Ben Woldring (born February 6, 1985 in
Groningen
Groningen (; gos, Grunn or ) is the capital city and main municipality of Groningen province in the Netherlands. The ''capital of the north'', Groningen is the largest place as well as the economic and cultural centre of the northern part of t ...
) is a Dutch internet entrepreneur and
millionaire from
Usquert
Usquert is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch province of Groningen (province), Groningen. It is located in the municipality of Het Hogeland. It had a population of around 1,415 in January 2017.
History
Usquert was a separate municipality until 1 ...
who first rose to fame in the autumn of 1998 when, for a school assignment, he made a website where consumers could compare prices for
mobile phone
A mobile phone, cellular phone, cell phone, cellphone, handphone, hand phone or pocket phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell, or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link whil ...
services. As a result, he appeared on television programmes like
Kassa and the
Jeugdjournaal. In 1999, the website Bellen.com registered its 100,000th visitor; a year later, Woldring started the company Bencom B.V. and hired his mother as an employee.
In 2003, he won
Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award
and on November 14, 2006 he was named the best European Entrepreneur under 25 by
Business Week
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.
[
] He is also an ambassador for the
Beatrix Kinderkliniek in Groningen and the
Stichting voor het Gehandicapte Kind.
As of September 2009, he owns 9 price comparison websites, with the hotel comparison site LookingforBooking.com as his most recent project.
Woldring also wrote an autobiography, ''Ik Ben Internet-ondernemer!'', published in 2000, in which he describes his life, explains his work and also gives advice.
References
External links
Benwoldring.nl
{{DEFAULTSORT:Woldring, Ben
1985 births
Child businesspeople
Dutch businesspeople
Living people
People from Groningen (city)