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Kleinert started his first business at 15 and never went to college, and now runs marketing firm Kleinert Ventures for bestselling authors and startups.
Alex Jekowsky founded Ulyngo, rated a top-10 eCommerce startup by LAUNCH Festival in 2016, and was Global Student Entrepreneur of the year for Orange County.
Waseem Shabout, a 20 year old user experience designer at Babson College, co-founded Jinn Tech, a software development firm helping founders grow.
Silvia Li, who built the largest publication on Medium, now works at the XQ Institute, a national nonprofit leading a movement to rethink high schools.
Sasha Boussina founded Marin Soccer Academy at 17 and is now founder and CEO of Excelsis Labs, a digital agency focused on app development.
Emang Rabogadi, 19, from Gaborone, Botswana, founded Stars Revealed to help young people act on their goals and motivates millennials on social media.
The co-founders of Sinolife Media and Consulting, started in 2009 by Jonathan Fenni Walters of Southwest Atlanta for artist management and small businesses.
Luke Faulconer, a 22 year-old entrepreneur from Kansas City, is CMO of My Cape, Inc., founder of the nonprofit Troolu and a real estate investor.
Hannah Milward, a nurse from New Zealand, co-created a personal safety tool that serves workers at risk and vulnerable people around the world.
Gail Coppinger, a former chef who ran Shorty's Golden Point Produce, shares why she decided to build a distillery at the age when most people retire.
As a military wife and mom, Esther built her agency Esther Marie Creative and now offers a Virtual Assistant training program and internship community.
Danny, a college dropout and former fry-cook now living in York, Pennsylvania, runs Adcension Pro, a Facebook Ad agency that helps businesses generate leads.
Darsh Thanki of Calgary founded WebMotion Studios, an agency that builds responsive websites and Adwords campaigns, and co-founded RafikiMedia.
Katie Melissa from Carmel, California put college on hold and grew her e-commerce business to 30k monthly gross sales, and shares her marketing tips.
Grant Wise, a serial entrepreneur from Rogers, Arkansas, moved from the construction industry into real estate and founded Real Estate Marketing University.
Yoel J Gonzalez, a self taught UI/UX designer, photographer and entrepreneur from Miami, shares how he became an entrepreneur and approaches design.
Rafi Chowdhury from Dhaka, Bangladesh, founder of Chowdhury's Digital and co-founder of myCampusHacks, helps companies grow revenue through traffic generation.
Jordan French, a five-time start-up entrepreneur and biomedical engineer who worked on NASA's Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, joined robotics startup BeeHex.
Ishan Goel, a full time student, youth marketer and photographer, owns three companies and has been featured in Forbes and Business Insider.
UCLA junior Vikash Singh founded Project DataREACH to apply machine learning to medicine in developing nations and researches at Cedars Sinai.
Tanner Cook, a serial advanced technology entrepreneur who worked at a nuclear fusion startup, is now using AI to change the way we deal with trash.
Aldrin Ryan Lupisan, a UC Irvine environmental engineering student, co-founded Closed Loop Plastics to turn plastic waste into 3D printing filament.
William Amos, a UC Irvine environmental engineering student and Brower Youth Award recipient, talks about Closed Loop Plastics and becoming an entrepreneur.
Maddy Corbin wrote her first business plan at 10 and ran a growing company by high school. How she turned Instagram into a real revenue channel.
Rob Fajardo, founder of Leave Normal Behind and host of LNB Tv, is an advisor to the social impact accelerator Fownders and a contributor for Influencive.
Mitch Hills from Brisbane, Australia shares his best advice for entrepreneurs, from falling in love with entrepreneurship over time to pushing through struggle.
Mahbod Moghadam, cofounder of Genius and Everipedia and a Stanford Law graduate, shares how he became an entrepreneur and markets his startups.
Nate Spell, the 17 year old CEO of Them Magazines from Muncie, Indiana, talks marketing, entrepreneurship and his biggest influences.
Fred Duku Silver, a speaker and President of The Shining Snowflake Initiative in Brisbane, works to give homeless and vulnerable people a lasting solution.
Zachary Dempsey, a 19 year old Canadian entrepreneur, uses influencer marketing to drive hundreds of millions of impressions per month for brands.
Azul Terronez, co-founder of the Authors Writing Academy and author of The Art of Apprenticeship, helps entrepreneurs write and publish books in 90 days.
Daniel Gefen, host of the podcast Can I Pick Your Brain? and co-founder of GetFeatured.com, shares how he started podcasting and built his influence.
Rees Vinsen, the 20-year old founder of Adduco Media Group from Auckland, leads a team of millennials influencing social media marketing in Australasia.
Brooklyn Nets player Trevor Booker is a venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur who runs his business ventures with college teammate Jonah Baize.
Kareem Ahmed Sheik, cofounder and chairman of Crivly from Kakinada, India, is building an education platform that helps people find jobs after their courses.
Adam Warr, a Cal Poly SLO business student and student pilot, shares how flying shaped him, his Boeing internship and his offer from Lockheed Martin.
Twins Larry and Perry Yu share what they learned building a 7-figure e-commerce company selling their own products on Amazon, Facebook and Shopify.
Mihir Deo, co-founder and COO of Elucify, a YCombinator backed startup, built a free crowdsourced database of business contacts for salespeople.
Mike Craddock from Nottingham started a social media agency focused on influencer marketing with £3.64 in his bank account after building his own brand.
Paul Ames runs Skye's The Limit Career Counselling in Perth, Australia, helping unhappy professionals find a career path they want and a driven mindset.
Jeremy Miller of Indianapolis, Indiana learned from a failed skateboard business and now owns a digital media agency and is a partner in two companies.
Joel Contartese, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, shares lessons from working at Shredz and why he co-created marketing company Media Monsters.
Chelann Gienger opened NUYU Juice Bar with 3 partners at 18 and launched the Entrepreneur Before 25 Podcast to inspire young entrepreneurs.
Trevor Oldham, a 20-year-old entrepreneur, co-founded Become The Lion and has written for Addicted2Success and Influencive to help millennials take charge.
Quinn Underwood, COO of food waste app FoodShare, founded his first non-profit at 15 and now leads global health think tanks and a health innovation firm.
Bhupinder Nayyar, co-founder and COO of Bameslog, explains how the free publishing site uses AI to recommend content to creators and readers.
Kyle Brost, founder of Choice Strategy Partners and CEO of Kyle Brost INTL, shares three keys to thinking strategically in business and life.
Yali Saar, CEO and co-founder of Tailor Brands, is building an automated branding agency that teaches computers to design for over 800,000 clients.
