'm talking to you now I am only running off two hours of sleep because of how much I've been working.
His day-to-day involves swapping a reliable 9-5 job for what he calls a 24-7 with no guarantees.
But all Adam's hard work is undoubtedly paying off, with the entrepreneur estimating that his business could be set to bring in close to £300,000 this year.
Speaking about how he started the business, Adam, said: "I started running a fashion blog on Instagram when it first came out, once I grew a following I started to sell advertisements on the page to brands and companies.
"Then I approached other pages asking to manage them as I could connect them with brands and ultimately give them an income. This is back when it was unheard of that brands would pay people to be put on social media accounts instead of traditional marketing.
"Once I'd done that, I approached the brands and pitched them what I could offer with my experience in the space and connections built from being an 'influencer'. Everything snowballed from there.
Now his sights are set on turning over millions, like other big influencers in the social media industry.
