Braigo
While in 8th grade and at the age of 3 a young kid in San Diego named Shubham Banerjee saw an advertisement asking for donations to the blind. This left him to wonder how blind people read books and when he asked his parents there response was to google it. After learning how braille works…
Ben Nowack- Reflect Orbital
Ben Nowack is a former SpaceX intern turned entrepreneur who is the founder and CEO of reflect orbital. Reflect orbital is a company that is focused on developing satellites that reflect light from the sun onto earth at night so that solar farms can get light after dark so that they can work all night…
Josh Feinsilber
Whilst many young students are still figuring out what they want to do, Josh Feinsilber had already made his own unique mark in the area of educational technology. Josh is the founder of Gimkit, a platform that utilizes a game-style engagement with classroom learning. Feinsilber’s story is a quintessential example of a young entrepreneur in…
Alina Morse – Zolli Candy
Alina Morse is a young entrepreneur born in 2005. She is the founder of a company called Zolli Candy. At age seven she had identified a problem that human face with eating candy. Her father had said to her that sugar will cause harm to her teeth. She wondered why people couldn’t make something that…
Rachel Zietz- Gladiator Lacrosse
Rachel Zietz was a high performing lacrosse athlete even from a young age. Zietz played at Princeton for all four years. She broke a net one time during a backyard practice session when she was thirteen and it sparked her idea to create a more durable net. Zietz realized the need for better lacrosse equipment.…
Teen Hustl-Jack Bonneau
You really can’t start too young. At least, that’s the mentality Jack Bonneau has brought to the entrepreneurship sphere. Starting his first business (Jack’s Stands and Marketplaces) as a 9-year-old, he pitched on Shark Tank at 10 and holds the record for the show’s youngest male contestant to date. At 14, though, he pivoted to…
Alana Andrews-SWEY
At only 8 years old, Alana Andrews was diagnosed as a prediabetic. Frightened by this diagnosis, Andrews vowed to live a healthier lifestyle in order to combat the diagnosis. She played tennis, ran track, and began to research and become greatly interested in nutrition. A major issue she found with sports nutrition had to do…
Realigning The Vision
Rebecca Rosenberg, age 26, is a young and innovative thinker. At the age of 17 she realized that the world of technology was far behind in its ability to assist people with visual impairments. Rosenberg was diagnosed, at only a few months old, with oculocutaneous albinism. This visual impairment causes a lack of visual clarity…
Celine Chai – NinetyEight
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…
Palmer Luckey
Palmer Luckey is a visionary American entrepreneur whose groundbreaking work has reshaped both virtual reality and defense technology. Born in 1992 in Long Beach, California, Luckey was homeschooled and developed a passion for electronics at an early age. At just 16, after upgrading old video game consoles to make them mobile, he started collecting bulky…