Beau Jessup is a 19-year-old British girl, but this young girl is already a little successful "entrepreneur" with achievements: she has earned millions of dollars by offering Chinese babies English names.
As the US CNBC News Network report:
A 19-year-old British girl has amassed a fortune as founder and CEO of Special Name, a website designed to provide Chinese parents with culturally appropriate English names for their babies.
Beau Jessup was inspired to start the business in 2015, when she was still in high school. She has since named a total of 687,000 babies (and counting) and racked up estimated revenues of over £300,000 (around 2.7 million yuan).
This idea originated from a coincidence.
When Jessop and her father were traveling in China a few years ago, Ms. Wang, a business partner of her father, asked her for help to provide an English name for her 3-year-old daughter.
"I was honored and surprised," Jessup said. "It seemed like a really important thing to do.”
In order to give that little girl a proper name, Jessup inquired Ms. Wang about her expectation placed on her daughter. After careful consideration, she named the little girl "Eliza" - Inspired by the female protagonist’s name of the movie “My Fair Lady”.
"Eliza" in “My Fair Lady”
"She was happy with it and took the name suggestion straight away," Jessup said.
"It occurred to me that if Mrs Wang needed this service, then maybe other parents would as well."
Such an occasional opportunity helped Jessup smell out a business opportunity.
Jessup learned that Chinese people are usually very casual in taking English names, often given by their English teachers.
Traditionally, those names would be self-assigned or given by teachers. But, due to language barriers, the ability to research them can be limited, often resulting in unfortunate and sometimes comical selections, Jessup noted, highlighting examples like “Rolex Wang” and “Gandalf Wu”. 
