Posts by hannasjr23

Miranda Wang and Jeanny Yao are friends who met in high school on a field trip to a waste transfer station and became inspired to help solve the problem of plastic waste. Their goal was to create high-performance materials out of recycled plastic. An example of their product is the outsole of a shoe called…

Josephine Philips is a young entrepreneur who studied physics and philosophy at King’s College, London, and had the original idea for Sojo in her senior year. Philips discovered the problem when she would be shopping for secondhand clothes, but they never fit properly. Unable to sew and not able to afford a tailor, she started…

Ben Pasternak is a young entrepreneur who started creating apps when he was only a teenager! When Pasternak was just 14, he created a game called “Impossible Rush”. When he was 15, he dropped out of high school and made another app for teenagers called “Monkey”. Finally, in 2018, Pasternak founded a company called “NUGGS”,…

Jaffry Jan Mallari was born in 1998 and exemplifies what it means to be passionate about an idea and see it through to the end. When Mallari was in high school, he loved graphic design and started to look into ways to make money off of his art. His first brand was “NGHTPRWL”, which did…

Steven Schwartz and his two friends, Cameron Zoub and Jack Sharkey are perfect examples of Gen Z entrepreneurs. In 2021, Schwartz had the idea to create an online marketplace that sold digital products. People who use this platform are able to sell all sorts of things from fitness programs to coding tools. Schwartz used incredible…

Mikaila Ulmer is a young girl who had the idea of a very successful business after getting stung twice by a bee in one week when she was four years old. After being stung, Mikaila developed an increasing wonder of bees and the importance they play in our world. While she was learning all about…