Mr Fallah moved from Iran to Australia as a nine-year-old and both his parents have PhDs. He learned basic computer coding when he was "five or six" in Iran and remembered being shocked when in 2015 former prime minister Tony Abbott rejected the idea of Australian kids being taught computer coding in primary schools. Mr Fallah remembers being surprised, given his education. Mr Abbott has since changed his tune. "I remember as a kid learning to code and it taught me the basics of computer logic that sort of grounded me for the rest of my life. "It's kind of like music. If you learn it properly from the beginning, you can work your way up and computers are no different."

Now the former IT geek is one of the most-requested people when a new car is announced, a new model is launched, or when something is happening in the car industry business. Mr Fallah recently sold his caradvice.com.au website to the Nine Network for $35 million and will continue working for the business he began out of his teenage years. He admitted he wanted to buy Fairfax's drive.com.au. "Had Drive been put out to tender, we would have 100 per cent made a bid for it," he said. The car website was not Mr Fallah's first business. He had plenty of failures before finding the right product for the internet age he was born into.

"I started my first business when I was nine or 10," he said. It was an internet site for which he wrote about bands and wrote reviews. "We wrote about bands like the Offspring, TV shows, things like that. "In a stretch, it wasn't that much different to caradvice.com. I was writing about stuff and I was wrapping ads around it," he said. "Which was obviously well before the dotcom booms of the 2000s.

"And I was making $300 to $400 a month, which as a 10-year-old kid was quite interesting." As a student at Indooroopilly high school, Mr Alborz had a feeling computer coding education would be important. He wasn't good at maths and he wasn't gifted at English. "But I was very good at computers," he said. "I could make things happen on a computer with a keyboard.

"And it was pretty obvious earlier on that if I was ever going to be anything, it was going to have to be digital," he said. Mr Fallah said he initially felt unqualified to write about cars because he was not a mechanic. "But we stated writing reviews for people who were buying cars," he said. "Not for the car fanatics." What does he now think about electric cars?

Given his tendency to ponder the future, Mr Fallah also told Fairfax Media he believed electric cars had moved well beyond the "gimmick" stage. "I think anyone who doesn't think that all cars will be electric within the next two decades is dreaming. "There is talk of Germany banning the internal combustion engine by 2030. Well, that is not too far away. That's 15 years. "The age of fossil fuel cars is over. There is no doubt in my mind and I don't think anyone who is educated in the automotive process would think otherwise." Like this story? Be our friend on Facebook.