Vic Blends
Vic Blends is a barber from North Carolina who started cutting hair after finishing high school in 2017. He went to beauty school to get his license and began sharing his journey online. Over time, he built a huge following on social media by posting videos of haircuts, giving free cuts to homeless people, and…
Mosiah bridges
Mosiah Bridges is a young man who, at the age of nine, had an idea although he wasn’t exactly sure what he wanted it to be. By the age of eleven, he had developed the idea into a bow tie business. He brought this idea to Shark Tank on ABC, and because of not only…
Blog Post #2
Tiffany Zhong, the CEO of Noplace, became the youngest VC (venture capital) at 18. Noplace is a social app that “aims to restore the nostalgic feel of early social networks like Myspace”. In short, it is a text only social app that has become quite popular among Gen Z. According to TechCrunch, the app is…
Kelsey Ang – SHIFT Dance
Hong Kong native Kelsey Ang, born in 1997, is a Gen Z dancer, choreographer, educator, and creative director. After an extensive period of training in both Hong Kong and the Philippines, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue a dual degree in Dance and Marketing from Loyola Marymount University. Her business, SHIFT Dance, is designed…
The entrepenurial trait of Go-Getterness
While researching Gen Z entrepreneurs, one of the more common things I noticed was that most of the entrepreneurs are not folks who like to stay in school. Some of the most successful I’ve run into didn’t even graduate high school, like in the case of Ben Pasternak. Ben dropped out of high school and…
Sofia Overton- Wise Pockets
Sofia Overton is a perfect example of a seemingly small and boring idea, and turning it into a large scale business. When she was just 13 years old, she came up with the idea that she would later base her business around. She wanted to make a solution to the problem that there is a…
Zandra A. Cunning- Zandra Beauty
How old were you when you remember having your first great idea? Did you ever think that it could turn into a million dollar brand? Well, Zandra was nine and she didn’t know what this idea could do; but it did some incredible things. Zandra A. Cunning is a twenty one year old from Buffalo,…
Me and the Bees Lemonade
It all started when Mikaila was four years old and was stung by a bee. Ever since that moment bees have been a huge part of her life. Inspired by her grandmother’s original recipe, Mikaila decided to implement her own rendition of the recipe by removing flaxseed and instead using honey. In 2010, Mikaila demonstrated…
Alina Morse – Zollipops
Born in America in 2005, Alina Morse started Zollipops at just 10 years old in 2015. One time when she was 9 years old, she went on a bank errand with her father and was given a lollipop. This got her thinking about how sugary normal lollipops and other candy are, and how they are…
Emma Chamberlain – Chamberlain Coffee
Emma Chamberlain, a well-known Gen Z youtuber and influencer, added entrepreneurship to her name when she started her business, Chamberlain Coffee, in December of 2020. Emma started her company after gaining inspiration from her hometown cafes in San Francisco. She always loved the atmosphere of cafes and coffee quickly became a part of her daily…