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b'Houston Gunn is a 16-year-old-entrepreneur, author, real estate investor and musician who is on a mission to inspire other young people to take steps now to build successful futures. His first book, \\u201cSchooled for Success \\u2013 How I Plan to Graduate from High School a Millionaire,\\u201d shares his story.\\n\\nThe CEO he interviewed for a job shadow assignment during his freshman year of high school challenged him to write what became \\u201cSchooled for Success.\\u201d\\n\\nGunn even caught the attention of famed business mogul Donald Trump, who granted an interview via email that is shared in the book.\\n\\nTeachers also motivated Houston, though not in ways they likely expected. He set the goal of earning $1 million by high school graduation on his first day as a freshman. At the freshman assembly, the leadership teacher\\u2019s announcement they could earn $1 million in their lifetimes they got good grades, went to college and got good jobs.\\n\\nHis classmates\\u2019 cheers and whooping confused Houston, who had done the math: $1 million over a 40-year career is $25,000 a year. He thought:\\xa0\\u201cWhy are the teachers and freshmen cheering and going wild? We the graduating class of 2015 should be booing and have got to learn more about money. We should be worth more than a million dollars over our lifetime!\\u201d\\n\\nWith entrepreneurial parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, Houston knows what he wants. He has figured out how to get it and encourages all young people as well as their parents not to shy away from asking for what they want.\\xa0\\n\\nHe is now living outside Nashville, TN, with his family. Houston loves playing everything from percussion to the guitar and bass, fiddle and mandolin as well as singing and songwriting. But he is still a teenager and\\xa0loves pizza, motorcycles, and blue Corvettes.'