Chase Gallagher and CMG Landscaping
Chase Gallagher is not unlike many of us. At a very young age of 13, he decided he wanted to make some money. What did he go and do? What many of us did when we were younger; He went and mowed lawns. During his time doing yardwork for tips from neighbors, Chase realized that…
Ben Pasternak
Ben Pasternak is an Australian born entrepreneur who continues to push the bounds of innovation and be an inspiration to all young entrepreneurs. At a young age, Ben started experimenting with creating mobile apps. By the time he was a teenager he had already launched Impossible Rush and Impossible Dial. These two games quickly climbed…
Kyle and Keith Young – Restoring Cars in the Street
Most people fix cars in a garage, but as reported in a Butler Eagle article, Butler, PA, brothers Kyle and Keith Young have created an enterprise restoring Mustangs in the street. The Young brothers hunt down Fox body Mustangs in their spare time, which were built from 1979 until 1993. They then use their modest…
Adam Kall, Austin Morris – Kall Morris Inc.
In 2019 Gen-z entrepreneurs Adam Kall and Austin Morris started Kall Morris Inc. Instead of focusing creativity on their business name they aimed it at a solution for outer space. KMI is based out of Marquette, Michigan which has a history and culture of space innovation. Morris and Kall met in college, but it wasn’t…
Tanner Maddocks – Agape Energy
Tanner Maddocks is the 21-year-old founder of Agape Energy. Agape Energy is an energy drink rooted in Christian values and based in Pennsylvania. He prayerfully started his brand idea in September of 2025. Maddocks saw that almost all energy drink cans depicted some demonic creature or death. He decided to change this and use…
The “Beaded Blondes”
The Beaded Blondes is a company owned by Lauren Schwing, her mother Lisa, and sister Lexi. They sell jewelry that is beaded with different shiny colors. The unique story behind these entrepreneurs is that they started with hand-written string-beaded rings in their parents’ dining room and initially sold them on Etsy. But then it grew…
Noé Vandamme- Bruges Belgian Bistro
Noé Vandamme is a food entrepreneur from Belgium. Noé likes eating and making waffles. When Noé came to the United States, he realized that there wasn’t any breakfast place that sells unique mini waffles. When Noé was born in 2003, his dad started to make these mini waffles dipped in chocolate right in their kitchen…
Alexandr Wang – Scale AI
From a college dropout to one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the world, Alexander Wang’s embrace of AI has changed his life in ways he never could have imagined. Alexander Wang is the son of two Chinese immigrant weapons physicists and grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, where the U.S. developed the worlds…
Resurgence
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…