Pete Cashmore, is accustomed to staying up late at night and rarely waking up until the evening. He does this to be able to stay awake throughout the night without being overcome by drowsiness. In 2005, Pete Cashmore created the website Mashable, which focuses on social media and technology news. He started it as a small blog, unaware that he was building a media empire worth millions, at the age of 19 while living in the same house with his parents in Scotland. Pete Cashmore's obsession with the internet and technology began at an early age of thirteen. His appendix surgery caused him to isolate himself from his friends, and it took him years to recover. The isolation led him to use computers, and he began learning everything he could about them gradually. He started with blogs, following as many bloggers as possible and reading thousands of articles they published daily. The stories of people who started their businesses from a garage or a small basement before becoming major c