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Now displaying: January, 2017
Jan 30, 2017

Ryan is the founder and CEO of Newchip, a FinTech startup reinventing the financial landscape to bring exciting investment opportunities in emerging companies to small investors, new investors and millennials. He created Newchip as a way to make wealth and investing more accessible to the masses, while also specifically targeting people his own age - millennials. 

Jan 23, 2017

Ross is a full time real estate entrepreneur who made a life changing decision two and a half years ago to drop out of college, move from New York to Houston and quit his bartending job to create a real estate business. He did his first fix and flip two months into getting started and two and a half years later he has already done fifty fix and flips and built a solid team that is growing rapidly. He has also raised millions of dollars in private capital to buy deals. 

Jan 16, 2017

This week we have a special episode featuring a conversation between my good friend Stephen Olmon, my brother in law Auren O'Connell and myself. We talk about the big questions and thoughts you should keep in mind when trying to decided if college is right for you or not. Enjoy!

Jan 9, 2017

Mehak is the founder of Jamocha Media, a digital marketing agency that works primarily with early stage tech companies. Her firm specializes primarily in user acquisition and growth marketing. Before the launch of that company Mehak made YouTube videos on her channel "whatthemehak" where she documented her transition into college. Now she has transitioned her channel into daily vlogs and she makes videos about what it's like to be a young entrepreneur.

Jan 2, 2017

Anthony Zhang is 21 years old and he is the cofounder and CEO of EnvoyNow, a student-only-for-delivery app on college campuses. He dropped out in the beginning of 2016 in the middle of his junior year at the University of Southern California. Today, EnvoyNow is in 15 markets and employs over 1000 college students nationwide.

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