aged 18. While Tamir and his co-founders were not initially seeking capital for Contra, it is expected that they will commence meetings in San Francisco with potential partners and VCs this month, where Tamir says he hopes to finally meet his co-founders in person. "I'm very excited to meet them," he says. With no background in how to create apps himself, Tamir says he's now focussing on learning how to code so that he doesn't have to outsource development to people he has hired overseas. To do this, he has a tutor visiting him to teach him.

"I want to rebuild Contra from the ground up," he says. Asked why he didn't go down the property route as his family have, he says that while he did work forhis great-uncle's company Meriton for a short period of time, he felt that tech was the way to go for him. "When I went to boarding school, I didn't really like it," he says. "That's where I found my passion in technology. It was a very good distraction." The secret to his past apps' successes? Using influential social media accounts to promote them. "There is this guy in St. Louis called Carlos," Tamir says.

Carlos, says Tamir, operates and runs several popular Instagram accounts including Best Vines (8.9 million followers) and "Sarcasm only" (11.8 million followers). Tamir says he asked Carlos to promote his gaming apps on these accounts and then paid him a flat fee once the money came rolling in. "Games are very good and you can