“I was inspired by companies like Credit Karma. I was amazed how they got into this area and made credit reports completely free and created a business around it…”
Currently located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Jesse Willms is the owner of several vehicle history website, which provide free vehicle history information. Using his websites, you are able to check the history of a used car and see if it has been in an accident, if it is reliable, if it has had any recalls, what consumers think about it, and how they have reviewed it. It started out as a concept in 2015 but it has turned into a successful site with about four million people using it monthly to get free vehicle information.
“I was inspired by companies like Credit Karma. I was amazed how they got into this area and made credit reports completely free and created a business around it…”
Even from a young age, Jesse Willms was always interested in business. When he was 15, he began to read a lot of different books on business, focusing particularly on biographies and stock investing books, but would read basically every book he could get his hands on. Jesse Willms was really fascinated by investors like Warren Buffet and others that had amassed wealth. Since he had been reading so much, he started getting involved in business by selling books online by the time he was 16. He did not feel it was worth it, as it took quite a bit of effort to make a small amount of revenue. However, it taught him valuable lessons which led him to selling computer software online. Jesse Willms enjoyed it so much that he quit school at 17 to continue pursuing his passion of selling products online and being self-employed.
