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I went for a ride with the 25-year-old millionaire media CEO who drives super cars for a living - and still lives with his parents

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Car Throttle

Adnan with the Audi R8 V10 Plus.

UK-based Adnan Ebrahim founded Car Throttle from his bedroom as a student in 2009. Now his company - dubbed "BuzzFeed for cars" -generates 20 million page views per month and controls the largest car-based YouTube channel in the world, with more than 800,000 subscribers.

Ebrahim may still be 25-years-old and living in his parents' house in the suburbs, but after three rounds of funding from big name investors, including high-profile VC Eileen Burbidge from Passion Capital, he's the majority shareholder in a "profitable" business worth "well into the single digit millions," that is "shooting for eight figures next year."

He works 16-hour-shifts, but has still found time to party with Formula 1's Lewis Hamilton and skater Tony Hawk. UK Prime Minister David Cameron even invited him to 10 Downing Street where he hung out with Alibaba founder and CEO Jack Ma.

Ebrahim's social journalism model, which gets 99% of its content from users and only 1% from its internal editorial team, is perhaps prophetic of the future of many more media companies in the digital age. And he's looking to expand his business by creating more communities, focused around different areas of interest that bring people together.

He's got plenty to say about the future of media and his high own high-speed lifestyle, so Business Insider decided to interview Ebrahim from inside a supercar, as the young CEO did his best to tear through London, barely hiding his frustration at the grid-locked streets.