What she's done: As the lead developer and a founder of social networking site Pownce, 25-year old Culver has made it possible for people to quickly and easily swap large media (like files, movies, photos) without crashing their systems.
Now projects like Twitter's photo sharing site TwitPic and Facebook are taking a leaf out of Pownce's book.
How she got there: Culver started out as an art major at the University of Minnesota, but found her calling in a required programming class.
"Before that I didn't even know what programming was," she admits.
After graduating in 2006 with a Computer Science degree, she worked at iLoop Mobile and Instructables, two startups in the Bay Area, before eventually deciding to start her own thing. She built Pownce from scratch using a programming language called Python.
What to learn from her: You're never too young to start your own company. And particularly if you write software, your own web site can be relatively cheap.
"As a programmer the route to your own company is easy -- you build a site and get people excited about it," says Culver. Pownce hasn't needed venture capital -- Culver has relied on funds from family and friends.
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