How a 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout lured some of Meta's brightest minds to join her AI math startup

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Carina Hong, wearing a green collar shirt and smiling indoors in front of a brick wall and some plants.
Axiom Math founder Carina Hong.

Courtesy of Axiom Math

I'm 22 and worth $25 million. I don't regret sacrificing sleep, friendships, and college parties to get here.

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Emil Barr sits reclined in a chair, wearing a black suit.
Emil Barr, who is a multi-millionaire at age 22.

Olga Polo/Olga Polo

A 14-year-old won $25,000 for origami. He discovered a pattern that can hold 10,000 times its own weight, he says.

Tech Insider : Business, Travel
Miles Wu of New York City won the 2025 Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge
Miles Wu, 14, from New York City, has been folding origami for over six years.

Society for Science

Meet the 21-year-old former MrBeast staffer building an AI startup to help creators make viral videos

Tech Insider : Business, Economy, Technology
Palo cofounders Shivam Kumar (30) and Jay Neo (21).
Palo cofounders Shivam Kumar (30) and Jay Neo (21).

Jack Willingham

I'm a female solo founder of an AI startup. It can be lonely, and I have to work hard to be taken seriously, but it's given me mental resilience.

Tech Insider : Business
Annie Liao
Annie Liao says it would be nice to have a cofounder to share the highs and lows with.

Annie Liao

These 20-year-olds have grown their AI note-taking app for students by 5 million users in 6 months

Tech Insider : Business
Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan
Turbo AI cofounders Rudy Arora and Sarthak Dhawan.

Turbo AI

I quit college at 21 to run my AI company. Sacrifices like working up to 80-hour weeks while I had cancer were worth it.

Tech Insider : Business
David Kobrosky
David Kobrosky dropped out of his studies at the University of Michigan to start Intros AI.

Courtesy of Sam Goldin

The YouTuber behind the Timothée Chalamet look-alike contest is launching a marketing startup. Here are the details.

Tech Insider : Business
Anthony Potero and Talia Schulhof founded Pufferfish, a new marketing company working with brands on viral stunts.
Anthony Potero and Talia Schulhof founded Pufferfish, a new marketing company working with brands on viral stunts.

CJ Sanciangco; Pufferfish

Two Gen Z founders who raised $1.25 million for their AI startup share their pro tips for landing funding

Tech Insider : Business
Aidan Guo and Julian Windeck
Attention Engineering cofounders, Aidan Guo, 19, and Julian Windeck, 23, say: Move to SF.

Attention Engineering

Two teen founders dropped out of school and raised $3 million out of Y Combinator. Read their pitch deck.

Tech Insider : Business
Georges Casassovici and Mathieu Rihet, standing in front of a white wall with their arms crossed.
Novoflow cofounders Georges Casassovici and Mathieu Rihet.

Novoflow

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