Maya Penn was only 14 when she launched her eco-friendly handmade clothing and accessories. But that wasn’t her first experience being an entrepreneur, she had been working on She is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, artist, and eco-designer. Recently she gave a TED talk about her entrepreneurial itch and the path she took to go where she is […]
Bella Weems was 14 when she turned her passion for handcrafting locket necklaces and bracelets into a business. She initially began the business as a way to save up for a car. By the time she was turning 16, her custom jewelry startup went from a small project into a multi-million dollar direct-sales machine. Her […]
Boyan Slat is a young Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who creates technologies to solve societal problems. He is the CEO/founder of The Ocean Cleanup, which develops advanced systems to rid world’s oceans of plastic. Instead of going after the plastic, Boyan devised a system though which, driven by the ocean currents, the plastic would concentrate itself, […]
Mark Zuckerberg, the Founder-CEO of Facebook began working on “The Facebook” while a university undergraduate at Harvard, however his entrepreneurial and innovator roots stemmed a few years before then when he was working on one of his first projects, “ZuckNet” – an in-house messaging platform. Mark always had the entrepreneurial and tinker/inventor itch. Looking to […]
Elon Musk, the dreamer and serial entrepreneur who is making his dreams a reality. Well before his Space Adventures with SpaceX and electric/solar endeavors with Tesla – and even well before his PayPal success, he was already an ambitious entrepreneur. Elon spent his early childhood with his brother Kimbal and sister Tosca in South Africa, and […]
