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24-year-old paid his way through college with a side hustle—then sold most of it for $300,000: How he's using the money now

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Jared Ebersole started a side hustle selling do-it-yourself electric skateboard kits in college.

He used its profits to pay for school, he says: between $4,000 and $6,000 per semester out of pocket, after accounting for multiple scholarships.

Ebersoles: "Find what you love, and you're going to work so hard for that".

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