US teen built $808,000 business at 19
In Clifton Park, New York, a 19-year-old entrepreneur named Mike Satterlee has built a 3D-printing business named CruiseCup, which generated a staggering $808,000 in gross revenue in 2025. Starting with just around $500, Satterlee invested in his first 3D printer, which he purchased using savings from birthdays, Christmas, and earlier ventures.
Initially, he experimented with various products before launching Solefully in 2023, focusing on shoe charms and accessories for Crocs. By June 2023, Solefully had generated roughly $250,000 in sales, enabling Satterlee to expand his operations to a warehouse in Clifton Park. In 2025, Satterlee founded CruiseCup, producing distinctive drink accessories like a hard-shell can cooler designed to hold two 12-ounce cans.
The product's innovative design, allowing users to load cans from either top or bottom, proved to be a game-changer. After Satterlee shared a demonstration on Instagram in August 2025, the post went viral, resulting in an overwhelming surge of orders. At the time, his 60 printers faced a backlog of orders, with CruiseCup generating around $100,000 in revenue alone in August.
Satterlee continues to run CruiseCup full-time with one other employee, reinvesting most of the profits back into the company to fuel further expansion.
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