Lucy Guo: The Mind Behind Scale AI
Lucy Guo, the daughter of two Chinese immigrant parents, was born in California in 1994. Her parents were both electrical engineers, sparking her curiosity in technology and the science. In her early teenage years, she was already working on coding projects such as developing bots for her favorite mobile game, Neopet, so that she could…
Aidan Gomez
Aidan Gomez is a young entrepreneur in the AI field. He is the CEO and co-founder of Cohere. Cohere focuses on the enterprise side of AI. He first gained attention with a research paper he wrote in 2017 called “Attention Is All You Need.” His paper became the base for what he built. It was…
Elena Bonvicini – Founder of EB Denim
Since her time at USC, Elena Bonvicini has been selling denim. She turned her hobby into a worldwide direct-to-consumer business. EB Denim has landed deals with Revolve, Selfridges, Fred Segal, and Bergdorf Goodman. Bonvicini also has celebrity fans including Kylie Jenner, Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Bella Hadid. Growing up, Bonvicini’s grandma took her to…
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream – Ben Van Leeuwen
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream was started by Ben Van Leeuwen, his brother Pete, and his business partner Laura. After raising about $60,000 in family and friend funds, they started in an old used UPS truck that they personally fixed up and painted yellow. Even in reflection Ben says he would rather Bootstrap his business than…
Isabella Rose Taylor
Isabella Rose Taylor was interested in painting at a young age. She had started painting when she was 3 and started selling her works at the age of 8. She sold her paintings in an eminent gallery in Dallas Texas. She had founded her clothing brand, IsabellaRoseTaylor, which is a young women’s contemporary line. Isabella…
Demi Guo
One young entrepreneur that has done something truly innovative in the area of the video industry is Demi Guo. Demi Guo is a co-founder and the CEO who helped develop the startup Pika which is an app that uses AI to help generate and aid in the making of short-form content. Demi is a Harvard…
Danny Cole
Danny Cole is a young and rising artist who created the famous imaginative art world known as ‘Creature World’. Danny works in many different mediums in art, ranging from paint and installations to even fashion. Born in New Jersey, Danny began making and imagining his dreamlike world from a young age. He describes wrapping himself…
Hannah Olson – Chronically Capable
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…
Silas Adekunle: The Tech Wizard
Silas Adekunle is a Nigerian born British entrepreneur that has built some of the most advanced robots of the past decade. From an early age Adekunle has always been infatuated by the idea of building, especially building robots. He was born in Nigeria and eventually moved to the UK, which is where he grew up.…