The platform, which Schwartz describes as "Etsy for software products," currently brings in roughly $354,000 per month, according to a CNBC Make It estimate. "You want to really orient yourself around a real problem that needs to be solved," Schwartz, 25, tells Make It. During high school, he and Zoub built sneaker bots, or pieces of software that nabbed limited-edition shoes faster than people who manually clicked "buy now." The company clearly solved a problem, but the co-founders didn't find the work creatively fulfilling. It solved a safety problem: Zoub patrolled online forums where people sold software, and found them rife with scammers and rip-off artists.

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Persons: Steven Schwartz, Cameron Zoub, Schwartz, Jack Sharkey —, Mark Cuban, Cuban, Todd Wagner, Zoub, didn't, Whop, it's, Warren Buffett Organizations: Tesla, CNBC, Indiana University, Yahoo Locations: Whop