Meet the 21-year-old media exec who wants TikTok shows to be taken seriously

Tech Insider : Business, Economy
Rowan Winch
Rowan Winch cofounded Fallen Media at TKage.

Sydney Bradley

This 16-year-old refused a $300,000 offer to drop out of high school and now runs his own AI company

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Rudrojas Kunvar
Rudrojas Kunvar built Evion, an AI farm tool, while in high school.

Rudrojas Kunvar

I was Facebook's youngest engineer at 17. I left Meta at a moment when AI's lead can change every few months.

Tech Insider : Business
Michael Sayman
Michael Sayman

Michael Sayman

Young founders share 12 pitch decks that raised millions in the AI boom

Tech Insider : Business
Ditto cofounders Eric Liu and Allen Wang. Courtesy of Ditto
Ditto cofounders Eric Liu and Allen Wang. Courtesy of Ditto

Courtesy of Ditto

I founded an AI startup while still in high school. I'm now 22 and have raised over $2M — I have no regrets about skipping college.

Tech Insider : Business, Environment, Technology
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Ishraq Khan.

Courtesy of Ishraq Khan

Bollywood dance teammates raised $5.3 million for their Y Combinator AI startup. Read their pitch deck.

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Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada, standing in front of a white wall, wearing dark shirts.
Orange Slice cofounders Vihaar Nandigala and Kishan Sripada.

Dan St. Louis

How a dating app got a spot on 'Shark Tank' — and scored a $200K investment from Alexis Ohanian and Kendra Scott

Tech Insider : Business
KATE SIELER, SAMANTHA MARTIN SHARK TANK —
Kate Sieler and Samantha Martin cofounded the dating app Left Field and appeared on a recent episode of ABC's "Shark Tank."

Disney/John Fleenor

This 24-year-old founded a sneaker wholesale company that made $40 million in sales revenue last year — here's how he did it

Tech Insider : Economy, Business, Sports
Oscar Rachmansky sitting next to window with city in background.
Oscar Rachmansky

Bryan Toro

This 17-year-old wrote the ultimate ELI5 for coding

Tech Insider : Business, Technology
Aryan Poduri
Aryan Poduri authored "GOAT Coder."

Aryan Poduri

Silicon Valley is raising billions to develop wearable AI products. These 15-year-olds built theirs for under $100.

Tech Insider : Business
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge.
Akhil Nagori, Evann Sun, and Lucas Shengwen Yen at the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge.

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