Not many freshmen at Emory drive around in brand new BMW M3s.

Even fewer drive around in M3s purchased with profits from their own multimillion-dollar companies.

Nineteen-year-old Sean Belnick, a College freshman, is one of those few. In August 2001, Belnick founded www.BizChair.com, a company which imports office chairs from China and resells them in America.

The five-year-old company grossed $15 million in sales last year, and although Belnick spends a lot of time studying - he's pursuing a business degree - he still dedicates about an hour a day to improving his business.

Belnick began honing his entrepreneurial skills in middle school.

According to his stepfather and business partner, Gary Glazer, Belnick was pulling in about a thousand dollars a month reselling Pokemon cards on Ebay.

As he got older, he began creating and developing simple informational Web sites for his stepfather's and uncle's clients for a few hundred dollars each.

The summer before ninth grade, Belnick had an idea.

He combined his knowledge and love for Web design with his stepfather's knowledge of the office chair industry to create a Web site that sold office chairs.

He launched the Web site in August 2001, and a few days later the company made its first sale.

Eventually, BizChair needed someone to answer the phones full time, and Belnick and Glazer hired its first staff - two adult employees - in January 2002.

"It pretty much just grew from there all the way to the point where we now have 40 employees and a 40,000 sq. ft. warehouse." Belnick said.

Belnick's roommate Daniel Mandel, who is also an account executive for the Wheel, said Belnick is very humble about the business he owns.

"I think a lot of people have found out about his business more from me or other guys around the hall who are just in awe of what he's done," Mandel said.

Belnick's customers include Emory and the Pentagon.

Sitting in Coca-Cola Commons in the Dobbs University Center, Belnick tapped the side of the chair he was sitting in.

"We sell chairs just like these," he said.

Belnick's company is now completely run by his stepfather, but all major decisions still go through him. Similarly, if Belnick is thinking about an important decision, he discusses it with his stepfather.

For Belnick, being a business student and a businessman is a somewhat unique combination.

"I'm in Decision Science right now and a lot of that class is talking about decisions which I've had happen," he said.

People who know Belnick emphasize his significant talent with computers and impressive entrepreneurial skills.

But Mandel said Belnick is not an overachiever or a perfectionist, but rather seems to have found his niche.

Glazer agreed, adding that Belnick is extremely ambitious and has "a great business mind."

"In my entire life I've never met anybody like him," he said. "He's brilliant, he's mature beyond his years, he's incredibly humble, and he's just a nice, nice kid."