Posts by Lily Beers

Timothy Bloom has been entrepreneurial by bringing creativity and innovation to the industry of theater. He majored in political science and history at the University of Pennsylvania where he enjoyed the theater-centered Mask and Wig Club. This club provided critical exposure to the theater arts and helped to shape his career path as he later…

Her mind was fully capable but her body could not keep up with the demands; having made it through college in three years Hannah Olson then had to quit her “dream job” at a design agency because of a chronic illness. She had been diagnosed with Lyme’s disease in her sophomore year of college and…

Putting to action the words of a professor who said, “If you can’t find a job, go out and make your own,” a small team of Gen-Z-ers became entrepreneurs by starting a marketing consultancy company in their senior year of college while Covid hit job markets hard. Their shared birth year of 1998 became the…

A boy’s young aptitude for math and computer programing sets the stage for him to become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at age 24. Alexandr Wang is a second generation American; he made a pivotal decision at age 19 to drop out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to co-found a start-up, Scale AI,…

Turning a want into a company, Zandra Cunningham (at age 9) started a cosmetics/skin-care brand, Zandra Beauty. Miss lip-balm-enthusiast was told that if she wanted more lip balm she needed to make it herself because her father was not going to buy her more. So, she began experimenting with recipes; this has blossomed into a…

At age 11 and 9 Tommy and Matthew End started a YouTube channel, “That’s Amazing,” that has grown to have a net worth of about $3 million. Revenues are largely from ads, brand partnerships, and merchandise. Hitting up the family-friendly trick shot niche, “That’s Amazing” hit its first notable success in 2016 (four years after…